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Hi, friends. You may have noticed we took yesterday off. We were too busy laughing at this Washington Post story, which includes the following passage:

When one reporter asked if his house guests were named Rob Portman or Tim Pawlenty — the two most-buzzed-about potential vice presidential candidates — he just laughed.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha," Romney said.

But now we're back and ready to carry on our mission of getting people to visit our site for anything other than the Rob Liefeld list entertain you fine folks! Enjoy.

Donald J. Sobol, author of the Encyclopedia Brown series of books, was murdered at the age of 87 in a vicious gangland slaying allegedly orchestrated by convicted felon Bugs Meany. Police say they failed to secure the alleged murder weapon, an icicle, before it melted. In Sobol's honor, do yourself a favor and revisit "Wikipedia Brown, And The Case Of The Smashed Snow Globe," by our very own Bill Hanstock.

You might also notice a change on Progressive Boink. We've now got specialized sections so you can conveniently check out our recurring features without digging through our archives. Over there, on the left sidebar! Check 'em out!

Shameless plugging of my mediocre music journalism! Check it out.

Hi! I thought you jerks should know that I've just uploaded a new, searchable list of everything we have ever posted on Progressive Boink Classic between 2003 and 2011.

By my count, that's 439 posts, from the NBA Jam post that started it all, to Bill's two days with "Glee."

The filter script is something I found on the Internet, and it's a pretty nice way of narrowing down posts by title, author, date or subject. But it's not perfect and I haven't done this in a while so shut up.

If you've been with Progressive Boink for a while, miss the old The Dugout comics and wish we were still doing them, get excited -- The Dugout is a regular feature at With Leather under the watchful eye of editor-in-chief (and P-Boi contributor/co-founder) Brandon "B" Stroud. Also we did them for four years at AOL FanHouse, but I guess you wouldn't know that. Thanks for following our careers, jerks!

Anyway, today's installment goes over San Francisco Giants Matt Cain's perfect game, features Jesus Christ typing in red and names every Astros player a man can possibly name. Check it out.

I love these columns.

hey you guys, what if we really are just in a black hole, i mean holy moly, that is just like that men in black movie with the fresh prince! I mean, Orion's Belt! what a doozy!