Cartoon Saturday

It's been another wonderful week, hasn't it? ...

Police on Thursday arrested a North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in his truck, which he had parked on the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress; chaos reigned at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where desperate Afghans who had aided US forces and international agencies mobbed the field in an attempt to escape the victorious Taliban; Republicans moved quickly to rewrite the history of their administrations' roles in creating the Afghan mess; amid surging Covid infections and overwhelmed hospitals, Florida's three major school districts are defying Governor Ron DeSantis's absolute ban on mask mandates; and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police responding to reports of a dead body washed up on a sandbar in the Arkansas River found a man suntanning, albeit in an unusual place.

This week, in honor of the hysterical news coverage of the situation in Afghanistan, I thought a collection of cartoons about the news and news media would be appropriate ...

It's what they tell each other when the cameras are off ...  

Wait a minute ... what was the Focus of Outrage du Jour? ...

Only up 2 and 7/8ths??? ...

Press Secretaries learn News Conference Management in the first year of Spin School ...

Good advice, especially if you get all your "news" from Fox or OANN ...

Not just in election years ...

I think this is where we're headed ...

I've always wondered about the uses of the Seven Deadly Sins ...

I'd bet this is pretty accurate ...

Why, indeed? ...

It's been an awful week, but I've tried to do my part to help get you past it. I hope I've succeeded, if only a little bit.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts coming tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday takes an entry from lyrics by Leonard Cohen. See you then.

Bilbo