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If you watch TV (I don't), especially the comedians that have been giving us the news during the Bush years, you'll note something different since Bush was replaced. There is no Court Jester in Chief. I irregularly catch Jon Stewart and Bill Maher online, and they've been, well, pretty nice so far to the new president. As the Economist reports , it may just be too hard to make fun of a guy you like ... or, like his other super-human abilities, Obama also has the power to deflect witty barbs. Not so at the Onion of course, where everyone is open for lampooning. Taking the suggestion from the Economist, I went over to the Onion and searched for articles on Obama. Here's a sampling of the titles: Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny's Obama To Hold Job Performance Review With Every American Worker Unusually Level-Headed, Charismatic Lichen Species Named ...

Businesses are pouring over the detritus of your online life in hopes of finding meaning in your silly one-liners to each other. The end goal -- to sell you more -- to target you for advertising -- to entice you to part with cash. What they haven't realized yet it seems, is that targeting you with online ads just doesn't work. How many of us actually see the ads on websites? Even the intrusive ones. The real question here however, is are you OK with what is being done with your personal interactions with your friends? You're no longer being captured by CCTV cameras anymore. Now, every keystroke is being monitored. Read more at BusinessWeek .

I'm Canadian, and I got 9 out of 12 questions in this very American quiz from Pew Research . I did better than 59% of the general public -- which I assume, is mostly American. The only questions I got wrong were on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, US national unemployment rate, and how many Americans were killed in Iraq. The latter of these two are decidedly American questions -- I should have gotten the first correct. Oh well. But I still did better than most Americans. In this quiz, males did better than females; educated did better than the uneducated; and the older did better than the younger. I think the general public is scary. This is just more proof. Average number of questions answered correctly.