Duck, duck... suck.

There are some things that just unequivocally suck, like Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle, and the lyrics to A Little Bit of Life by Craig Morgan. But the one thing that sucks more than a line of Rhoombas that wraps all the way around the sun is the "comic strip" Mallard Fillmore, by Bruce Tinsley.

I was in fact all set to go on a tirade about it, except that Wikipedia as usual beat me to it, with its lightly contemptuous, tounge-in-cheek description: "Mallard yearns for the "good old days," and views himself as a victimized underdog in a world that is being overrun with political correctness, religious secularism, and hypocrisy." The article then goes on to list his common targets, like Barbra Streisand and 'Kids today, what with their rap music and video games.'

Even Jon Stewart preemptively covered what was going to be the essence of my tirade: that Bruce Tinsley is not in fact writing a comic strip, but rather uses the four panel format as a soap box for trite conservative viewpoints, because god forbid we would want a single corner of the media to fail to reflect trite conservative viewpoints.

Anyway, it's all been said. So never mind.