God damn.

So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers – these are “either” the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president – too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters’ signs – too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don’t understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can’t understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests.

In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition
Rick Perlstein, The Washington Post

Some excellent Prince Valiant frames for you. Click for large versions.

Heh heh. That human isn’t gonna make it. We’re snacks!

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TK Webb – “The Devil’s A Dork (The Sea Told Me)”
Living Bridge (Compilation)

One of the songs I’d forgotten about from the excellent Living Bridge compilation from Rare Book Room, which features major artists like Deerhunter and Blood On the Wall as well as rarer stuff like Doldrums and this. It’s a jangly, easy-to-listen-to tune with great guitar work and confident vocals. My new favorite from the compilation.

Who am I to stand in the way of evolution?

A little spider was on the wall in my bathroom and, having no glass handy, I decided I should smush it. I’m not always so cruel, but I was in a hurry. Tissue in hand, I reached up to get him and at the last moment he sprang out of the way. Curses! He ran down the wall, so I tried again, but this time he zipped onto the tissue and immediately shot off on a thread, nearly landing on me. I tried to get him close to the wall to take another shot, but he pulled back up his thread and I couldn’t get the angle.

It was at this moment that I thought, wait, what the hell? This guy is amazing. He’s a better dodger than any little house spider I’ve ever seen. He’s probably going to grow up big and strong and propagate those awesome genes. He’s advancing the species! How can I stand in the way of that?!

So I carried him on his string all the way over to the window and let him go on his way. Good luck, buddy.

Top 40 worst drawings by Rob Liefeld
This is hilarious. I have a couple of these comics or have read them, and I definitely recognize Liefeld’s art and the ridiculous things his does in it.

There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman.

Victor Hugo

I just tested out the Bald Bull thing in Punch-Out described by the designer and hidden for 22 years. There it is! The flash! I’ve always been punching him on his third jump, but this is a more unambiguous cue.