Blown.

...is that we're actually the opposite: "functioning people" who see ourselves as basically brains in beakers, hooked up to computers.

Honest, I can stop using this machine any time I want. Watch me, I'm gonna lift my hands from the keyboard riiiight now...

draw Macs. Even Uncle Duke was using a iMac a few weeks ago. I can't remember the last time I've seen a comic strip character not using a Mac.

Artists draw Apple computers because Apple designed hardware actually HAS a look. Otherwise, just draw umm... a beige box with some cables I guess. Maybe black with some blue blinky led lights if you want to depict a gamer.

Also, the "brain in a jar" thought experiment dates back to Descartes, you know the one... "I think therefore I am". Yeah, that guy. ~ 400 years ago. It's still a worthwhile read, although he punks out and calls an audible to a "benevolent god" who would not torture the poor brain in a beaker, it's a pretty deep read and a cool philosophical argument. The very capacity to ponder our own existence presented as proof of our existence? [bong noises]

Somewhere, a bottle is missing its brain.

Oh how I miss having all of that low hanging fruit that was the daily

gift to those of us that lived for the daily snarkfest that "W" provided.

I mean, how much humor is there to be found in the meltdown? Sure, it's

somewhat funny to see people that were well off consumers now have to

make a choice between food and healthcare.

At least it was for a while, now it's getting old.

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... only with humor.

a brain?

I believe the correct expression is [Star Trek Nerd Alert!]:

"Brain and brain! What is brain?"

...is that the people depicted in the last panel, what the brain was experiencing, were more attractive than the people in the real world.