Thoughts, Thoughts, Thoughts...

Comic Books in the comics:

• Beetle Bailey
  
• Baldo (started Monday)

Brill Building gives us an Adam West post. Is it true that the Solo cover has been changed? Very odd...

I think that Local was probably sent to every single comic book blogger who has an audience of more than just their mom. Good thing it's a great book, as well.

Local #2 will be solicited in the next Previews mag, so there's plenty of time to still get your hands on the first issue and be in on this one from the start.

More on 52*, this time about giving a break to retailers. I'm still waiting to hear how much it costs before I decide if I'm willing to even consider buying it.

Non-Comics Stuff:

How To Write Sensible E-Mail.

To The Moon! NASA has some plans, and they don't look all that bad.

The World of Warcraft gaming system introduced a plague, but it turned out to be much more contagious and deadly than the programmers had intended, and killed off tons of low-lever players. The Video of gamers spreading the disease is very... compelling. It's a geek plague.

Bobby Henderson, creator of FSM, is interviewed by Gelf Magazine. Choice quotes:
"That is sort of the whole deal with religion—you make an a priori assumption and then challenge people to disprove you. If that's a legit strategy in mainstream religion, and increasingly in the science classroom, then it's legit for FSMism as well."
and
"I think FSM does a better job of explaining what would motivate the creator to go to so much trouble to change our scientific results in order to make the universe appear older than it truly is. Tampering with our radioisotope measurements, geographic observations and, perhaps most impressive, placing individual photons enroute to earth, suitably redshifted, in an effort to mislead us is not only an act of an intelligent maker, but also an anarchistic, mischevious one."

Challenging Medical Wisdom with Experimentation.

The death of Bananas. Again. And Snopes weighs in.

Visiting Jesusland. A trip through the rotting remains of Jim Bakker's theme park.

Terrible story of race and lies. Via MeFi.

More Katrina stories. And still more.

Slashdot notes the Diebold insider who has spoken out. Again, any election using Diebold voting machines cannot be considered valid.

Alaska is in DESPERATE need of two bridges that will serve less than 100 people altogether. At least, that's the situation according to Republican Rep Don Young who absolutely refuses to consider the possibility that the HALF BILLION DOLLARS earmarked for his pork projects might be better spent helping rebuild New Orleans. That's all you need to know about "compassionate" conservatives, right there.

One phone call. Bush wouldn't even have had to interrupt his vacation. Just one phone call and the 1st Cav and 82nd Airborne could have moved in and helped NOLA. When they finally got the orders, they were there in 8 hours. But they had to wait for the "leadership" to get off its collective butt first. One phone call, and Bush could have saved hundreds of lives. But he couldn't even be bothered to do that much. And you wonder why people despise him?