Monday funnies 8-23-10
Good morning! I’m on the tail end of a 4-day mini-vacation with my parents and hubby. We traveled 8 hours Friday to stay on Mackinac Island in upper MI for the weekend. (Photo right is of half of the Grand Hotel’s porch – longest in the world - just before sunrise.)
Today we’re driving home via the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan.
So I was able to peruse last week’s political cartoons yesterday morning but didn’t have time to post them. Hope you don’t mind these are a day late, and this will be all I have time to upload today.
Here are my top 5 favorites for the week beginning with one by liberal Dan Wasserman at GoComics.com, unwittingly pointing out 2 human poisons, 1 to women, 1 to babies…
This one by Tony Auth at GoComics.com re-reminds me of the chutzpah of liberals…
by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…
by Mike Lester at Townhall.com…
and another by Mike Lester at Townhall.com…
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Grand Hotel is awesome. The best way to go there is on a yacht in the Chicago mackinac race.
That last cartoon emphasizes a point I made in a poem I wrote years ago. Scary how I could see that coming!
I’ve been on Mackinac Island, it’s a lot of fun, but you best wear your walking shoes! NO CARS allowed! But it’s really fun place to visit, and on a tour we went past the Grand Hotel.
Wasn’t Mackinac island the place where they shot “Somewhere in Time” ?
(Chris Reeve / Jane Seymour – romantic SCi-Fi)
RSD,
Yes, it was “Somewhere In Time” and actually it wouldn’t have been Romantic Sci-Fi, it would’ve fallen under Paranormal Romance because of the time travel factor. Sci-Fi is more like “Star Trek”, “Stargate” and things like that.
LOL sorry, I’m a writer, and we have to know genres.
I just went to Michigan but was not able to go up to Mackinac … maybe next time.
Oh dear – just the thought of Bush back in office made me throw up in my mouth a little!
The fifth one – the marriage one – I’ve always agreed with that slippery slope argument, which is why I wish we’d just get rid of marriage as a government institution and make it a religious one.
Thanks for encouraging the likening my desire to get married to wanting to marry a plant, Jill. It’s really humanizing.
Nate,
The cartoon makes a valid point (and Jill didn’t draw the cartoon, Mike Lester at Townhall.com did). In any case, it still shakes me because this is the sort of thing I wrote about in my early 20’s when I wrote the poem (that was never professional published, although I still have it) I mentioned in an earlier comment on here.
Nathan, the point is that opening the door to marriage to any other combination than man/woman opens the door to all any and all other combinations.
Re: Mackinac Island, right, no motorized vehicles allowed. We got around on foot or by horse drawn carriage.
And right, “Somewhere in Time” was filmed at The Grand. In fact, the hotel stocked a vhs copy in every room, which we watched, and it featured a showing of the movie Saturday night in one of the small halls. The movie is really ridiculous, but I’m told it has quite a following, and it was fun watching it to spot places we knew in the hotel, plus to spot inaccuracies (such as the sprinkler system on the ceiling in scenes that were supposed to have taken place in 1912). It was also kind of creepy watching Christopher Reeve in his prime, knowing his future.