Reason’s Greetings to all this blog’s readers.

One thing I hate about this time of year are the best/worst lists and highlights. But I will make an exception for Ted Rall’s choice of what of his own work he liked the best, because I missed some of them the first time around. (Click on each to enlarge.)

Rall is one of the best political cartoonists around but he is not picked up by the major outlets probably because the things he says are outside the mainstream consensus and will make people uncomfortable by challenging them.

From That Mitchell and Webb Look.

I have shown this before but this Daily Show take-down of Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson never fails to crack me up.

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That unctuous Roman Catholic priest Jonathan Morris is so clueless that he does not see the absurdity of claiming that prayer is good but talking to an imaginary person is bad. (via Pharyngula.)

I am tempted to write some more verses, each ending with “I’m proud to be a Charlie Darwin fan.”

This clip that I showed some time ago illustrates why Time magazine’s choice of Mark Zuckerberg as its Person of the Year is completely appropriate considering its audience.

TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults

Although the magazine’s online poll resulted in an easy win for Julian Assange with 382,026 votes (with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a distant second with 233,640 votes), to no one’s surprise they ignored their own poll and gave this utterly pointless marketing gimmick title to Mark Zuckerberg, who came in 10th with a measly 18,353 votes.

Over at Saturday Night Live, we get Assange’s reaction.