Starting the day off

My morning reading has revealed two things that made me laugh:

Matt Groening says that Fox News threatened to sue over an episode featuring a fake news crawl. Apparently, the crawl featured such stories as:

Democrats cause cancer? Find out at foxnews.com ... Rupert Murdoch: Terrific dancer ... Dow down 5000 points ... Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay ... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party ... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple. [via Jason]

He also accurately points out that the fake headlines are almost as funny as the potentially real one: Network sues itself.

and...

This picture from Om Malik.