Cartoons: grope this

This week's batch of cartoons has three about politics and one about Samsung's flaming Galaxy Note 7.

Since the second presidential debate featured Donald's "locker room talk," be warned. Here's a transcript.

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Bob Gorrell, The Week

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As a woman, this is how I plan to handle Donald's loose talk. There's a word for his communication problems; it's 'logorrhoea,' or diarrhea of the mouth. I'm not saying anything about the accusations of sexual misconduct, enough has already been said.

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John Deering, The Week

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Making lemonade from a lemon... Here's a video about why the Samsung catches fire.

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Jack Ohman, The Week

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Funny, but I was thinking about this the other day.

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Tom Toles, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: Bernie-love lives on, despite the DNC

Apparently Julian Assange of Wikileaks doesn't want Hillary to win either (see link below). More disturbing is the suspicion that Russia is trying to influence the 2016 election. The New York Times reports "Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C." To say nothing of the hit on my misplaced trust in the democratic process.

The cartoons below tell the story of the convention, mostly from a pro-Bernie viewpoint. Hat's off to cartoonists David Horsey and Drew Sheneman, both beautifully on-topic.

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David Horsey, The Week

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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David Horsey, The Week

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Steve Sack, The Week

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John Deering, The Week

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: have the bullies won?

Now the question is--how much sheer bedlam did Boehner keep down?

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David Horsey, The Week

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Will the GOP ever get itself under control?

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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I love a good pun, even a near miss.

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John Deering, The Week

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Planned Parenthood got yelled at. This from Slate Magazine:

Watching Republicans repeatedly interrupt and yell at Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards on Tuesday, one might get the impression that there's some kind of national uprising against the existence of affordable women's health care. Republicans repeatedly excoriated the organization for focusing on contraception and Pap smears instead of on mammograms, which are typically done at radiology centers. ... Viewers got a laundry list of things that Republicans felt should be funded instead of low-cost birth control and STI treatment at Planned Parenthood. Rep. Glenn Grothman even argued (bewilderingly) that since there's medical care he can get "as a guy," then Planned Parenthood—and by implication, its gynecological services (?!?)—is unnecessary. The message was clear: Taxpayer-funded gynecological care is an illegitimate use of government funding.

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Mike Lukovich, The Week

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OK, OK, there is/was water on Mars.

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RJ Matson, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: the baby in the room

It's a new year with new opportunities to address old problems. What will we do?

I don't think talking about it on Facebook will help, but I could be wrong.

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David Fitzsimmons, The Week

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Putin's bluster is wearing thin with the collapse of the ruble and the new year isn't opening well for him.

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John Deering, The Week

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Meanwhile, just about everyone is blaming Obama.

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Bill Day, The Week

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Lower prices at the gas pump doesn't necessarily mean lower prices at the ticket counter.

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Chan Lowe, The Week

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One plastic bottle or little green army man overboard doesn't matter, does it?

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Jack Ohman, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: some sums

These about sum it up...

John Deering, The Week

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Randal Enos, The Week

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Rick McKee, The Week

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-- Marge

NSFW and other offbeat humor

This Friday no editorial cartoons are being shown.  Instead we're visiting the virtual land of Creators.com, where offbeat humor abounds.  Creators has added a couple of other sites to its domain -- Alpha Comedy ("More Comedy. Better Comedy.") and Coral Mag (articles, many humorous).

From Speed Bump (a fun series and site) by Dave Coverly:
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Dave Coverly, "NSFW," Creators.com

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From BC, a comic strip created by Johnny Hart and now continued by his grandsons Mason and Mick Mastroianni and daughter Perri Hart:
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Mastroianni and Hart, Creators.com

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From Strange Brew by John Deering:
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John Deering, Creators.com

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From Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen (This doesn't begin to show the range of his delightful work):

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Jerry Van Amerongen, Creators.com

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From Free Range by Bill Whitehead:

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Bill Whitehead, Creators.com

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From Home Office by Michael Wright:
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Micheal Wright, Creators.com

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TGIF.

-- Marge