Pretty long zeitgeist this time -- I've been saving 'em up for a while. This story about an Australian woman convicted of smuggling marijuana into Bali hits home partly because I've actually been there. So the US isn't the only country with insanely punitive drug laws. 20 years in prison for 9 pounds of weed? Ridiculous.

And now they want to ban long, pointy kitchen knives in England. Because, in a country where guns are hard to come by, knives are the most common murder weapon.

The joke is dead. Long live the joke. In fact, if you read the story and bring it up while talking with friends, it will inevitably lead to a round of joke-telling.

Poor devils (Tasmanian).

Not only did most of us fail to anticipate the way video phone technology would really catch on, they failed to anticipate the problems it would cause...

"It could break a story like Watergate -- but it no longer has the credibility."

"The media?"

"The truth." More Daily Show goodness.

Cool people who are dead, including great studier of fossils Mary Anning.

When even US News and World Report thinks something's wrong with the new bankruptcy bill you know it's time to worry.