GingerDead and Friends is a darkly funny webcomic created by Calan Ree. The main characters-Gingerdead, his twin sister Vendetta and his skeletal girlfriend leNoir- star in strips that are a pinch gothic, a shake punk with a heaping side of haiku. You can find more GingerDead products at the CafePress store; the items I selected below are from the Etsy shop.  

Light Reading: Were you just sitting there thinking to yourself “Self, I really want to know more about the Gaussian copula function?” Well, you are in luck, my friend, because Wired magazine has an article detailing that very formula. The article’s title- Recipe for Disaster: The Formula that Killed Wall Street- hints at what the formula is and why it is important.

George Will exists in the same journalistic sphere as Bill Kristol in that he gets to declare whatever he’d like to be true- even to the point of manufacturing evidence- with little fear of occupational retribution. Which is a fancy way of saying he works for the Washington Post. He also seems to live in a cave.

Obama’s speech before Congress was satisfactory but not spectacular. It was erudite and engaging, sprinkled with populist phrases and encouraging enough to keep the market from going into a free-fall. Variations of the word responsible were used a dozen times. A metaphorical finger was wagged at the banking industry. Health care, energy and education got top billing. But the speech came up lacking on specifics- perhaps by design.