Cartoons for -- guess what. Easter

Because I just signed up for membership at Daryl Cagle's The Cagle Post, "cartoons and commentary," that's where these cartoons about Easter were found.  One of the features of premium membership is "support the art form of political cartooning;" I certainly hope my $2.95/month supports more than Daryl Cagle alone.  So far I find the sign-in function sadly lacking, but maybe the servers are slow to recognize new subscribers.  Without further ado, here is today's selection.

Easter and the weather:

Randy Bish, "Snow for Easter"

Keith Tucker, "Punxsutawney Phil faces the Easter Bunny"

Easter and the Sequester:

John Darkow, Easter Sequester"

Jeff Koterba, "Easter egg roll"

Another "Easter egg roll," this one by Chip Bok

Dark cloud over Easter:

Cam Cardow, "Easter"

I know it's been shown on the news hundreds of times, but where the heck is Punxsutawney?

-- Marge

Higgs update

It was the middle of 2012 when the news exploded with reports that the Higgs boson had been discovered.  Now, more than half-a-year later, does the discovery still stand valid?

An update posted at Engadget by Sharif Sakr states "it's cool, it exists, it's not necessarily so 'exotic'."  So what was all the fuss about anyway?  A really cool video by PHD Comics (I watched it twice; you may want to watch it on YouTube.) explains it all:

This update, uploaded by 1veritasium gives even more info --

And what would Friday be here without a few cartoons? "Perspective is Everything" by David Horsey:

Another about the Higgs discovery, this one by Cam Cardow at Syndicam:

Interesting that in the two videos, one says electrons have no mass, the other says that they do have mass.  Science can be so tricky.

 -- Marge

The sky is falling! Uhm, was falling...

Now that we've survived the doomsday prediction (Mayan calendar reaches its end, world doesn't follow suit), we can relax and have a laugh about all the brouhaha.  (However, if you're a true alarmist/doomsday theorist, you could say it's just late.)

Below are two doomsday prediction cartoons by Cam Cardow and two end-of-the-world ones by Wiley Miller (from CSL Cartoonstock).

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I could finish with an interview of a Mayan elder who knows about Mayan calendars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v67pxeizXo), but as any doomsday theorist knows: to accept a viewpoint that disagrees with your personal doomsday theory is against the rules of doomsday theories.

-- Marge