Top Ten Sunday Washington Post Comic Strips from May 24th: Selfie Narcissism is Vast and Growing

Greetings to our blog readers in Slovenia, Pakistan, and Canada....

Today, we look at our ten favorite comic strips from the Sunday May 24th edition of "The Washington Post" as we listen to an old Doc Watson bluegrass song on "Back Porch Music" from WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC)........

Both "WuMo" and "Lio" made fun of the selfie sticks which are apparently retailing for $30 at Target stores here in the United States. "Lio" went one step further by putting Frankenstein taking a selfie with Lio, the ten-year-old boy who is the title character of the comic strip.

Though it did not make our top ten "Mark Trail" had a cute educational strip about gorillas; it even featured King Kong.

Here is the top ten:

1) WuMo

2) Lio

3) Brewster Rockit: Space Guy

4) Speed Bump

5) Foxtrot

6) The Argyle Sweater

7) Sherman's Lagoon

8) Pearls Before Swine

9) Dustin

10) Knight Life

http://www.washingtonpost.com/comics

Things We Learned from Twitter Today- Wrestler's True Cause of Death

In a tweet from Slate.com this evening, we learned that former pro wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage, 58, who was a rival of Hulk Hogan's in the 1980s, actually died from a heart attack as opposed to a car accident.

It was widely reported and logically assumed that a car accident claimed Savage's life in May as the car he was driving hit a tree in Seminole, Fla. (near Tampa). But, an autopsy report released today has proven that a heart attack actually claimed the former wrestling superstar's life.

In other tweets, though I do politically differ with my libertarian friend Chris Knight of Reidsville, NC, since I am a centrist to liberal Democrat who only wishes Barack Obama could have as many terms as FDR, I did love this biting proclamation by him which everyone can assuredly sympathize with:

"Said it before and will say it again: American politics is two identical cages of howler monkeys throwing handfuls of dung at each other."

Since the Turkish newspaper "Hurriyet" reported this week that that there were similar bickerings between conservatives and liberal parliament members in Ankara, Turkey, (I am a Turkish-American), it appears that Knight's viewpoint is one usually felt around the globe.

SIDEBAR: For those who like to stay up even later than me on Friday nights, TCM will air the 1958 Boris Karloff film "Frankenstein 1970," which should not be confused with Andy Warhol's version (or the Mel Brooks film "Young Frankenstein" for that matter) at 2:45 a.m., immediately following a marathon on B-westerns starring Roy Rogers and his beloved horse Trigger. The screening is part of the late-night series TCM Underground, which was once hosted by Rob Zombie- of all people!