The Eyes of Silver Breeze

Everyone is getting stupid. Not you or us, obviously. We mean everyone else; and there's no greater bastion of the coming idiocracy than reality TV. Shows like American Idol, 16 and Pregnant, and especially Jersey Shore not only toll the bell for the dumbing down of the planet, they revel in it, begging you to distract yourself and laugh at the dregs of humanity while you continue to get fatter and dumber and easier to placate so the totalitarian corporate power that rules the world through its control of media can continue to steal our rights while we watch The Bachelor.

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Solely in the public interest - and not at all because I'm personally burdened with a ridiculous debt now several times larger than the amount I borrowed when I was 18 - I humbly direct your attention to this awesome Consumerist infographic on the evolution of the student loan from social-service program to burdensome rip-off.

Okay, okay, jeez! Were you all only children or something? Just because we do an HTML5 post once in a while doesn't mean we like them better. Here's your little flash game of the day, Brick Hole.

To see this right, as far as we can tell, the Arcade Fire want you to be on a 15" MacBook using Chrome. It'll still work with Firefox on a 12" screen, it's just gonna really start to bug you when the little popping windows start activating. Also, if you're doing work or anything, that's probably not gonna fly. But for all you hipsters lounging in the coffee shop who can just focus on this GENIUS piece of ART… hey, enjoy it! The Arcade Fire presents The Wilderness Downtown, an interactive video where you can listen to their music as you see… pictures of your childhood house.

Every week in this space, we’ll take a look at the news and offer our own incisive blend of commentary, analysis, and poop jokes. The news you need, from a voice you can trust, in the 90 seconds you have to spare: that’s Woot Weads the Wire.