Cartoon Saturday

Welcome to the first full day of the Trump administration. Be sure to uncross your fingers before they cramp.

A deadly avalanche triggered by a series of earthquakes buried a hotel in Italy, killing an unknown number of guests; a multi-story commercial building in Tehran collapsed following a fire, killing an unknown number of people and injuring more than 40; Irish pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt has been fined $100,000,000 after it raised the price of a life-saving medication used to treat infants from $40 to more than $34,000 a vial – an 85,000% increase - and prevented other firms from creating a competitive drug; President Obama ran into a storm of criticism after commuting the prison sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who was imprisoned after giving tens of thousands of highly-classified documents to Wikileaks; and both former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara have been hospitalized in Texas for acute respiratory problems.

Now that the new administration has taken control in Washington, we really need the cartoons. This week, a collection that relies on awful puns ...

I hope they have good dental insurance with tusks like those ...

You had to see this one coming ...

Why, yes ... yes, I am ...

Everybody's a critic ...

Every business has its own take on the restroom door signs ...

Sometimes a hitchhiker gets really lucky ...

I'm sure he'll look ... natural ...

I've had this one for a while, and finally have a chance to use it ...

It is only by the merest chance that this cartoon follows the previous one* ...

Good to the last relic ...

And that's it for the first Cartoon Saturday of the presidency of Donald John Trump. I'm looking ahead to the future with hope, but with a great deal of trepidation, which Mr Trump's inaugural speech did not help to ease. I hope he succeeds and I wish him well ... but I am gravely afraid for the next four years and what they show both of our new president and of We, The People.

Have a good day. Come back tomorrow for Musical Sunday, when we'll revisit an old favorite that's still appropriate. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

* Extra points if you even know what a #2 pencil is.