Dada, thy name is Jim Davis: Garfield strips without the cat. Humorous if you enjoy laughing at the pathetic.

While I’m thinking about comic strips, A Friend Who Shall Not Be Named pointed me in the direction of the highly disturbing Sexy Losers comic strip. No, really, I mean it. Highly disturbing. But this relatively tame joke about incest is the most amusing thing I’ve read all year.

It’s all over, folks; a Diebold computer error has released the 2008 election results (according to The Onion). “This country is based on the fantasy that the government is the voice of the people.”

919,000 “suspected terrorists” on government watch lists. And growing.

Iraq war causes sub-prime crisis? Can’t say as I understand it, but then again, Joseph Stiglitz has a Nobel in economics, and he said so. But $3 trillion, or about 60 times more that Bush said it would cost when he was (literally) selling the war? That I understand. How many more times will we be forced to ask, “incompetence or malfeasance?”

Experimental 16.4 terabit per second fiber network created over a distance of 1,500 miles. Jesus. That’s my entire 120 gig hard drive in 0.06 seconds. Human eyeblink: 0.3 seconds.

Most of my readers won’t understand this, but those that do will find this hysterical, as I do: “GLTerminal emulates a 1970’s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and flicker. It even simulates baud rate lag. And! for extra verisimilitude, the character colors can be green or amber.”

The Onion: Dangerous idiom shortage strikes. “Citizens in the South and West have been hit by the dearth of idioms like babies bite the bedpost. Unless something is done before long to dry out the cinnamon jars, residents of Texas may soon cease speaking altogether.”