Love the Mickey Mouse-type gloves of the (belligerent) cartoon.

It seems these days the TV news reports on the TV news. (Should we show the V-Tech killer's video?). The blogs all blog about blogging. Now the comic writers write about writing comics...

I would comment on the commentors, but that would be a bit self indulgent...

All commenters do is bitch. It has deep metaphysical and psychological meaning, coming from the comment threads early days in the wild days of the internet. The first comments were vitriol-filled e-mails which sailed through the internet (in those days composed of various tubes and big trucks). Then a man named, ironically, Johnathon Comment, installed the first "thread" wherein comments could be pasted and referred back to. This was a message board.

However, the popularity of these boards floundered without a guided topic against which to complain. Enter the intrepid American spirit: daily updated logs on various subjects or "weblogs," now known as "blogs." I asked John Comm, as he wishes to be known, what his thoughts were on where internet commenting had gone.

"These guys don't know how to comment. It was so much better in my day." But was it? The answer: yes. Commenting has devolved to complaining about free entertainment and ridiculous defenses of illegal behavior, most evinced by the anti-IP forces contained within Salon's Machinist blog.

Keef on Keefin' on

I agree. I just don't give a rat's ass what people reading the net think. Just don't care. I think commenters are the worst, but News about the News, Award shows that give award shows awards, and blogs about blogs are just so inbred.

You're right. I'm not reading or writing any more comments. Or watching news about news, or reading comics about comics.