• February 13, 2012

Obama

Father’s Day is this Sunday — how can you make sure that your gift to Dad wins the morning? As luck would have it, many legal Creative-Americans have beautiful shirts, stickers, and other items that will totally please your Pops. Your Wonkette found many such treasures at our favorite old retail haunt, CafePress. Let’s look [...]

Gallup wanted to find out how the Gulf’s ecosystem will react to the oil spill, so they decided to ask the experts, the American public. And according to poll results released today, American women think beaches and animals in the region will be profoundly affected by the oil spill, whereas American men know that stuff [...]

Recently House Appropriations Chair David Obey decided not to seek reelection after being in power for 41 years because he’s afraid of losing to some MTV reality show contestant. Now with a raging case of Senioritis, Obey doesn’t care anymore about putting effort into being a politician people don’t hate and came up with the [...]

The reviews are in for the president’s big Oval Office speech last night, and the consensus is “Meh, this is stupid, why did I watch this stupid thing, this is stupid.” If the pundit class is bored of his speeches, can Obama really continue to be president? Probably not.

Rep. Steve King of Iowa discussed the Arizona That-Man-Is-Eating-Salsa-He-Looks-Suspicious Law on yesterday’s G. Gordon Liddy Show, which of course is something that exists (and is part of an all-Watergate programming block, sandwiched between the Ghost of Nixon Show and Human Resources With H.R. Bob Haldeman. Steve King gave his fans the Tea Party version of [...]

Our Savior is intent on collectively improving health by banning popular foodstuffs that are bad for us (we can call it “prohibition” since that has a great ring to it). If Obama can keep his BMI index thing so low and smoke all he wants, certainly you can do your President proud by picking up [...]

By the Comics CurmudgeonHey, everybody, did you miss your Cartoon Violence? I’ll bet you did! Your Comics Curmudgeon missed you too, though I have to say that I didn’t miss wading through hundreds of political cartoons on a regular basis, satisfying as it is to smite ’em in the end. And as I dove head-first [...]

The New York Times did some super-excellent journalism in Sunday’s magazine: an honest to God 14-page article (complete with an interactive map!) that details the eating, drinking, fornicating, and even religious habits of the 20-somethings who work in the Obama administration. As it is our job to tell you what to do in DC, as [...]

Barack Obama personally uninvited Billy Graham’s crazy Christian jihad-son “Franklin” from speaking at the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer potluck. Death to America! [RedState] Meet Scott J. Bloch, one of the Bush Administration’s stupidest Jesus freaks in the Justice Department who tried (and failed, hooray!) to destroy America from the inside. [The Awl] Americans face [...]

“A tortured history of Obamacare?” No no no. Barack Obama is a total yellow belly: He always reads histories their Miranda rights. [RedState] Car theft. Rape. Same thing. Get over it. It’s Kansas. [Think Progress] Do you have naughty dreams at night about organizing Jonah Goldberg’s collection of Star Trek dolls (from tallest to shortest, [...]

Um. De-tag? [White House Flickr Feed]

THIS IS WHAT LATE-PERIOD HOPE LOOKS LIKE: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” Barack Obama tells Diane Sawyer. Anyway, if you had “Obama evidences a fundamental misunderstanding of his options” on your pre-SOTU drinking game, you win, or lose, or whatever. [ABC News]

Everyone’s threatening Facebook statuses worked!! NBC will pay Conan O’Brien $33 million dollars, and he can go back home to the television in eight months. [Los Angeles Times] Obama has decided that our country’s commercial banks can’t be as big as they want or trade for their own accounts, which is a thing that’s problematic, [...]

Barack Obama has said a controversial “No, thank you” to the King of Norway’s very kind and very obligatory lunch invitation! Sometime before or after Obama’s hawky peace prize acceptance speech, everyone expected our President to feast upon Scandinavian pleasantries, possibly in a palace, with the King, like people did constantly in Medieval times. Who [...]

The President of the United States went to Norway to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. This is the most controversial thing that has ever happened. [New York Times] Meet our nation’s next hated thing: it is “Ginnie Mae,” the absolutely terrifying-sounding Government National Mortgage Association. [Washington Post] Defense Secretary Robert Gates is currently touring Iraq [...]