The big news today shows that we are not — as every politician says — in a recession after all! A “recession,” of course, is defined by two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. And in Q1 2008, the American economy grew by 0.6%, just as it did in Q4 2007. Take that you Liberals; you and your wretched Doomsday scenarios! Sure, the actual Great New Depression may only be starting right now and lasting another 50 years. But for right now, George Bush ‘n’ Tax Cuts have saved the economy again! [AP/Breitbart]

Hey look, it’s a map renaming states after countries with similar GDPs! This is like a wacky Boing Boing item, but with less robot tapestries and fried iPods. [Strange Maps via Matthew Yglesias]