Garfield

I truly loved Garfield when I was a kid. I'm sure many kids (and maybe some lucky adults) still love the comic. But it loses virtually all of its oomph when viewed through adult eyes (which is really sad, if I think about it too long). Thankfully, today on Metafilter, someone posted a link to a site that has many Garfield comics with Garfield and his thoughts removed. The result is variably weird, sad, funny, indescribable, and on and on.









Along with this link were many others that revive Garfield in various ways:

• Garfield without his thought balloons (a likely precursor)
• The Garfield randomizer (coherence is a virtual lock!)
• A Garfield Comic Creator (on the National Institutes of Health website!)

And then there's one of the longest-running World Wide Wonderful Web sites, The Dysfunctional Family Circus.

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Fuck the Senate

The Senate gave the telecom industry legal protection for its (illegal) eavesdropping activities today. Retroactively. Assholes, especially the spineless Democratic weasels who voted to give the telecom industry immunity. From the Salon link:

"The Senate today -- led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus -- will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and will also provide full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration's years-long illegal spying programs aimed at Americans."

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