Cartoon Saturday

It's the last day of March. Finally.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un traveled to Beijing for a meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, presumably in preparation for Kim's possible upcoming meeting with Donald Trump; in the latest Cabinet shakeup, Donald Trump replaced Veterans' Affairs director David Shulkin with Ronny Jackson, Trump's doctor ... a respected combat surgeon and military veteran, but without signifiant management expertise; retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens called for a repeal of the Second Amendment, throwing the NRA into paroxysms of delight at hearing a despised liberal hand them a gold-plated talking point; Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan for the first time since being shot in the head by Taliban militants at age 15 for advocating education for Pakistani girls; and in an attempt to put a happier face on the White House press operation, former Disney Channel teen star Caroline Sunshine was hired as a press assistant. I did not make that up.

This week, in honor of Donald Trump and the Right's fixation with fake news (defined as anything with which they do not agree, or find unflattering), we have a collection of cartoons about the news media ...

Making news channel selection easier ...

The stupid chyrons* crawling around the screen drive me crazy ... how about you? ...

And speaking of chyrons ...

There are people who distrust the media that much ...

True. Especially on Faux News ...

Summing it all up ...

Well, of course you do ...

Now this is what I call brutal and inhumane torture ...

That's how it works, isn't it? ...

Yes. Yes, they have ...

I don't know about you, but I don't know what I'd do without the cartoons to take the edge off the news.

It looks like it'll be a good, if chilly weekend here in NoVa, where we're keeping our gardening fingers crossed for the eventual arrival of spring ... at the rate we're going, probably sometime in June. Oh, well ... at least I'll have plenty of time to fix up the garden plots I won't be able to plant in for a while.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

* Or, as Dr Edward Tufte would call them, "chartjunk."