EVEN THE BIG BANG THEORY ISN’T IMMUNE TO MUGGERIDGE’S LAW: As Tom Wolfe has written, “We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.”

Shot: From 2012, Raj Koothrappali, you horny transhumanist maniac you:

Chaser: Man ‘marries’ his laptop, sues for state recognition and a wedding cake.

—The Washington Times, yesterday.