The new Forbes roundup of world billionaires is out, and the interns had an easier time of it this round: Just 793 filthy-rich folks to track, compared to 1,125 a year ago.

If you’re looking for poetic justice, you may enjoy the fact that former AIG head and Big Shitpile Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg lost about 95 percent of his $1.9 billion fortune. If you prefer spit-takes, that still leaves him with $100 million.

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Timothy Lim and Jean Luc Pham present Schulz City, mashing our childhood and adulthood in a few deft strokes.

Frank Miller’s Charlie Brown [Cinematical, via Sully]

Selections from the New York Review of Books classifieds for March 26, 2009.

EROTIC EXPLOSION. Let me blow your mind, your ultimate erogenous zone. Provocative talk with educated beauty. No limits.

CONNECTICUT MAN — author, naturalist — seeks elegant, word-loving lady, 48-65, with eye and ear for subtlety, wry humor, and the natural world. Photo please.

PRETTY, PETITE PROFESSIONAL seeks man, 62-78, who is physically fit, psychologically stable, politically aware, and sexually active for stimulating conversation and good times. Unbeliever preferred. San Francisco.

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• Live in areas dominated by sagebrush.
• Infestations occur in which large numbers form roving bands.
• Create hazards when they swarm.

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So if we understand this correctly, Jim Cramer’s only sin was to make some optimistic calls in a “bull” market — one that was recognizably overvalued, recognizably a bubble, and recognizably a Ponzi scheme.

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We’ve mentioned before our love of WorldNetDaily, your one-stop shop for right-of-Rush infotainment. It you want to know “why leftists love tyrants and terrorists,” you’re just a click away from enlightenment.

Actually, two clicks: One to wade through a page of blurbs, the second to hit the WND Shop to buy the book that delivers the goods. Which is published by — wait for it — WND.

It’s a neat trick, and we envy their success. It also helps explain why WND has suddenly gone millenialist on us, with a couple of stories warning us about the end of the world as we know it.

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It’s the moment of Tyranny we’ve been warned about: an agent of the State denying your Second Amendment rights because your politics are disagreeable, Comrade.

Only this being Oklahoma, somehow the wires got crossed.

Our Oppressed Hero in this tale is Lane Dunkley, a God-fearing American citizen who sought a hunting permit so he could practice his God-given stewardship over deer. With his grandfather.

Lane, you see, is 13.

But you can’t just grab your flintlock and go in Socialist Oklahoma. Instead the local commissars require your attendance at a reeducation session, which they call a “hunter safety course” to fool the patriots.

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