Cartoon Saturday

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

Scores of people were murdered and dozens of others wounded in massacres at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand; in an interview with Breitbart News, Donald Trump again tacitly suggested violence against his political foes, claiming that "I have tough people, but they don't play it tough until they go to a certain point and then it would be very, very bad;" British Prime Minister Theresa May continued to struggle with her government to get approval of a deal with the European Union for the British departure ("Brexit") from the Union; both houses of Congress approved a resolution to overturn Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border - a resolution Trump immediately vowed to veto*; and the US government finally caught up with the rest of the world and grounded Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 passenger aircraft following a deadly crash in Ethiopia.

This week, a look at the much-maligned but - especially nowadays - essential news media ...

No escape ...

Chyrons in history ...

The way it really works ...

The warning notices that we really need ...

True ...

One way to minimize the stress of following the news ...

I like this one better ...

It couldn't hurt ...

I wondered how that worked ...

Fox News did this already, just without the animation ...

Have a good day and a great weekend. Don't let the news get you down, as difficult as that may be. More thoughts tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday returns.

Bilbo

* He announced his intention in the shortest tweet he's ever sent ... the single word "VETO!"