Cartoon Saturday

Silly you, hoping that September would be less crazy than August ...

Continuing his efforts to cast doubt on the validity of the upcoming election, Der Furor suggested to a crowd in North Carolina that they vote twice - once by mail and once in person - to "test the system" and see if their second vote was accepted (note: it is illegal in every state to vote twice in the same election, or to encourage people to vote more than once); legendary baseball pitcher Tom Seaver died at the age of 75; House speaker Nancy Pelosi came under criticism for having her hair done in a San Francisco salon - not permitted under local Covid-19 ordinances ... a stupid thing to do that gave Der Furor and his minions another distraction from from their own hypocrisy and failure; in a Wednesday interview on CNN, Attorney General William Barr said that reports of an “epidemic of cops shooting unarmed black men" was a “false narrative”; and in (where else?) Florida, a 22-year-old man was arrested for drunk driving after crashing his Mazda into an electronic sign cautioning motorists to “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over."

This week, because - sadly - it seems very timely, a collection of cartoons about our national gun fetish, which is making demonstrations a lot more dangerous ...

Thoughts and prayers ...

It makes you wonder how people managed to hunt for tens of thousands of years without semiautomatic weapons with high-capacity magazines ...

Weird, eh? ...

Too bad there's not a placebo ...

Bandoleers of little blue pills crisscrossed on your chest don't look nearly as imposing as big iron ... 

There's a lot of misinterpretation and reinterpretation going on ...

A possible option? ...

Did you understand that, Sancho Panza? ...

Yep ...

Some rights just seem to go together, don't they? ... 

And that's it for this week. Adjust your mask and bulletproof vest for comfortable protection before going out.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Musical Sunday returns.

Bilbo