Monday, February 23, 2009 | by nathan

Weekly Reader – 23 February 2009

I Was A Regency Zombie
"Minor pandemonium ensued in the blogosphere this month after Quirk Books announced the publication of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” an edition of Austen’s classic juiced up with “all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem” by a Los Angeles television writer named Seth Grahame-Smith. (First line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”)"

This Is Why You’re Fat
One of the funnier blogs I’ve come across in awhile. America can produce food like this but not a car that gets 30 miles per gallon or most of our electricity on our own or a way to keep Sarah Palin busy for, oh, the next 60 years?

Cussin’ Obama
I’ve listened to all of President Obama’s audiobooks during the last year, so these potty-mouthed excerpts from "Dreams From My Father" didn’t shock me, necessarily. Still, I have to admit that having the President say "This shit’s getting way too complicated for me" might make a perfect ringtone…