Brian Gongol
Learn Chinese...from the British...on the Internet
Delivering safe water to the world
No one seems to know whether Berkley Breathed is going to kill Opus
It would be preferable if he didn't. Even if he retires from a weekly Sunday strip, it would be nice to keep the character "alive" in the public mind, so that he could occasionally show up elsewhere -- perhaps online, even, whenever the spirit moves Breathed. For some reason, good cartoon characters begin to feel like real people, and we don't want them to die.
Cedar Rapids Gazette tells Associated Press to take a hike
Iowa's second-largest newspaper has notified the AP that it plans to withdraw from the organization, protesting rate increases and service cutbacks.
"And, unlike Apple, the short-tempered megalomaniac who founded Microsoft has retired"
A cartoonist delivers a great set of lines about the Mac-vs.-PC debate, in a way that Microsoft's huge, expensive new ad campaign seems to be incapable of doing.
