Cartoon Saturday

Whatever hopes you may have had that August will be better than July may as well be packed away for possible use in future months ...

Mathematician and satirical lyricist Tom "The Masochism Tango" Lehrer died at age 97; the Senate voted - on party lines, of course - to confirm Der Furor's controversial pet lawyer Emil Bove to a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge; the Republican-dominated Texas legislature has redrawn the map for the state’s U.S. House districts, carving up five Democratic districts so that Republicans would be likely to win them in future elections; in an attempt to give the plain and tawdry White House a grander, more Versailles-ish air, Der Furor announced that, having paved over the Rose Garden, he will replace all or part of the East Wing of the White House with a $200 million, 90,000 square foot ballroom, supposedly paid for by Der Furor and other donors; and in Turkey, a 38 year old British man died at an Istanbul clinic, apparently of complications from a hair transplant.

This week, a collection of cartoons about letters, numbers, and other symbols ... because, why not?

For all you English Literature majors ...

I think she's in for a long wait ...

Uh, oh ...

When it's time to tell the kids about the colons and the semicolons ...

Busted!

If you know, you know ...

It's one of those 50 ways ...

Uh, oh ...

What tomfoolery, indeed ...

True ...

Have a good day and a great weekend, and come back tomorrow for Poetry Sunday and Shel Silverstein's poem about smart kids. More thoughts then.

Bilbo