The author of this fascinatingly asinine comic:
Was arrested twice in the last month, once for driving under the influence and once for public intoxication.
Now, drunk driving itself is Not Funny™, but it is funny that the DUI arrest happened on the same day his comic strip about the horrors of alcohol-free egg-nog ran in almost 400 newspapers across the nation.
Nitpicker has a contest under way to provide an actual punchline for a Mallard Fillmore comic. I've already submitted my Mel Gibson-inspired concept, but if you think you can do better, leave a comment there.
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Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo
"I detest the common crowd, and I rebuff them."
Bill Keller, Executive Editor of The New York Times, announced that a new section, Sunday Review, will launch June 26, including comics.
I've talked before about how easily one could put together a conservative essay generator, similar to the postmodern essay generator, that would crank out volumes of buzzword-laden prose that makes no sense whatsoever.