#28

FOX Nation. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. The ability of the user base to immediately politicize literally anything is astounding. Go click on any story, and just scroll down to the comments. I just can't look away; it's like a train wreck. Look, I don't care what your political beliefs are, but if your first response to a natural disaster is A) "Yay! God hates [insert policy]," or B) "I wish the opposition leader was there so he could have died," you suck. Plain and simple. And I want to emphasize that we didn't cherry pick the worst quotes. We picked the ones that were short enough to fit in the strip, but we had plenty of options from one story on the earthquake. Oh, and they think The Onion is real. So there's that too.

That said, I'm really glad it wasn't a worse quake. I was stressed for a couple hours until I heard back from all my friends and family in the area. It's just one of those things where you know it's probably fine, but you can't stop the nightmare scenarios running through your head. The longer it takes to hear from someone, the more you convince yourself that something happened.

#27

So Jared and I were having a discussion the other day. Basically we are scared shitless of the fact that we are actual adults now, with real jobs and real responsibilities. I'm getting an intern, for God's sake. Unpaid. I'm told that this is the best kind. Jared edits videos of famous actresses (I should point out that someone is actually paying him to do this, he's not just because he is a creep). But being an adult presents some problems.

Basically as a kid, one sees adulthood as a discrete condition, an increase in status with clearly definable perks. Adults can drive, have jobs, and know the answer to all problems. And they certainly don't read comic books. Becoming an adult was supposed to be like leveling up, but it's not. The fact is, growing up doesn't change who you are. Our friends at Craked have realized this as well. The truth is more difficult. As it turns out, when you grow up, you don't become a different person. In a lot of cases, you still like and do many of the same things, and you make life up as you go. I think the secret is coming to terms with the fact that everyone else is too.