Cartoon Saturday

Hold on to your hats, folks, it's going to be a heckuva year ...

Protesters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, scaling the walls and forcing the gates of the compound, as hundreds demonstrated against American airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq; in response to unusually mild conditions in Moscow, authorities trucked in loads of artificial snow to provide the right atmosphere for New Year's celebrations; the governor of West Virginia fired 34 correction officer trainees and their instructor, and suspended four other instructors without pay, after the trainees were photographed giving a Nazi salute; a town in North Carolina has ended a tradition of lowering a live possum in a plexiglas box to celebrate the new year after years of opposition by animal rights advocates; and in Houston, a woman was killed while celebrating New Year's Eve when she was struck by a falling bullet that had been fired by someone celebrating by shooting blindly into the air.

For the first Cartoon Saturday of the new year, what could be more appropriate than cartoons about the new year? ...

I'd vote for this one ...

It's how Agnes and I celebrated ... we figured 2020 was going to show up, whether we were out partying or not ...

RIP, brain cells ... at least, those that are left after three years of Der Furor ...

Wouldn't it be nice if this approach would work? ...

Mostly? ...

They'd better be easy to keep ...

You knew this one was coming, didn't you? ...

Mine, too ...

A good way to celebrate this particular new year ...

Greetings from the GOP! ...

Even snails can find something to celebrate ...

And so, Dear Friends, we have made it to the first weekend of 2020. Let us hope that the days, weeks, and months to come offer us something to laugh "ha-ha" at, rather than laugh "oh, jeez..." at. Unfortunately, I'm betting against it.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, as Poetry Sunday greets the new year.

Bilbo