* Reliable Source: Jamie Foxx canceled his DC show and skipped his afterparty… Karl Rove’s “rapping” thing was funny if you were there, and drunk. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Oh hey Donovan was here saying his crazy hippie nonsense at the Greek embassy… No one may touch the blinis until Lou Dobbs has had his… Happy birthday Gene McCarthy! Your principled-but-incompetent opposition to the Vietnam War cost the Democrats the rest of the 20th century. [Examiner]

Seriously, if it was anyone else, we’d barely notice, but when Hardball (now partnering with EXPERT POLITICAL ANALYSTS AT THE NATIONAL JOURNAL) presents two still pictures and brief clip of Gene McCarthy while talking about McCarthyism (in a prepared, edited video), it’s hilariously embarrassing. MORE »

The major question facing our nation today is not immigration or war or abortion or how those motherfucking snakes got on that motherfucking plane — no, it’s whether political cartoonists will ever stop making jokes about Dick Cheney shooting a guy in the face. Though, uh, it’s not much of a question, as our resident cartoon expert The Comics Curmudgeon learns this week — the answer is pretty plainly “no.”

Still, though, Today’s Cartoons just really want you to like them. All the cross-hatched bloodshed, after the jump.

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