Cartoons: Zika, academic testing, and Trump (again)

The 2016 Summer Olympics start today with the lighting of the cauldron by someone not Pelé. Here's cartoonist Nate Beeler's take on the event.

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Nate Beeler, The Week

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And school starts soon. Cartoonist Marshall Ramsey calls it "testing." Former venture capitalist and education philanthropist Ted Dintersmith and Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (whew!) Tony Wagner co-wrote an article about academic testing and what it does not accomplish: Opinion: America desperately needs to redefine ‘college and career ready'. Is it old-fashioned or misguided to wonder what happened to learning for the sake of learning?

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Marshall Ramsey, The Week

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Then there's Trump...again. This time he's insulted the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq. Trump claims to have sacrificed as much as the Khan family did; the twitter-verse weighed-in.

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David Horsey, The Week

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Meanwhile, Paul Ryan, Republican Speaker of the House, responds.

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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-- Marge

Cartoons: a touch of rancor, a dash of humor, and some sodium nitrate

Halloween is the hot theme of the day with GOP antics superimposed, then there's the new Speaker of the House, Hilary, and processed meats.

If keeping up with the polls is a thing you like to do, check out RealClearPolitics. Have fun trying to keep up with the sea changes in the Republican race.

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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According to Wikipedia,

The Freedom Caucus, also known as the House Freedom Caucus, is a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It was formed by a group of Congressmen as a "smaller, more cohesive, more agile and more active" group of conservatives.

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David Fitzsimmons, The Week

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According to The Hill, the new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan outfoxed them.

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Steve Sack, The Week

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The GOP's Benghazi-hounds may be outfoxing themselves.

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Tom Toles, The Week

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Meanwhile, pass the bacon.

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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-- Marge