Public-service comics usually don’t fare well, mainly because the Message tends to undermine the Fun. But when the Centers for Disease Control tackles an outbreak of the Undead, it’s a match made in Zombie Apocalypse — you do have an emergency kit, don’t you?

Plus, this:

“I’m pretty sure Mrs. Clements was trying to attack her own cat, and she just nearly got me!”

Our only quibble is the cop-out ending, where the CDC enjoys a happier fate than it does in The Walking Dead.

Centers for Disease Control’s Zombie Comic Teaches General Emergency Preparedness [Comics Alliance]

“An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of ‘Angry Birds,’ a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds.” [NYT, via @pourmecoffee]

Title: “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

Author: Pat Buchanan

Rank: 20

Blurb: “America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.”

Review: “Pat’s thesis is clear throughout the book: America is disintegrating before our eyes. ‘What happened to the country we grew up in?’ It’s a question that I, as someone born in 1960 and someone who shares Pat’s Christian beliefs, can identify with.” (Fr. Charles Erlandson, Tyler, Texas)

Customers Also Bought: “Why Catholics Are Right”, by Michael Coren.

Footnote: If you’d like to return to the days when Papists were scorned by polite society, fine by us.

Suicide of a Superpower [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

I love it when comedians do things like this. Go to YouTube and search “Larry King Game” to watch them all (audio NSFW):

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“Putting aside the entirely legitimate liberal criticism of Obama’s prosecution of the war on terror, his penchant for secrecy and his disappointing civil liberties record…” [Greg Sargent/WaPo]

God’s honest truth: When we first saw this Army poster – yes, it’s real – we thought the story would be about using kitties for improvised explosives.

And the second thing we thought was highly inappropriate.

Anyway, once you’re done giggling – really, it’s okay, how can you not? – here’s the sobering background:

The Army is redoubling its search for anyone who might have been bitten by a wild animal in Iraq or Afghanistan following the Aug. 31 death of a soldier from rabies, the service’s public health command stated Wednesday…

Spc. Kevin Shumaker, 24, became the first soldier to die from rabies since 1967 after he was bitten by a stray dog in Afghanistan.

Even worse: Shumaker actually received thee of six shots. But the final three had expired.

So yes, this is very serious business, and shame on you for thinking otherwise.

But still.

Army seeking troops bitten by stray animals following rabies death [Stars and Stripes, via Wired]

“Former Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina may have not have been able to run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination after his 2009 cheating scandal, but he will at least get to talk about the campaign on national television — as a paid contributor on Fox News.” [NYT]