Cartoon Saturday

Just when you thought things couldn't get much worse ...

Legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin, widely respected as "The Queen of Soul," died on Thursday at the age of 76; in a direct attack against criticism of his administration by former senior officials, Donald Trump stripped former CIA director John Brennan of his security clearances, accusing him of "lying and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary;" in the Italian city of Genoa, at least 39 people were killed when a bridge collapsed, dumping dozens of cars 145 feet into a valley below; in a salacious tell-all book, former White House official Omarosa Manigault Newman accused Donald Trump of being both racist and mentally unstable, leading Trump to refer to her in a tweetstorm as a "dog" and raising questions as to exactly what her role in the Trump administration (for which she earned a salary of $179,700) had been; and a grand jury in Pennsylvania released a 900-page report which accused hundreds of priests, bishops, and other church leaders of molesting more than a thousand children over a period of decades.

If we ever needed a little humor, we need it now. How about a collection of cartoons featuring symbols ...

Such a conversion can be hard on all concerned ...

I guess math can be fun, after all ...

Murder by the numbers ...

A good pun in a cartoon can alpha lot to up the humor ratio ...

I'm not that musical one in my family, either ...

So am I ... but one has to be very careful nowadays ...

I thought I'd be more vigorous, too ...

Before alphabet soup, there was ...

A timely question ...

Well, what else is there? ...

And that's it for this week's symbolic Cartoon Saturday. I hope it helped you get over the insanity of the past week. Sorry I can't do much about what's to come.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow on Poetry Sunday. Be here.

Bilbo