That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 30, 2017

Realizing you sold bitcoins too soon.

“This here tweet is almost 2000 words long!”

Romney to pick Bat Boy as vice president!!? (Actual Weekly World News headline.)

Very topical.

I can’t even rank my list of celebrity nominees for the pool.

What’s this?! He actually said something intelligent, constructive, and inoffensive?

Now what will we do all day?

“Richard Caton Woodville’s War News from Mexico, first exhibited in 1848, was perhaps the most popular of the political paintings. This lithograph was one of some 14,000 prints sold.“

“United States troops entered Mexico City in 1848, bringing to an end a war that had begun in 1846 over a territorial dispute involving Texas. In the resulting Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded half its territory to the United States, effectively concluding the U.S. program of westward expansion.”

“Between 1830 and the Civil War, “genre paintings,” depictions of ordinary people engaged in everyday activities and occupations, flourished throughout America. Richard Caton Woodville’s War News from Mexico is a genre painting depicting Americans’ thirst for news related to the Mexican-American War [1846–1848].”

https://smarthistory.org/richard-caton-woodville-war-news-from-mexico/

www.smithsonianeducation.org/idealabs/ap/artifacts/mwlitho.htm

www.reynoldahouse.org/collections/object/mexican-news

https://crystalbridges.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Classroom-Connection-Woodville-Richard.pdf

" Whoa ! It says: ‘Trump quits as POTUS to become Emperor of the Western World’ ! "

Broadsheet!

What? You people are free?

The whole pool went to the guy that played Garrison Keillor in the POWERBALL slot.

War News from Mexico: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:War_News_from_Mexico.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly 2′×2′ painting.

http://www.reynoldahouse.org/collections/object/mexican-news 

has info about this artist (including, among other things, the 1851 hand-colored engraving version of this work). This work has appeared here 3 times so far. The other 2 times, it had a different caption.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2011/12/22?comments=visible 

has the first time (which, sadly, still has the 15 hyperlinks in my comment there, inactive @#$%&!). It was repeated 8/26/14 (where I just pointed to the first).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1836 (November 29, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“Have you seen what Garfield’s up to today?”