• GENE WEINGARTEN, YOU ARE CRUEL: Wonkette Internet newspaper troll operative “Eric” points us to yesterday’s Washington Post chat session in which the paper’s official Pulitzer Prize-winning pageview whore Gene Weingarten asked, “The question today is: What other bad stuff is Obama secretly responsible for, and why?” Surprisingly there are only eight pages of comments. [Washington Post]

Molly Ivins died today in Austin after her cancer came back again, making the Texas columnist the second nationally-syndicated American humorist to die this month. (Art Buchwald died two weeks ago. For you kids who only use newspapers as masturbation rap-metal aides on the MySpace, both of these people wrote “columns” for “old people” to “read.”)

The obvious question is Which National Humor Columnist Will Die Next? This is an uncomfortable subject, of course, but journalism often requires the asking of the hard questions so our democracy is better served. Let’s run down the list, after the jump.

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