The Bookworm Beat: August 22, 2014 illustrated edition — the best one ever

My friend Caped Crusader, who has a real knack for finding pictures that are worth their weight in thousands of words, worked overtime the last couple of days, and sent me an amazing batch of cartoons and posters taking on the world today. Consider this your “weekend funnies” edition.

To begin with, there’s something about Leftism that induces amnesia:

Obama’s golf game makes irresistible fodder, not only for people who have noticed that he’s checking out of governing, but for political cartoonists who need a good image to highlight that checking out. Now all we need to have happen is for a killer rabbit to wander across the golf course. (And wouldn’t it be great if it had the name tag “Isis” hanging around its neck?)

A few pointed pictures say a lot more about the right to bear arms than even one of my longest essays would:

Perhaps because race is about color, and color is a visual thing, posters also tend to expose the worst excesses of the Left and race:

It’s also easy to use a few pictures or a punchy quotation to expose all the fallacies of the Leftist approach to the economy and to reveal the wisdom of the conservative approach:

I could (and will) write a whole essay about the wonders of the internet and pictures when it comes to understanding radical Islam and those who do (and those who won’t) stand against her:

And finally, we round out our image gallery with random wisdom about Obama the lying liar, illegal immigration, the lack of wisdom in today’s world, and rules for living smart: