Making Garfield Funny

Hah! Someone finally figured out how to make that hoary, old comic strip Garfield funny - take out the cat!

Without the eponymous main character, it becomes "a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb." ROTFLMAO!

[hat tip to Scalzi's Whatever]

QotD for 21 Feb., 2008

I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry. --- U.S. Representative John Lewis

[tip of the hat to the Mad Priest]

QotD for 13 Feb., 2008

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! --- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

The Belief-O-Matic

Yeah, it's an oldie but a goodie - Beliefnet's Belief-O-Matic, a personality quiz about your religious and spiritual beliefs.

Me ? 100% Unitarian Universalist and in the mid to upper 90's for both Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants and Liberal Quakers, plus a fair amount of Buddhism and Secular Humanism. No surprises there :)

QotD for 5 Feb., 2008

If you can't do something smart, do something right --- Shepherd Derrial Book, a character in Joss Whedon's Firefly, played by Ron Glass