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Friday, March 22, 2013

This Friday's incongruous but funny cartoons

Before I begin, let me thank the online magazine The Week for such a fine selection of cartoons, some of which you will find below.

Newton's cradle (which illustrates conservation of momentum) and the news are combined by Steve Sack in "The domino effect:"

image: cartoon by Steve Sack, "The domino effect"

Gary McCoy postulates how a pope who is friendly and willing to to wade into crowds to greet people might handle security in his cartoon, "Pope of the people:"

 image:  cartoon by Gary McCoy, "Pope of the people"

Since the GOP's loss to Obama, many are pronouncing the party dead; Mike Luckovich takes the analogy one step further in "An honest reflection."

image: cartoon by Mike Luckovich, "An honest reflection"

There's a fair amount of discussion lately about Americans' love of guns and the American gun culture.  Bill Day's image below, titled "Build-in," pretty much sums it up.

image: cartoon by Bill Day, "Built-in"

Returning to the combination of science (or more accurately mathematics) and cartoon, here's Tom Toles' combination of asymtote, train, and budget in "Chugging along.".  For a less geeky explanation of this word, try this reference at Wordnik.

image: cartoon by Tom Toles, "Chugging along"

Such are today's jewels.

-- Marge

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