Video: Batman interrogates the Joker

I had read the reviews about Christian Bale’s bizzarre, growling Batman voice in The Dark Knight, and I first saw this video last summer.

Well, we just got around to watching the movie over the weekend (Happy Valentine’s Day, honey), and I have to admit, I had no idea how spot-on this spoof was. I couldn’t take any Batman scene seriously. SERIOUSLY, ARGGHH!

Feb. 17, 2009: Now just another, ordinary day

Last night, WHIO ran an hour-long special from 7 to 8 p.m. explaining every. single. minute. detail about the Feb. 17 switch to digital television. So I missed Wheel of Fortune last night for nothing?!

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered 123 broadcast television stations, including Dayton’s major network channels, to cease their planned early switch to digital signals on Feb. 17.

The stations, which had been previously granted permission, now must stop the transition until further notice, the FCC announced…

Recent legislation has set June 12 as the new date of transition…

“Millions of Americans, including those in our most vulnerable communities, would have been left in the dark if the conversion had gone on as planned, and this solution is an important step forward as we work to get the nation ready for digital TV,” Obama said.

Apparently two years of ads, a free coupon for digital converter boxes, endless reminders on local TV and even a NASCAR sponsorship weren’t enough to prepare us all for “the transition.”

It was enough to give me a migraine.

Video: Are you the Change you’ve been waiting for?

Reason.tv interviewed some Obama supporters in D.C. on Jan. 19, the night before he was inaugurated.

Using Obama’s rallying cry that “We are the change we’ve been waiting for,” the videographers asked supporters, “What are you going to do differently now that Obama’s president?”

Interesting answers. Think anyone says they would not be active in service if McCain had been elected?

Notice the people in the background throwing shoes at a giant blow-up doll of President Bush.

Inspiring.

News you can use

As someone who used to work at a newspaper, I can attest, this comic is so true.

Don’t let this happen to you, too

It’s probably already too late. We’ve all been victims of it — or at least, we know somebody who has been.

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