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Oh here is a cheery “hump day” cartoon for your New Depression, courtesy of Jeff Danziger. [DANZIGER CARTOONS]

Oh look, it’s America, the nation of 11-year-old fat kids who lack the intellectual capacity to process anything beyond comic books. Have you heard about the greatest work of cinematic art in history, 300 Explosions With Batman and Joker? It’s the most “mature” of this year’s crop of 500 fucking movies about comic books, according to Critics who haven’t seen a film made for grownups since about 1978, when the last ones were produced. MORE »

OKLAHOMA DEVIL-HOMOSEXUAL COMIC GUY ON CNN: Hilarious accused felon & Oklahoma county commissioner Brett Rinehart tells the teevee news, “I’m not even sure as to what ‘homophobic’ means, but let’s just keep in mind that we are in a cultural war.” [CNN/Raw Story]

By the Comics Curmudgeon
“Why can’t you draw something nice for a change?” This, I imagine, is probably what hard-working political cartoonists hear from their parents all the time, as their chosen profession requires that they use their talent exclusively for drawing political figures, who are both evil and physically unattractive, rather than depicting, say, handsome movie stars frolicking with adorable baby seals. But does spending so much artistic energy on the jowls of our political leaders lead to an unhealthy fascination with the ugly and the disturbing? Let’s meet some artists who have stared into the abyss a little too long. MORE »

THE BEST TEDDY ROOSEVELT CARTOON YOU’LL READ TODAY: Katie Beaton might be our favorite web cartoonist since Chris Onstad. This one’s called “Theodore Roosevelt on the Presidency.” You might also enjoy this one, about the assassination of President James Garfield. The history sections are all awesome, the end. [KateBeaton.com]

We usually save the political cartoons for Fridays, but Jeff Danziger himself sent us this one today, and we are going to have terrible, terrible nightmares about Mark Penn tonight, again. [Danziger Cartoons]

Anthony Lewis reviewed Glenn Kessler’s Condiography The Confidante in yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Book Review, and, you know, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. It all just seems like an excuse to publish the accompanying illustration, an absolutely fab drawing of Condoleezza Rice by the excitingly-named Noma Bar. If you’re reluctant to click the link, see a full-sized screenshot of the illustration and learn more about the artist after the jump…

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Jesus, that was fast. Entire political scandals can now be turned into cartoons within mere hours. Also, this video was supposedly made by Larry Craig himself, according to the e-mail we just got from, uhh, Larry Craig:

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Well, this changes everything. Let’s do the numbers, after the jump.

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Formerly beloved childhood icon Mickey Mouse has shown his true colors: he’s as reflexively anti-American as any other coked-out limousine liberal Hollywood star. MORE »

It’s all Andrew Sullivan all the time! Well, not really. But rastafarian blogger Matthew Yglesias is moving to the Atlantic Monthly website and leaving This American Life or wherever he used to work. MORE »

Why does South Park get away with every possible racial and sexual and religious and whatever-other-things stereotype, week after week — while poor Don Imus is out of work and only has like $100 million dollars? Andrew Sullivan has cracked the code: It appears the South Park characters are not actually living creatures but simply cartoons of some sort. MORE »

* GW’s Kalb Report features a panel discussion moderated by Mr. Kalb himself and including “Ann Marie Lipinski, senior vice president and editor of The Chicago Tribune, Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports, Cliff Sloan, publisher of Slate and vice president of business affairs and general counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, and Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and vice president of Dow Jones & Company.” Free but tickets needed, at 8PM at the National Press Club. [NPC]
* Spend seven animated minutes watching Elmer Fudd chase Bugs Bunny through Wagner’s operas in What’s Opera Doc?. Stay for The Scarlet Empress, Josef von Sternberg’s “wildly stylized life of Catherine the Great” starring Marlene Dietrich. The Goethe-Institut, $6 at 6:30PM. [Goethe]
* Joel Westheimer “explores how schools mediate national patriotic sentiments” as he discusses Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America’s Schoolsat Busboys & Poets. Free at 6:30PM.

Jim Samples, head of Time Warner’s Cartoon Network, stepped down in disgrace today in the wake his his companies foiled terrorist attack on Boston. MORE »