Cartoon Saturday

Where on earth do we come up with weeks like these?

The Department of Justice released a nine-page memo prepared for former Attorney General William Barr, listing the reasons why Der Furor should not be charged with obstruction of justice for his efforts to derail the Mueller probe, and it was roundly ridiculed by most legal scholars; from the Department of Be Careful What You Ask For, the Justice Department bowed to pressure from howling Republicans and desperate news organizations and released the heavily-redacted (and, even so, pretty damn damning) affidavit which requested the warrant to search Mar-a-Lago for official documents illegally retained and carelessly stored by Der Furor; former Louisville police detective Kelly Goodlett, who helped falsify the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment in 2020 has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge; the Uvalde, Texas school police chief who botched the response to the deadly massacre of 21 students and teachers has (finally) been fired; and in the event you ever need to completely remove the carcass of a dead horse*, the US Department of Agriculture has published a helpful pamphlet, complete with illustrations, to help you do the job using explosives.

This week, as we move through the hot, lazy days of late summer and head for the growing darkness and cold of the winter months, I thought a few cartoons about the joy of books and reading might be appropriate.

This reminds me of some discussions at our house ...  

There are a lot of fables told as deadlines approach ...

At the rate we're going in some states, such books will be all you'll find ...

That's what I thought ...

How to explain "reading" to a child of the 21st century ...

If books came with remotes ...

Just don't use the Downward Dog-Ear ...

It'll be a problem before long in places like Texas and Florida ...

On the beach at Mar-a-Lago ...

I hope it's a really big discount ...

And that's it for this week's quasi-literary edition of Cartoon Saturday ... I hope you didn't read too much into it, ha, ha.

Have a good day and a great weekend, and come back tomorrow for Musical Sunday, when we revisit Warren Zevon's song for Der Furor. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

* The still-moving, reeking carcasses of horse's asses now serving in Congress, as well as many of those wishing to serve there, can be safely removed without the use of explosives by doing your civic duty at the ballot box in November.