This Just In: New on the Net

I basically gave up the comics page when Bill Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes, but I still get a kick out of This Modern World and a couple of others. Until this morning, I hadn’t seen Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions, and it’s pretty funny. Today’s installment is called "How to Have a Horrifying Conversation." Anyway, here’s the news:

• The heads of the Big Three are back in front of Congress today, and this time, they brought a plan, instead of just a big bag to haul the loot back to Detroit. But that doesn’t seem to matter much to the public. 61% of folks don’t want to help Detroit. CNN
• Generally, I like tend to like the shows on NBC—Medium is great—more than those on CBS or ABC, so I was surprised to learn it’s fairing so poorly in the ratings. So what does that have to do with cars? Well, it means Knight Rider’s future looks sketchy. LA Times
• Love it or hate it, Honda has been successful at just about everything it’s tried. But "just about everything" doesn’t mean "everything." It looks the company’s F1 team is on the block. GrandPrix 
• As far as excuses go, "God told me to do it" is pretty thin. So the idiot who rammed a San Antonio woman at 100MPH for "not driving like a Christian" should probably get busy coming up with something else. My San Antonio via Jalopnik