Cartoon Saturday

Can we return this week for a refund?

Disgraced former lawyer and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has been ordered by to turn over his New York penthouse apartment and 26 valuable watches in partial payment of the $153 million judgement against him in favor of two Georgia election workers he defamed; for the first time since 1976, the Washington Post has - apparently under pressure from owner Jeff Bezos - declined to endorse a candidate for president*; the Department of Justice has warned the Super PAC run by multibillionaire Elon Musk that its large cash payments to registered voters in seven swing states who sign his "petition" may be illegal under election law**; 28-year-old grizzly bear #399, the oldest known reproducing female grizzly in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and mother of 18 known cubs, was killed when struck by a car; and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a man is under arrest after attempting to strangle a woman with an American flag ... the man's lawyer is expected to argue that he thought it was okay to use the flag as a weapon because Der Furor's supporters did it when storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. 

It's time for our last Halloween-season Cartoon Saturday, and what better note to go out on than an homage to mad scientists and their long-suffering assistants?

Even mad scientists have to work their way up the ladder of madness ... 

Is it worse to be mad, annoyed, or disappointed? ...

He seems to have a better media advisor than Der Furor ...

Well, it does end in -ium ...

Show of hands ... right ...

It's always good to compromise, but not always easy ...

I can see the problem ...

He's distantly related to the popular Parisian small car - the Hatchback of Notre Dame ...

Is he board-certified? ...

Zoom works better for some people than for others ...

Let's hear it for all the mad scientists who are lining up to apply for positions in the federal government should Der Furor win the November election.

Have a good day and a great weekend, and come back tomorrow for Poetry Sunday, when Robert Burns helps us fly (by broom) into the final days before Halloween. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

* I immediately cancelled my subscription and wrote both a comment on their editorial and a very strongly worded letter to the editor. At this time in history, this failure reflects moral cowardice of the highest order.

** Ya think?