Today’s Onion front page has delightfully transformed into a Chinese Communist Propaganda Rag. Here is the top news story for consumption by the proletariat.

Cute lecture by Ian Bogost of Persuasive Games about his five year old’s struggle to balance his virtual finances.

SlashFilm is reporting that several independent producers are going to finally bring Voltron to the big screen, including Dark Knight producer Charles Roven.

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As a professional contrarian, I’ve often held to the notion that once something is well-liked by too many people, it can no longer be of decent quality. Despite this tendency, I went into a showing of Box-Office Leader Bruno, last night, with high expectations. Sacha Baron Cohen, in my opinion, had the chance to transcend the usual Hollywood nonsense and become an important satirist — a figure that could actually bring insightful commentary to the increasingly vacuous American public forum of debate. My hopes were soon lost in the nether-regions of a hideously bad movie.

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Baby Boomers are a too-often ignored victim of the sprawling nest of debauchery known as “Teh Internets.”

via Maximum Fun.

In what surely isn’t a sign of the impending apocalypse, a giant as-yet-unidentified organic mass is floating past Alaska this week, heading for warmer waters and possibly looking for retribution.

According to the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department, the mass is “thick, and dark and gooey,” with hairy strands running throughout, and feeds on six-pack holders and sea lions.

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Former BBC Commentator and financial analyst, Max Keiser, takes Goldman to the woodshed in this Crossfire-style show…

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This week, Mets apologist and former Dykstra fanatic, Jon Stewart, recapped the gutty, gritty, former outfielder’s fall from grace. Not only is this once revered player an admitted steroid user, he is now known as a financial scam-artist after trying to pass himself off as an investment guru.

The only thing left is to try for the infamy hat trick, with a cameo appearance on To Catch a Predator.

Fun little tutorial on the progress of the TARP program by NPR’s Marketplace Senior Editor, Paddy Hirsch.

It’s Arnie’s world and the rest of us are just living in it. The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting that California is on the precipice of mandating that debtor institutions accept its IOUs as payment.

While this would nominally allow California to stave off impending fiscal doom, the ramifications of doing so are fantastically interesting.

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