For serious?

I must admit I'm mildly (and only mildly) ashamed that I receive the bulk of my news from the Daily Show and Penny Arcade. For those of you that don't know Penny Arcade is a web comic starring Gabe and Tycho, who are in turn the comic's artist and writer in that order. The two of them cover a large variety of issues in their work, but it is normally centered around video games and the other wonders of modern technology.

I wouldn't have heard of half the shit I have if Tycho didn't love showing how ridiculous our society has become by having Gabe draw up things like this...



When I first saw the comic strip (I always read his strips before reading his blog section about the latest strip) I thought it was just some joke I didn't get. But sure enough after reading Tycho's blog he even provided links to the news articles explaining that those in charge of President Obama's appearance actually released an official statement that the Zune sighting was a fabrication and that President Obama carries his iPod everywhere.

I don't know what's more frightening... The fact that we have government officials concerned over shit like this... or that this is potentially the kind of shit people would care about during an election that has shaped our country as a whole.

Anyway, chances are this isn't the last time I'll be commenting on something that comes up in the new Penny Arcades (granted that was a pretty old one, but the following is todays) as Tycho always manages to find the news that makes me want to tear my face off.

On a more recent note, this weeks PA Comic was as follows.

If you don't get it... that's fine... either did I. But apparently a mother... let me correct that... several mothers (in the midwest I might add) believe that their daughters dolls and a specific Nintendo DS game (Baby Dollz or some shit) is telling their daughters that "Satan is King" and "Islam is the Light." Which... even if they were saying those two things would simply make no fucking sense. Either way, it scares me that this is the kind of shit people are worried about, and I'm highly considering ranting about this for my Humorous Writing presentation on Thursday... but we'll see... oh we will see.

- Vance