Make way for cats

DID YOU KNOW? Fred Savage from The Wonder Years graduated from Stanford. Man, smartest and most well-adjusted child cast of a television show ever.

Today in the internet:



Along with "Scott Tenorman Must Die" this is pretty much one of the greatest pieces of art of my generation. Seriously, the VP debate was my previous favorite, and I still walk around singing "Pakistan, that's where they live, that's where they are" every so often, which is cool because at least somebody remembers something poor Joe Biden said that night. But this new AutoTune the News, oh man... so catchy, so well-edited, and so profound.

"Do we choose liberty or do we choose tyranny?"
"It all depends: who gets to be the tyrant?"

Seriously, that's some deep political philosophy. At least, I can imagine Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin saying it, which is my main criterion for whether or not something is philosophically sound or not.

As I was composing this quick entry Manoj tipped me off to an article with the ominous title "Cats Know How to Control Humans, Study Finds." Come on, I've been saying that since I was like 14 and people are just now getting around to studying it? I am the Al Gore of cat paranoia. Anyway, I read through that and confirmed my deepest fears and when I got to the bottom I happened to glance over at some of the other "most read stories" for today:


I have to assume that these represent only stories from the Department Of Sad And Implausible Headlines That Would Otherwise Seem To Have Originated From A Satirical Publication.