Explain THAT comic to your kid

Took a day, but Shia LaBeouf has apologized.

What's this all about? Here's Wired:

By "remarkable," we mean "lifted the words directly from the comic and used them without crediting the author."

And so on. The next scene is the same as the comic. And so on.

Don't be too hard on Shia; it's so easy to get lost in the creative process, put your name all over everything and forget the person whose work you hovoered up. Oh, there might be a nagging sensation you're missing something, but heck, if it was important, you'd have remembered.

As for that apology, well, here's BuzzFeed today:

That it is. Let us know when that happens.

Santa's boiled.

COMICS Odd moment in "Heart of the City" today.

The readers who like the strip are not amused.

RANDOM INFORMATION While looking around for a picture of the Paul Bunyan Restaurant in Yreka, California, I was drawn to the large portion of the town's wikipedia page called "LYNCHINGS." There were two notorious examples, the second of which concerned Clyde Johnson and Robert Barr in 1935. After a robbery they were stopped by the cops; there was gunplay, and a beloved local cop and WWI vet, "Jack" Daw, was killed. Clyde was caught; Barr hopped a freight and got away. After Daw's funeral, a mob showed up at the jail, removed Clyde, took him out in the woods and hung hum. This page on lynching quotes the California Attorney General, referring to the recently delayed execution of an accused murderer, stated that the "uncontrollable unrest" was a natural result of the "apathy of the Supreme Court of the United States."

That's not why I bring up Yreka. The guy who got away:

Anyway, Proving that the world was a more curious place in the 30s, and that newspapers knew how to give people what they want, here's another story from the front page:

I've no idea if they're true, but this is what newspapers used to consider front-page material. Which, of course, it was.

Oh but there's more, at least about Yreka.

That would be confusing.

Lest you think this happened recently: the desire to get out from under the thumb of the existing political order happened . . . .in 1941. Hope they weren't intent on keeping the country out of WW2: