The Daily Howler is a website that cannot be read for more than a few days without an enormous loss of confidence in our nation's press. Its maker, Bob Somerby, does an amazing job of comparing news items and pointing out where a reporter has tap-danced past a lack of facts. Today's installment does an especially good job of exposing all those reports about the faux terrorists discovered in Georgia last week. But read through his archives and you'll find a lot more that will get you to wondering why more reporters aren't called on stories that don't stand up to even minimal scrutiny.
Comic strip characters are drinking less than they used to. Or so says this article in the Washington Post. (Thanx to Jerry Beck, lord of Cartoon Research, for the alert.)
If you've noticed weirdness on this site the last few days, it's because I made a coding error that caused bizarre formatting for those using certain screen settings. I think everything's back to normal now…but I've been wrong before.