Cartoon Saturday

And awaaaaaay we go ...

Donald Trump has nominated singularly unqualified (except for her Fox News pedigree and TV good looks) State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert to replace Nikki Haley as the US ambassador to the United Nations; Republicans in Wisconsin have redefined the expression "power grab" by passing legislation to limit the power and authority of Democrats to whom they lost in the November elections; Meng Wangzhou, the CFO of Chinese tech giant Huawei and the daughter of its founder, was arrested by Canadian authorities acting on a US extradition request; according to court filings submitted on Friday, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen broke election laws at the specific direction of Donald Trump; and in North Carolina, the relentless GOP drumbeat about the dangers of vote fraud appear to have been borne out ... by evidence of fraud conducted by Republican operatives.

Since the GOP has as little interest in scientific reality as it does in voting rights, I thought it might be appropriate this week to share some cartoons about scientists and their work ...

It's the only kind of science some people understand ...

Every scientist needs an assistant ..,

It's uncertain ...

Well, that makes sense ...

Well, that's pretty clear ...

Tomato, tomahto ...

Looks like a near miss would count ...

Continuing with rocket scientists ...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ...

At the intersection of music and science ...

And there you go ... a lighthearted look at science and scientists for the second Cartoon Saturday of December. 

It's going to be a very cold weekend here in NoVa, but at least it looks as if we'll miss the latest snowstorm that we'd worried about earlier in the week. It's good to have to worry only about the snow jobs coming out of the White House.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, on Poetry Sunday. See you then.

Bilbo