We've made it through the first full week of 2022, but not without the usual dents and scrapes ...
A huge winter storm that dumped as much as two feet of snow on the eastern seaboard resulted in a huge traffic jam on Interstate 95, with hundreds of motorists stranded in snow and bitter cold for hours; on the first anniversary of the deadly Capitol insurrection of 2021, President Biden for the first time specifically called out the responsibility of Der Furor for the violence; only a single Republican - Representative Liz Cheney - chose to attend a moment of silence in honor of law enforcement officers injured or killed during the insurrection; Kazakhstan's authoritarian leader has ordered security forces to "fire without warning," escalating a violent crackdown on anti-government protests; and in Florida (where else?), a proposed new law removes the requirement for a dealer to transfer the title of a car to the buyer within 30 days ... meaning that an unscrupulous dealer can retain ownership of a car indefinitely, regardless of the sale.
For the first Cartoon Saturday of the new year, how about a salute to that far-right rallying cry of the culture wars, Mr ... or Mrs ... or just plain Potato Head ...
The best part of this one is the reaction ...
Potato Heads don't necessarily make for good undercover agents ...
Uh, oh ...
I guess they've been to mash dot com ...
It looks like he remembered the important stuff ...
Alas for what might have been ...
Busted! ...
I don't think he can be saved ...
Potato Heads go back farther than you might think ...
If you're a witness, having a Potato Head as a suspect makes the identification a bit easier ...
And there you have it - your first Cartoon Saturday for the new year, and nothing half-baked about it!
Sorry.
Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts coming.
Bilbo
Nice ones. The choking hazard could be interpreted another way.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Florida story is just un-freeking-believable.
Terrific! Especially like the first one. The peeler instead of the scythe is a nice touch.
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons? I got it as a gift at Christmas. It's organized by subject and has hundreds if not thousands of cartoons. Check it out!