Count Four

Loans, Anyone?

Commenting on the financial crisis, Sinfest gets it about right, again.

Bankstas

Sinfest nails the bailout in: Damn it feels good to be a Banksta.

Head of Skate

A few weeks ago Matt Damon compared Palin’s nomination to a bad Disney film. Well, someone went and made a trailer for that same film.

Link courtesy hoyvenmayven.

Innovations in Energy

This would be laughable, if it weren’t so true.

(Flash required)

Coming to a City Near You

This could so easily apply to DC, too.

Shame and Feminization

I’ve been meaning to write about the Thai cops and their new “Hello Kitty armband” punishment regime, but as usual Morford has beaten me to the punch and written a lovely bit of satire about this ridiculous practice. I especially love his introduction of the cutest kitty around:

We speak, quite naturally, of Hello Kitty, perhaps the most unspeakably evil icon of horrific cuteness since that time My Little Pony and Smurfette had a dirty threesome with a Cabbage Patch Kid at Circus Circus back in ‘98, resulting in a mutant bastard offspring so repulsively adorable the U.S. government must now keep it locked away in an ironclad Area 51 bunker lest humans see it and instantly explode into bloody piles of candy canes and glitter and 2 billion pink Swarovski crystals.

Go read the rest here.

The thing he doesn’t mention explicitly is the inherent sexism at work in this “punishment.” The sexism that declares that somehow having to wear a Hello Kitty armband will make these (male) cops less manly, more feminine, and that this is somehow a bad thing. It’s a ludicrous practice, and it deserves every bit of ridicule it’s receiving.

Sanctity

See, we told you the gays were ruining heterosexual marriage.

A Rose By Any Other Name

In honor of the Live Earth concerts, I’d like to point you to this comic (Prickly City).

Don’t Tell the Kids

OMGWTF, txt msgs r mkng ppl dumb. LOL

How to deal with laptop-readers

If you ever have folks who keep trying to read your email while on a plane or train, make sure they’re watching the screen, then open this link while you lie back and close your eyes.