Garth

OMG DISNEY BOUGHT MARVEL
THEY'RE GONNA DUMB EVERYTHING DOWN FOR THE KIDDIES
PUNISHER IS GONNA FIRE RUBBER BULLETS
WOLVERINE'S CLAWS WILL BE FILED DOWN
DAZZLER ON RADIO DISNEY
DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER
MASS HYSTERIA

When I saw the obituary for Billy Mays, my first thought was "Who says there's never any good news in the paper?"

Michael Jackson, dead of a cardiac arrest. So now the real question becomes: who inherits the Elephant Man's bones? Or Macaulay Culkin?

*of Pop
**of Pop

So, the impeachment of Rod Blagojevich went through, and the result was that the Illinois Senate unanimously voted to kick him to the curb. He officially can never again hold state office in Illinois.

A lot of commentators were saying he was nuts for boycotting the trial because it meant he couldn't present a defense, instead going on nationally watched talk shows to insist on his innocence. I think I know his game, though: he's trying to pull a Liddy. He probably realized that his political career is kaput, and figured that if he managed to keep his name out there, and maybe sow some doubt about his guilt in the general public—even though there was no way he could in the Illinois Senate, or Federal court either most likely—he may be able to parley his notoriety into a job as a commentator. I hope he's unsuccessful; I hate seeing people get rewarded for being crooked.

What the fuck, people?!

Over on DailyKos, some people are already crying "Kristallnacht", which is seriously overstating things. But still. Fuck. Gassing babies? There are no words.

RIP Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

I haven't read a whole lot of his work, but Slaughterhouse Five and Mother Night were both fantastic.

On Wednesday a man holding a cavalry sword broke into his upstairs neighbor's home intending to rescue a woman he heard screaming...only to find that the screams were coming from a porn DVD the man was watching.