PvPonline has your obligatory Watchmen parody. #1, #2, #3, #4. Vague spoilers if you haven't read the book yet.

Friday, Friday.

* Massachusetts has repealed the 95-year-old law that has been used to block out-of-state gay marriages, removing the last major barrier to nationwide legal challenges of marriage discrimination.

* There's water on Mars (but don't try to drink it). And there's a liquid lake on Titan, too.

* Also in legal news: Bush's claims of absolute executive privilege have been smacked down in the courts. Score another small victory for the rule of law, and start writing up that Karl Rove indictment.

* Garfield without Garfield book announced.

* The Los Angeles City Council has passed a year-long moratorium on new fast food restaurants in South L.A. (More at MeFi.) Food in this country, as we've talked about many times, is in crisis—but this is a symbolic gesture, not an actual policy.

* Also in food news: How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat. Also via MeFi.

* And now you can watch the growth of Wal-Mart across America. Locusts. Zombies. Plague.

The New York Times interviews Jim Davis about Garfield Minus Garfield (previously blogged here).

For someone who doesn't have much use for Garfield, I seem to wind up linking to Garfield stuff a lot. Today's entry is Garfield Minus Garfield, "an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life."

A similar effect has been achieved in the past simply by removing Garfield's thought balloons.

Neither, however, holds a candle to the best work Jim Davis ever produced, the only remotely interesting Garfield comic ever, in which Garfield finds himself driven insane by loneliness while he starves to death in an abandoned home in a Jon-and-Odie-less future. This really happened.