Sen. Hillary Clinton almost made it through last night’s debate without a scrape. She came out crisp, assertive and confident. She held her annoying smirks to a minimum and seemed to respectful to other candidates, attentive even. But did anyone notice she looked weird? It was horrible! Her eyes were dead and her face appeared waxy and paralyzed. When she spoke, her words and mouth movements never quite linked up with her eyes. And that seems, shall we say, a little unnatural. MORE »

The New York Times has a delightful round-up of all the godawful campaign merchandise offered by all the leading presidential candidates… and Ron Paul, too! Soon all the kids will be wearing McCain hoodies, Obama baby-doll tees and Giuliani baseball jerseys. Our favorites by far are the extensive wares offered by Mike Huckabee’s shop, a dizzying array of merchandise featuring superb graphics meant to appeal to his followers’ lack of grammar skills (”a.Huck.i.be”) and love of flop existential Hollywood comedies (”I [Heart] Huckabee”). MORE »

Good morning! Princess Sparkle Pony here, and I’ll be tarting the place up today and tomorrow as guest blogger. I don’t know about you, but few things are more important to me than what grows out of the heads of the various presidential candidates, and I’m not talking about the extra face on the back of Dennis Kucinich’s noggin (have you ever seen a photo of the back of his head? I didn’t think so.)! MORE »