Sunday Funnies & So Much More

As always, click to enlarge. For more Ben Sargent, Calvin & Hobbes, The Boondocks, Zippy the Pinhead, and Tom the Dancing Bug, go here, here, here, here, and here...

Molly the Dog sees one of the lucky ones: 

She's been raped, held at gunpoint, and incarcerated for prostitution. She told me so many bad things happened to her while she was on the street and it's taken her three months to start sorting through some of it. I told her how proud she should be of herself, how it's never too late to start over...

The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club celebrates its 100th anniversary: "The club has weathered hurricanes and sweeping societal changes. Members began buck jumping to Victrolas, then LPs, eight-tracks, CDs and now MP3s. Through it all, they danced."

If you're an Iranian terrorist, where would you go for bomb parts? Linden, New Jersey, of course...

Congratulations, Arizona Cardinals, on pulling off the biggest upset of the NFL playoffs yesterday: "It was like eliminating the Spurs, sweeping the Dodgers and learning the Cowboys were bankrupt."

Frank Rich hopes the Bush Administration will be held accountable for its record of malfeasance and corruption: 

While our new president indeed must move on and address the urgent crises that cannot wait, Bush administration malfeasance can’t be merely forgotten or finessed. A new Justice Department must enforce the law; Congress must press outstanding subpoenas to smoke out potential criminal activity; every legal effort must be made to stop what seems like a wholesale effort by the outgoing White House to withhold, hide and possibly destroy huge chunks of its electronic and paper trail...

The New Yorker's Jill Lepore recounts a fascinating history of inaugural addresses (abstract here; registration required for complete article). Generally speaking, with the exception of the occasional memorable flourish ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"), they're a dreary lot. The exceptions are those of Lincoln (both of his are head and shoulders above all others), Jefferson (first), Kennedy, and -- surprisingly -- 20th president James Garfield, whose outline became the template for all subsequent inaugural addresses...

STOP THE PRESSES!!! Forced to choose between ideology and intellectual dishonesty, a respected conservative economist chooses ideology. The whole shocking, unbelievable story is here...