Cartoon Saturday

Have you checked to make sure no one has eaten your pets?

Eight people were killed and nearly 3,000 wounded on Tuesday when hundreds of pagers blew up across Lebanon, followed by another wave of exploding walkie-talkies on Wednesday, apparently as part of a coordinated attack on members of the Islamic militant group Hizbollah; music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested this week on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution; the body of a man suspected in the Kentucky highway shooting spree last week has been found in a remote Kentucky wilderness; the Tupperware Company, which produced plastic storage containers frequently used to protect leftovers while they rot in the back of the refrigerator, has filed for bankruptcy; and in Balch Springs, Texas, three lanes of southbound traffic on Interstate 635 were shut down Wednesday afternoon because of alligator and chicken remnants strewn across the roadway ... in a related development, members of the House Freedom Caucus traveled to Balch Springs to examine new ways of bringing legislative activity to a halt.

This week, a look at how we get (and survive) our news ...

Sometimes the monster under the bed is preferable to the one running for office ... 

The old-fashioned town crier has been replaced by the digital shouter ...

It's interesting that his name rhymes with "insanity" ...

Oui! ...

Not everywhere, but too often ...

It's not easy to cope with the mental whiplash ...

I could OD on this one ...

This is an old one, but it underlies much of the appeal of Der Furor's campaign coverage ...

But it won't sell as much of the sponsors' products ...

I sometimes wonder that, myself ...

And that's the way it is (as the famous Walter Cronkite would have said) for this week ... I hope you enjoyed this little poke at the news media.

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

Bilbo