Author and personal-appliance salesman John Hodgman did a very witty “nerd hit” on so-called American President Barack Obama on Friday, but was it accurate, as far as the various classes and career paths of Hobbits? Today’s Email of the Day from “Madison” may answer this important question! MORE »

Oh here’s John Hodgman, author of the weird and hilarious The Areas of My Expertise, who is apparently also a “minor television personality,” who knew?! And here is his very sly “roast” of the president, Barack Obama, at some event covered by C-SPAN. Worth watching just to see Obama cracking up over the hinjinx of the Birthers. Also, there are hobbit jokes. Basically, EVERY WONKETTE MEME OF 2008-2009 is in this John Hodgman routine. [C-SPAN/YouTube]

• Toby unloads on “Bitch Session,” where gay men — “traditionally known for their near-stubborn reticence when it comes to expressing their thoughts, feelings and personal affairs to anyone within earshot” — can unload. [VividBlurry, who, btw, is begging for votes for the Urban Blogger Awards. Throw the boy a bone.]
• “Did you ever read or encounter a book when you were a kid that talked about how it was okay to masturbate?” [DCeiver]
• “Dude, I’m so baked. Hahaha. Butterspliff is more like it. Hahaha.” [BBBS]
• The City Paper comes to the defense of the “longtime paying subscriber,” “the fluorescent light bulb of the ongoing debate over how to save newspapers.” [WCP]
• John Hodgman reads the names of 700 hoboes tonight at the Warehouse Theater. [DCist]