It’s been a bit since I’ve posted, but today was just too… ridiculous to let slip by without a comic.

First, I wake up with Congress telling me that the tomato paste in pizza is a vegetable, so pizza is healthy enough for kids to be eating all the time in school cafeterias, right? Now, I have the least responsible diet of anyone I know (Reese’s Puffs for dinner? Check.) But these are kids in school. At the very least, we should be teaching them that tomatoes are technically a FRUIT… right? Unless of course the purveyors of frozen pizza are flying you around in private jets, in which case tomato paste cures leukemia and grants magic wishes.

Next up — today is American Censorship Day. If you aren’t aware of the SOPA / PROTECT IP Act, you have probably at least witnessed a bunch of popular sites plastered with “STOP CENSORSHIP” messages. That’s because the MPAA / RIAA / Hollywood fellas are at it again, this time ghost-writing legislation that gives them the power to shut down sites they don’t like and paying to push it through Congress ASAP.Okay, so the specifics are much more involved, but the gist of the situation is that evil piracy sites overseas are stealing media dollars and “putting American jobs at risk”. Simultaneously, companies like YouTube profit from people remixing and redistributing copyright media. So, what’s the solution? Give the government a giant sledgehammer and let the media companies point them in the “right” direction.

Both of these show what is painfully, painfully obvious at this point. We didn’t elect a group of leaders dedicated to making this country a better place for its citizens. We elected a bunch of corporate puppets who will do anything to maintain the illusion of importance. Unless you are paying for campaign commercials and helping cover up sex scandals, you are NOT a constituent. And I don’t care which side of the zoo you choose to hang out, an overpowered federal government ruled by corporations is NOT what you voted for.

Finally, the DOJ apparently wants to make lying on the internet illegal. Fantastic. Go team America.

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