First, the excellent comic strip "Lio" had this installment:
"The Doozies" (by the hilarious Tom Gammill) defends Beetle Bailey's honor today. Ow. Ow. Ow.
I'll just do what I normally do when a fight breaks out… stand at the perimeter with a baseball bat and wait for an opportunity for a free shot before disappearing into the crowd.
FEATURING…
– FUN SCIENCE FACTS FOR THE DEPRESSED
– GARRY-WINTON-MAN
– HOW TO DRAW DOUG
– LEN AND HIS GIANT 1980s GLASSES
– FUN-PAK TEAM-UP, FEATURING ACE POWELL AND MIKEY
– PERCIVAL DUNWOODY, IDIOT TIME TRAVELER FROM 1909
– AND MUCH, MUCH MORE! *
* actually, no more.
Loved The Corrections, so I can't wait to read Freedom.
Cory Doctorow wrote that Zero History is Gibson's best. Sold.
Another startling t-shirt (and mug!) offer from Tom the Dancing Bug. For a limited time only…
The original comic strip:
On a study showing a similarity between human and marine ragworm brains:
"'You can say that the topography is so similar that the human and worm must come from a common ancestor,' said Detlev Arendt, a researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and one of the study's authors."
Yes, you can say that. I'll bet Arendt and his colleagues are having a pretty nice chuckle right now.
In today's New York Times, the great sage Paul Krugman neatly outlines Hollingsworth Hound's complicated relationship with the Deficit Hawk:
"Notice, in particular, how suddenly Republicans lost interest in the budget deficit when they were challenged about the cost of retaining tax cuts for the wealthy. But that won’t stop them from continuing to pose as deficit hawks whenever anyone proposes doing something to help the unemployed."
He also writes about the economic sacrifices demanded in the name of invisible "bond gods" that reminded me of this Tom the Dancing Bug from a couple of years ago. Of course, he's talking about very specific "gods," the gods of budget deficit control that must be appeased to avoid a phantom borrowing crisis. I was referring to the general way we view the economic crisis compared to the way the Mayans reacted to the crises that eventually toppled their civilization. But the last panel in the strip makes for a nice illustration to his piece.