Cartoon Saturday

Who dreams up these weeks, anyhow?

An Italian judge's ruling that groping lasting less than ten seconds does not constitute sexual harassment has resulted in widespread outrage; in a major diplomatic win for President Biden and a bitter (but somehow unsurprising) loss for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Turkish president Erdogan has decided to support the accession of Sweden to membership in NATO; three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, enabling Meta to train its algorithms and to create targeted advertising to its own users and other companies; the Department of Justice announced that it will reverse an earlier decision and no longer shield Der Furor from a defamation lawsuit by New York writer E. Jean Carroll; and in New York (not Florida??), a middle-school principal used Snapchat to try to lure a 16-year-old girl to meet him in a remote location for sex — when police arrested him, he was equipped with condoms, chicken nuggets and a Grimace milkshake from McDonald’s.

With the news being so relentlessly disturbing lately, I thought a few cartoons poking fun at our news media would be a good things this week ...

Admit it - you always wondered what happens in the studio when the cameras go off ...

They're going to need more money and a bigger jar ...

I think these will work in most cases ...

It's what helps me get through the news, too ...

Uh, oh ...

That's how it is most days, isn't it? ...

It's a living ...

That's the top story pretty much every day, isn't it? ...

I guess times don't always change ...

Hell, I'm saying that NOW ...

And that's it for this edition of Cartoon Saturday ... I hope it helped you over the past week's news.

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

Bilbo