Can you explain, then, why when asked none of the GOP presidential candidates would affirm a belief in evolution, the bedrock of modern biology? This is not an isolated example, it's part of a pattern.

At some point we start looking at the Stormtroopers falling into the pit in the center of the Death Star and think, "That guy had a Mom..."

I have yet to get there with orcs or zombies, fortunately, so I can still enjoy some action films.

"That orc had a spawning pit...." Just doesn't tug at my heartstrings. Yet.

Here's a surprise: Jindal was in Baton Rouge for the duration of the time that people would be rescuing in boats and that whole "yelling in the makeshift office" thing is a total myth. Do Republicans [and, strangely, Hillary Clinton] not know that we have the interwebs and can check these things?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/24/23132/9395/253/701495

Beauty Pageant Contestant + Questions about world affairs= Fail

Surging!

Dude, methinks it's time to quit this game if the only thing Outland can talk about is itself.

Sorry, did I understand correctly that this dude thought that the airliner that crashed into one of the WTC towers was armed with a missle? Does this guy know anything about how airliners are constructed? There are no hardpoints that you could attach a missle on an airliner. You can't even modify an airliner to be missle-capable.

And, even if there were, what would be the point? So, you're going to crash an airliner into a tower. It weighs tons, is traveling at hundreds of miles an hour and is packed with explosive fuel. But at the last second, you fire a missle? For what? To increase the impact?

Totally dumbass.

Not sure I get it. Sort of phoned that one in, eh Scott? Usually love your stuff. You get a pass, as you are typically teriffic, but this one not so much.

When they knew this story was coming out?

WTF

Ok, so Opus has become intolerable, but THAT was funny! Trust me, as a guy with two little kids and WAY too many Raffi songs on his iPod, this was a breath of fresh air.

Huzzah, Scott!

There was the one where Opus gets a Kindle. He dosen't like it. And Breathed thought it was backlit- showing that he'd never actually seen one.

There was the one where the characters freak out becasue of the number of iphones compared to the number of people who live without plumbing- Breathed got the numbers wrong on that one.

How about when Opus' mother contacts him via "iHologram" leaving him sad and alone? That one seems to vividly try to point out that we are "a whole generation dulling ourselves behind text messages". Opus is actually chided by his holographic mother for being a "middle aged old fogy".

Last week they couldn't even hook up a TV.

And this week it's Gituar Hero.

I think it's become clear that Breathed no longer speaks to my generation. Here he is, with an online comic on Salon of all places and he spends all his time bashing technology. Maybe this sort of thing works in a local paper where the readership is mostly 55+, but on Salon it just looks lame and hopelessly out ot it.

Maybe Salon should start running "Crankshaft". For God's sake, it's just not that hard to set up a TV. Every week it seems like there is another Opus about how ailenating technology is.

Ahh, the warm glow of a candle...

The soothing drip, drip from the ice box...

The comforting sizzle of fat burning out of the marrow of a mammoth femur...

Ahh, the good ole' days!

Move over Bill Keene- the strip about what REAL child-rearing is all about is about to hit the page. You know, how to hide your weed, how to explain the homeless to your 2 year old and how to try and have a sex life with a child in the house.

Am...jabbing..out...own....eyes

I have this same persona in my local newspaper. Times were always better years ago, culture is in decline and the young don’t care [repeat]. Camille Paglia is just the intellectual left’s version of this chestnut of American discourse, the crank editorial writer who is permanently dissatisfied at everything, much of which they don’t bother to try and understand and is trapped in a past which, to them, seemed to hold possibility.

Please, Salon, you’re better than this.

uhhh, I hate to go here but 2 billion people on earth lack indoor plumbing, not 5 billion. 5 billion would be 80% of the world population. Not the case. Still bad, but not that bad.

most likely to be left behind when a post-human technological utopia becomes possible.

is the feet dangling down in the ER. I don't know what that guy's got, but I don't want it.

Huzzah for Lucky Ducky