SMBC: The Economy Looms Large

I'll bet you twenty million bars of Fort Knox gold that The Economy strokes a cat that's always sitting on his lap…

This Modern World: Two Guys Standing on an Incline

Tom Tomorrow asks the age old question: What if two guys were discussing America's dysfuntional relationship with the Middle East while standing on inclined surface…

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SMBC: Quantum Politics

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal finds the space on the Venn diagram where science and politics meet…

This Modern World: Serious Solutions

Tom Tomorrow takes a look at how the country responds to the serious new  adult solutions to our economic woes being proposed by Congress…

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"The Governator" Pretty Much Exactly What You Expected It to Be (Unfortunately)

Earlier today, I made fun of Arnold Schwarzenegger's new comic/cartoon/3D movie/videogame/breakfast cereal (probably) Governator project without having seen any of it, and, for that, I am deeply sorry.

Now, however, I feel completely justified in my bilious disdain…

So, it's about what? A former governor/bodybuilder/actor or eschews a life of peaceful celebrity in favor of riding across the entire state of California to fight a bunch of bank-robbing Gobots with his little kid friends? That's the premise for real? This is seriously not a make-believe thing? This is a real life thing that the former governor of California is for real doing as a triumphant return to Hollywood? For real?

Uh oh.

So, does anybody still wonder why California went bankrupt?