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2008.05.08

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Before the doctor gave me an Ambien prescription, The Economist was how I got to sleep. You've just made that magazine a thousand times more interesting. This had better be an ongoing series.

Holy crap, this is an awesome post. I second the call for this to be a continuing feature.

I always feel horribly uninformed when it comes to international news (and most domestic stuff too, but fuck, the important stories, like Jeremiah Wright's latest diatribe or Miley Cyrus' naked back are all but inescapable). That shit in the Congo is fucked up; I feel dirty for reading it, like it was from some sort of exploitative horror porn, but it's real, man. Why the fuck isn't anybody doing anything about it? Oh yeah, nobody cares about Africa. God, people have messed up priorities (I say as I go back to reading about Geo-Force or some stupid shit like that).

On a more positive note, I agree about the need for less use of oil, but it's tough in the US; we've basically structured most of the country so that everybody has to drive for an hour a day just to go to work. When the real crisis hits, we're going to be fucked. And getting rid of an 18-cent gas tax for a couple months isn't going to do much. I had been thinking of trying to organize a carpool-facilitation service at my office, so now I think I'll have to do something like that, just out of a sense of trying to do something, anything.

On a final note, douchemaster is a great word. I'll have to try to work it into conversation. When it comes to semi-offensive neologisms, you're my main source.

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