Up next...a plague of locusts

And the hits just keep on coming...

When my father died I inherited two things from him: a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver and a slight case of asthma.

First, let’s talk about the handgun.

My dad was a policeman and had four guns; the revolver I inherited, a snub-nose .38 he carried when he was off duty and a couple Winchester rifles. I wound up with the gun he carried while on duty and for a long while it was one of my most prized possessions.

Then politics got the best of me and I didn’t think it was OK for me to own a handgun while I drew cartoons saying people shouldn’t have one.

So I gave my father’s handgun to a brother who had no objections to owning one and not long after that his house got burglarized. The burglar stole two leather jackets, a pair of high heels (which belonged to my brother’s wife, not him…or at least that’s the story he tells), the .357 and a baked ham that had been sitting on the kitchen counter.

When the cops showed up my brother told them that if they saw a guy running down the street in high heels, wearing a leather jacket, waving a gun around while he ate a ham sandwich, they had found their man.

If I had half a brain I would have put the gun in a safe deposit box or dug a hole in the yard and buried it, but I didn’t and that’s that.

And amazingly enough, that’s not at all what I intended to write about today, but this is: while I could give the gun away, I’ve had no takers on the slight case of asthma.

Over the past week or so I’ve coughed a couple times while out walking and my first thought was “holy shit…coronavirus” which is probably what you think every time you cough or sneeze, but then I remembered I have asthma and one of my kids talked about the “Saharan dust cloud” which is making our current air quality suck and even if it’s not here in KC yet, a high pollen count is.

If I actually had the coronavirus, turns out an asthma inhaler cures it.

Considering all the other stuff we’re currently dealing with, throwing in a Saharan dust cloud seems like piling on and led to the cartoon at the top of this post. While composing the cartoon I had to think about what to put on the list of problems were facing and then just this morning learned I left one out:

We’re about to have a record-setting heat wave.  

What next; a plague of locusts?

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