Cartoon Saturday

It's the start of a new month, but the news seems to be just like the news in the last one ...

The chiefs of the nation's intelligence services delivered a summary of the threats facing the country which represented a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump's single-minded focus on migration from the south as an existential threat ... Trump responded by calling the intelligence chiefs "extremely passive and naive;" temperatures dropped to historic lows as a polar vortex pushed huge masses of frigid air from the polar regions across the country; police investigating a report of a sinkhole in Florida discovered a tunnel being dug toward a local bank, probably as part of an attempted burglary; and on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that was signed with Russia in 1987, charging that Russia has not been adhering to its terms.

This week, in honor of the horrendous cold weather that's kept us all indoors, I thought some cartoons about books and reading might be just the thing, particularly in combination with a few quilts and a mug of hot chocolate ...

Well, that's one way to make it happen ...

Tennessee Williams, updated ...

Mom must have been very proud ...

But Mrs Gray, not so much ...

I think this is how it will go if I ever get my book written ...

Good choice ...

Smile, Yorick ...

Sometimes you need a creative librarian to explain the concept ...

One of these days, I need to write a letter in which the first letter in each paragraph has grapes and angels hanging off of it ...

Sadly, this is true ...

And that's it for the first Cartoon Saturday of February, 2019 ... I hope it helped take your mind off all the craziness. Why not sit down with a good book to help keep you calm and centered?

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday takes on the concept of February.

Bilbo