Cartoon Saturday

January sucked. February sucked. March is trying very hard to suck more.

Der Furor's war of choice and distraction with Iran was off to a flying start as three United States fighter aircraft were shot down ... by Kuwaiti air defenses; the Justice Department wants to intervene in state bar associations’ disciplinary proceedings against its lawyers, afraid that attorneys who follow questionable orders of  administration officials could be punished by legal ethics organizations and lose their ability to practice law; Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was fired by Der Furor and eased into a previously nonexistent job as "Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas," whatever that is; the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi over her role in releasing files related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associates; and in a meeting at what's left of the White House on Wednesday, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers ... in a related development, pigs flew.

Because it would take a magician to sort out the wreckage Der Furor and his cronies have made of the government and the nation (not to mention the world), I thought a collection of cartoons about magicians would be in order. And better yet, a collection of cartoons about magicians who specialize in sawing people in half, without necessarily planning for how to put them back together ...

At least it's a job unlikely to be replaced by AI any time soon ...

Stat!! ...

&%#$! paywalls ...

Solomon would approve ...

What gave it away? ...

I can relate ...

Uh, oh ...

This is going to complicate the therapy ...

Abracadabra, YAAAAHHHH! ...

Perhaps she should have suggested it sooner ...

Wouldn't it be nice if there were some magical incantation that would restore competence to our government ... or, at least, if there were magicians who fix failed tricks?

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when one of my favorite singers offers a timely tune about collateral damage. See you then.

Bilbo