Random Post: Kate Beaton

I just HAVE to share Kate Beaton. She's been doing a webcomic for a few years, and most people have probably already heard of her, but she's just sooo funny (to me, at least; when I've shown her to other people, I've so far tended to hear "that's not very funny" or "I don't get it". But I'm laughing out loud.) Most of her comics are history-based, and you just have to see the drawings themselves, because she's so good at facial expressions.

Sort-of on-topic, and to make it somehow relevant to the rest of the blog, it turns out that most men don't think women are funny. The most likely explanation seems to be to be because in romantic relationships, men statistically tend to be the ones telling jokes, while women laugh at them - and as a result (so goes my thinking), men get the idea that women don't tell jokes because they're not as funny, though the real reasons are much more complex.

I also have to throw in this quote I read, which is just so funny, it's as good as Kate Beaton:

"It's hard to write about modern politics and not sound like HP Lovecraft.

Considering the fact that the GOP policy "positions" are horribly indescribable and indescribably horrible." - Snarki, child of Loki from the comments section in this Mother Jones blog post.