Cartoon Saturday

It's the last Cartoon Saturday for the miserable month of March, 2019. I thought it would never get here ...

Beginning on April 3rd, a new law comes into effect in the small southeast Asian kingdom of Brunei that will punish homosexual sex and adultery with death by stoning ... Mike Pence will lead a new presidential commission to determine how that law can be applied in the United States; British Prime Minister Theresa May offered to resign her position if the UK Parliament would approve any of eight different options for a Brexit deal ... she's still in the job and Parliament has rejected everything but the Magna Carta*; Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was forced to revoke her cancellation of funding for the Special Olympics after the move proved too mean-spirited even for the present administration; two people, including a tourist who was taking pictures, died at the Grand Canyon in two separate incidents; and a former contractor for the National Security Agency, described as a “hoarder” by his lawyer, pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally retaining a huge volume of government secrets at his house.

This week, in "honor" of all the attorneys on all sides who've spent the last few days foaming at the mouth on television over the outcome of the Mueller Investigation, I thought some cartoons about lawyers would be appropriate.

I'd long suspected that this was the final step in the education and preparation of many lawyers ...

Somehow I just can't see a lawyer as a superhero ...

Nowadays, it's a valid defense ...

It's a valid point ...

This makes perfect sense when you consider that God Almighty had Ten Commandments, and the US Legal Code has 50 "Titles" and consists of more than 23,000 pages of text ... 

This is pretty much how it seems any more, isn't it? ...

I'd love to have been on that jury ... 

If nothing else, the Mueller Investigation gave us the marvelous term perjury trap ... which is lawyer-speak for a devastating question the defendant really doesn't want to have to answer ...

Nowadays, the truth is what is shouted first, loud enough, and long enough to exhaust everyone into believing it's actually the truth ...

The Mueller Report in a nutshell ...

And the gavel falls on the last collection of cartoons for the month. I hope you enjoyed them, and they gave you a much-needed perspective on the legal profession. 

Have a good day and a great weekend, and come back tomorrow for the last Poetry Sunday of the month ... more thoughts then.

Bilbo

* British lawmakers rejecting every attempt at a Brexit deal, but with no plan of their own for a replacement deal, sounds a lot like US Republicans relentlessly attacking the Affordable Care Act with no clue how to replace it.