Cartoon Saturday

It's the first Saturday in June ... 2015 is just about half over, if you can believe it. Oy.

In China, hundreds of people were killed when a cruise ship sank in a storm on the Yangtze river; a Florida hospital is under investigation after it was discovered that it had three times the national average of infant deaths during surgery; US authorities are blaming China for a massive theft of personal data of millions of current and former federal employees; a senior official of the National Weather Service helped write the job description and set the salary for a consulting position with the agency, then retired and took the job, coming back to the office doing the same work he'd done as a government employee ... but with a $43,200 raise; and in Georgia, a monumentally stupid dumbass carried an AR-15 automatic rifle with a 100-round drum magazine into Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, and when reminded by police that his action, although legal under Georgia law, had made many people fear for their safety, replied "People's fears are not my responsibility," before threatening to sue the airport if police bothered him.

If the first half of the year is ending like this, I'm not sure I want to know what's coming in the second half.

This week, we once again dip into the bottomless well of ghastly puns for our collection of theme cartoons ...

Do you suppose he was spayed or circumsized ... ?

My English-teacher friends like Kathy and Melissa will appreciate this one ...

It's as good a de ... scription as any ...

Sometimes you need to trust those odd feelings ...

Always read the signs carefully ...

I've started looking for these, too ...

I'd have thought the hieroglyphic character for "politician" would have been in there somewhere ...

Well, if we're using more bio-fuels, it's only a matter of time before we start using other bio stuff ...

It pays to be in shape if you want to make a good showing ...

And finally for this week, I've been in lots of meetings like this ...

And that's how it is for the first Cartoon Saturday of June, 2014. I hope it helped you get over the past week and get ready for the week to come.

I'm headed outside to mow the lawn, which is just about up to the second story windows after all our recent rain, and then we'll see about whether or not I can do a little relaxing before Monday rolls around again. Stranger things have happened.

Have a good day. Come back tomorrow for Poetry Sunday ... more thoughts then.

Bilbo