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And how, for Halloween, the unintentionally hilarious musings of Jack Chick.

Those Druids were really spooky. (Haw haw.)

TORONTO (CP) — With talk-show host Mike Bullard moving to Global, CTV is shifting its popular imported news parody, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, into the vacated midnight slot, beginning Nov. 3.

[Zoidberg] “Hooray!” [/Zoidberg]

I don’t play massively multi-player online role-playing games and, frankly, I think the idea of paying for virtual online game items is pretty ridiculous. (This from a larper who recently paid $8 for a handful of “potions” and $30 for a “magic” armband, but I digress.)

That said, Julian Dibbel’s blog about his plan to make a living in trading in Ultima Online items is pretty interesting. I enjoyed reading his debate with a Paypal rep over what contitutes a virtual item.

Paypal’s seller protection policy doesn’t cover virtual items from an online game, you see.

“OK, then what if I ship them tickets to a virtual item?”

“What?”

“The Washington Post has decided not to publish this week’s Boondocks strip.”

What, it’s too offensive to call Connie Rice a bitter spinster out to destroy the world?

I watched the Chinese space launch yesterday and all I could think was “Damn, that is one fine lookin’ rocket.“

I got farked again, but it wasn’t for the article I submitted.

Rat bastards.

Imagine being an alien visiting Earth from a planet in the Sombrero Galaxy. No one would take you seriously.

Kang: Greetings, Earth scum.

Kudos: We have come thousands of light-years to your planet from what you call the Sombrero Galaxy.

Assembled multitudes: (snickers)