…for liberals to actually get up and move to Canada, as they’ve been threatening to do for decades? Lester & Charlie try to answer that question…

Found on the blog of anthropologist and corporate consultant Grant McCracken: Community Colleges, Another View Perhaps as a reply to the TV show that now holds the community college up to ridicule, Kay Ryan, the US poet laureate, has this to say: “I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year [...]

Mike Licht of NotionsCapital has photoshopped up a bunch of clever — if politically partisan — graphics for his site. Many off them riff off of classic paintings or iconic images. Here are just a few: Click on an image to see it full size.

Ted McCagg is a former advertising creative director that posts daily drawings on the Web. This one cracked me up.

Yesterday, we told you about Ecocomics, a site devoted to examining economic principles represented in the storylines of comic books. Today here is a post from that site: Economics Themed Superheroes (and supervillains), submitted by readers using Marvel’s Create Your Own Superhero tool. Check out The Toxic Asset, Taxing Colossus, and Gold Standard. More superheroes/supervillains [...]

After months of delving into unemployment, real estate, health care, and financial markets, EconomyBeat finally gets to the heart of the matter with this post, asking the question:

Does Superman really need the rest of the Justice League?

The answer can be found in Ecocomics, where “economics and comic books collide.” The site is devoted to examining economic principles represented in comic books storylines.

On the question of Superman and the Justice League, we find the answer in a post called The Justice League and Comparative Advantage.

When you think about it, Superman doesn’t need the rest of the Justice League.

In conventional wisdom, every member of the Justice League has a particular strength. Green Lantern can handle weird and alien threats. Aquaman can talk to fish. The Flash can handle armies of lightly armed minions in a heartbeat. Wonder Woman usually takes point on mystical threats. And Batman is the World’s Greatest Detective.

If we consider each of those types of crime-fighting an output, we see that each member of the Justice League is a uniquely skilled producer of that output. Sure, Batman can beat up henchmen almost as well as the Flash can. But Flash can do it better. If Batman specializes in detective work, and Flash specializes in henchman-stomping, the two of them produce more Justice on net than if one tried to do both.

But what if we bring Superman into the equation?

Another dark but clever cartoon starring our friend Smigly.

Let’s visit our cartoon friend Odd Todd again, in Vacation Day. More Odd Todd here, here, and here.

There’s an endless party of CrunchBerries, SpongeBob, and air guitar going on over at Odd Todd’s place as he issues– in the form of another web cartoon–a state of the union report, on the one-year anniversary of his lay off. Click on the image to watch. Laid Off: Annual Report

It’s been five months since we visited the web cartoon “Laid Off” by OddTodd. Here’s another installment called “Help Wanted.” Click on the image to begin. Laid Off: Help Wanted