Cartoon Saturday

And here you thought that 2023 just had to be better than 2022 ...

After an embarrassing 15 rounds of voting that ended with major concessions to far-right extremist Republicans and a shameful near fist-fight on the House floor, Kevin McCarthy was finally elected Speaker of the (Greatly Diminished) House; in Newport News, Virginia, a six-year-old elementary school student shot his teacher, sending her to the hospital with life-threatening injuries; the family of a US Capitol Police officer who died a day after the 6 January 2021 riot has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Der Furor; and in Philadelphia, traffic accident investigation was made easier by the fact that a 25-year-old driver fleeing a police chase crashed into a police car parked in front of the police station, with his car ending up on the station steps.

Let's get 2023 going with a collection of cartoons designed to put a song in our hearts, as opposed to the House of Representatives, which puts a pain in our ... well ... you know.

Tennessee Ernie Ford was singing my song ...  

For some reason, this is how everybody seems to sing the national anthem at major events ...

It works for me ...

Uh, oh ...

When you need to see a specialist ...

The Book of The King, 3:1-6 ...

Step on it, mon ...

It took long enough ...

If Otis Redding were singing today ... 

The background of one of my favorite songs ...

And that's your lyrical introduction to the new year's run of Cartoon Saturdays. Hope you enjoyed it.

Have a good day and a great weekend, and be sure to come back tomorrow for the first Poetry Sunday of 2023 ... more thoughts then.

Bilbo