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 »

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

You know, we here are Cartoon Violence don’t only seek to toy with the poor ink-stained wretches of the cartooning commentariat, savaging their earnest and eager offerings with our smug, postmodern wit. We also seek to enlighten you about how these cartoons are produced, from both an artistic and a business viewpoint. Of course, it would be easier for us to do this if we knew a damn thing about the subject ourselves! But as extensive readers, enjoyers and critiquers of comics, we have at least gotten to the point that we can recognize the artists by name and sometimes even by style.

Once we started reading political cartoons obsessively, we noticed that a lot of them are penned by artists who also have gigs in the regular funny pages, nestled between Dilbert and Garfield. While few of the giants of either genre cross over — you won’t see Darby Conley or Lynn Johnston attempting to come up with a visual representation of campaign finance reform, or Jeff Danzinger or Pat Oliphant poking gentle fun at middle-class suburban foibles through with two racially diverse families — but some of the middle-of-the-pack types cheerfully straddle both sides of the fence. Since we are all about judging, shaming, and deciding who lives and who dies, Cartoon Violence this week voices its opinion on which career is the true calling for each and which the hackwork that pays the bills on the speedboat.

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Senator Chuck Grassley, discussing Rudy Giuliani with Iowa reporters: MORE »

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Thank our American God the law is coming down hard on these two terrorists. The men were hired by the “Time Warner” company to leave little cartoon things around Boston, which caused a complete shutdown of the once proud city.

Other sinister men left the same comical things all over other, smarter U.S. cities … weeks ago … where they went unnoticed. Meet the new face of evil, after the jump.

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A cartoon watched only by college students who smoke marijuana set off a huge terrorism scare in Boston, a city still reeling from the Patriots’ loss at the hands of al-Qaeda. Suspicious objects were found planted across the city in a mysterious and ominous pattern, leading to the calling in of bomb squads, the shutdown of train stations, and the closing of the Charles River to traffic. MORE »