Cartoons: then they came for me

This week's selection of cartoons is a mixed bag, each one picked because it said something to me personally.

This one made me laugh.

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Drew Sheneman, The Week

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This one made me feel like crying.

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Pat Bagley, The Week

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This one made me snicker (Here's a sample of The Onion).

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John Darkow, The Week

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And this one captured my current apprehension.

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Tom Toles, The Week

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-- Marge

DIY: staying sane in crazy times

Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle

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With reports of war, aggressive actions, tyranny, children in distress and increasing violence of all sorts multiplying exponentially, it's time for some psychological self-preservation.  One could just turn off the TV and radio and stop reading, or at least tune out the news, but that seems somewhat self-defeating. And, considering the current state of the world, it may be dangerous not to have some warning.

Another possibility for self-preservation is humor, particularly satire.  Dr. George Simon, psychologist and responder to Ask the Psychologist, writes "Satire [is] Snideness that Satisfies."

To me Jon Stewart's presentations of the news in The Daily Show feel like fresh air in the way he cuts through the feldergarb.

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Jon Stewart, Let's Buy CNN Kickstarter, The Daily Show

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Stephen Colbert's presentations in the Colbert Report are similar to Jon's but more clearly satiric, in that you're often not quite sure whether he's being serious or sarcastic.

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Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

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Other resources for satire are The Onion, The Daily Currant, and National Report.

If you feel you must act out, here are "Fourteen Insane Ways to Stay Sane During These Crazy Times." Be warned: doing any of these things will probably get a reaction, maybe adverse.

-- Marge