How impoverished is a political system when an lowly author is an enemy that demands as much attention as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did in the days of the Soviet Union. Who is the Chinese author who will make an impact of this size? Read the obit for yourself if the name doesn’t ring a bell.

Did you read that Canadian psychologists, the Gold Brothers, are claiming that they have identified a new delusion — “patients who claim they are subjects of their own reality TV shows.”

This delusion has always been a key strategy for staying sane. What am I going do now?

I am stunned by the sheer number of reality shows. I think these shows are just dumb.

Who actually watches all these shows? Who cares about the alliances? Who cares about the lurid revelations? Who cares about the he said, she said nature of it? Who cares about these twisted competitions?

Wonder Woman 03, originally uploaded by bbaltimore.

I was sitting around thinking about what comic book heroes hadn’t been made into movies. The one that jumped out at me was Wonder Woman. It turns out that there was something going on, but it appears to have gone off the rails somehow.

We aren’t going to have a woman president as far as I can tell, can’t we have a female super hero on the big screen?

Can you tell Linda Carter was one of my first “loves”.

Being a Bloom County fan I never could stand that fat cat Garfield. At the same time I am totally intrigued by the “Garfield minus Garfield” website. I can’t believe how good the strip is if you simply remove the main character. Check out the interview with Jim Davis in the Washington Post and get the low-down on what the original artist thinks of this re-mix.

I know I’m a little comic obsessed at the moment. This was made with Comic Life. I love the program, but it’s a little slow on Windows. I’ll bet the Mac port is better.