Cartoons: Amazon drones

Have you heard?  Headlines this week reported "Amazon unveils futuristic plan: Delivery by drone."  Other companies plan to do the same: "Amazon is not alone: UPS, Google also testing delivery drones." What could happen?  This collection of cartoons at Mercury News explores the question; here are some samples.

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Dan Wasserman, Mercury News

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David Fitzsimmons, Mercury News

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John Cole, Mercury News

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Mike Luckovich, Mercury News

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Milt Priggee, Mercury News

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My question is -- will we soon need air traffic controllers for drones?  They appear to be multiplying.

-- Marge

Cartoons: the Pope has left the room

Don't know about you, but I was surprised to hear that Pope Benedict XVI resigned.  For a possibly biased report on why, take a look at Michael D'Antonio's article "Immunity for Rome's Rottweiler: Why The Pope Resigned" at Huffington Post.  An interesting news tidbit is this article -- "German cartoon predicted Pope’s resignation" from The [London] Times (aka Times Newspapers Limited).

Editorial cartoonists the world over had a take on this topic.  See some of the mostly American output below.

This first one is by Nick Anderson and was found at Time Magazine's Cartoons of the Week:

From U.S News & World Report gallery on the Catholic Contraception Controversy there's this one by Chan Lowe:

Three are from the San Jose Mercury News' cartoon slideshow titled "Pope Benedict resigns."  The first is one by Cameron Cardow:

Next is one by Rick McKee:

And lastly, here's one done by David Fitzsimmons:

Pax vobiscum.

-- Marge