Sometimes when I’m not carefully it’s easy to forget that Barack Obama is not the president. As I’ve joked previously, this election sometimes feels like a St. Louis mayoral race where the only battle that mattered was between the Democrats slugging it out. The Republican nominee is usually so neutered by the Dems’ massive political…

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This makes, what? Four now? This comes via Vanity Fair online. We had our own presidential campaign cover in the works, which explored a different facet of the Politics of Fear, but we shelved it when The New Yorker’s became the “It Girl” of the blogosphere. Now, however, in a selfless act of solidarity with…

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Sayeth one commenter: “… (Y)ou know we cannot publicize this type of shit until the second wednesday of November. Please remember that.” (Picture from Fly Cliche)

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After taking forever and a day I finally expanded my Snob store at CafePress.com. Now you will find all sorts of designs, from my Snob logo girl on the masthead to my Andy Warhol echoes of Lil’ Kim. Here’s a small sampling of some the designs and wares.

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I rarely pay attention to FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly. Mostly because I think he’s irrelevant and not a real journalist … and I think he knows he’s not a real journalist on a fake news network and it kills him inside, hence the thin skin and nuttiness. If anyone saw Bill-O’s interview with Mike Wallace…

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All right. Who is orchestrating these things? Stephen Spielberg? Cecil DeMille? Starring a cast of thousands. In fact, a cast of two-hundred thousand? TWO-HUNDRED THOUSAND GERMANS? In Berlin, waving American flags, cheering for the-man-who-could-be-president? Three words: Jimminy Fucking Crickets. This makes American Obamamania pale in comparison. I’d love to see what would happen if he…

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Image from My So-Called Strife blog It was October 2004. The show was CNN’s 24-year-old political stalwart, Crossfire, then hosted by Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson. For shits and giggles they invited Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host and comedian Jon Stewart. Stewart started with a smile, but began the most uncomfortable, historic dismantling of…

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