* “The economy is collapsing, millions are unemployed, and the country’s credit rating has just been downgraded. What are you going to do next, Obama?”

“I’m going to Martha’s Vineyard!”

Yay, the president has decided that after all of his hard work of… I dunno… ineffectual nagging to raise taxes, he’s going on vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, favorite hang out of effete, rich liberals. It’s the perfect way to tell the American people, “Not only do I not understand the problems you’re going through, I could not care less.”

I look beyond the optics, though, and see it as more time Obama will be spending golfing. Things have been pretty rough for the economy over the past week, and maybe knowing Obama will be busy on a golf course and thus not meddling with things elsewhere will help give people time to recover. And if Obama just never gives a speech again ever, maybe we can really turn things around. I say we turn his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard into an exile.

* So the riots have been going on in London for days now, and the Prime Minister has raised the possibility of using water cannons. Water cannons? The people rioting aren’t the aliens from Signs. How about actual cannons — you know, like you’d use against pirates. Get a militia together of concerned citizens and have them load and fire live cannons at the rioters, and if you participate, you get all the grog you can drink. That’s taking a hard line on criminals… which they should have done the first day.

The puppy blender put up this poster:

I think it’s from the 1940s, because people having guns and exercising their basic human rights is kind of against the law in London now. Of course, enforcing laws isn’t London’s strong suit for the moment.

* Sarah Palin will be doing a bus tour in Iowa this week. Is she still thinking of running? Who knows. She’s a crazy woman; you probably can’t predict her actions using rational thought. And what happens if both her and Perry jump in the race? Then we probably have Palin, Perry, and Bachmann splitting up the conservative vote while Romney runs away with all the “meh” vote. Man, I’d rather not have Romney as our candidate. Palin, please do whatever best reduces the chance of us getting stuck with Romney.

No, Palin, I didn’t mean the moose gun! Put down the moose gun! You’re crazy!

* The Huntsman campaign finally has what it needs to take off: The endorsement of Jeb Bush… Jr. Jeb Bush was the successful governor of Florida, and Jeb Bush Jr. is… the son of that guy.

Anyway, there’s a Republican debate tonight which is Huntsman’s last chance to make an impression among people other than the sons of somewhat relevant politicians. It’s also probably Pawlenty’s last chance to… :yawn: …Man, I’m so sleepy.

* So there’s actually a project to build helmets for our soldiers that allow them to talk to each other telepathically. This is what I’m talking about! We need telepathic soldiers riding dinosaurs and backed by space lasers to take on… ignorant terrorists armed with old Russian surplus AK-47s hiding in caves. Man, we need a better enemy. I think China is about the only one around who could start a real world war. China, you up for a world war? We want to try out our telepathy; it’ll be cool.

* According to a poll, Casey Anthony is the most hated person in America. But she was found not guilty!

I hate it when some people think the legal principle of “innocent until proven guilty” is how we’re personally supposed to behave. Like if you yourself saw someone gun people down, you couldn’t call the guy a murder until he was convicted in a court of law. No, we’re able to act rationally based on more common sense standard of evidence, which is why I wouldn’t expect Casey Anthony to be embraced by society any time soon. She’ll be shunned as much as a member of Congress.

* To get a special variant cover on a Marvel comic book, comic retailers will have to rip off the covers of 50 current DC comics and send them to Marvel. Is this really the time for cut throat business like that? While comic book characters are as popular as ever in movies and TV, haven’t comic book shops been dying? Comic books are kind of a niche market where you have to go to a weird store run by a fat guy with a ponytail who’s overly bitter and sarcastic to buy them. Plus, they’re like $3 or $4 each for about 5-minutes of reading time; not economical. It seems like the main hope of comic books are tablet PCs where now anyone can easily buy comics without getting weirded out (and avoid the comic clutter), but the problem is they’re still trying to charge print prices there. Why pay $4 for a couple minutes of reading when you get hours of game play from Angry Birds for about the same price. If comic books are to survive, they need to reduce their prices and expand their market. And bring back a regular Aquaman series.

* Wisdom of the Day: “London, the progressive dream: shopkeepers of every race and creed, looted by thieves of every race and creed.” –David Burge

* Fun link I found from Krankor on Twitter: Kim Jong Il Looking at Things