By the Comics Curmudgeon
I will not lie to you: Sometimes political cartoons can be confusing! Especially for you, the unwashed masses, who never got any proper art education in school because your elected officials decided that Americans needed to know more about “science” and “math” and a bunch of poindextery stuff like that. Fortunately, your Wonkette provides to you, free of charge, explanations of some of the more obscure cartoons, straight from the typing fingers of the world’s only professional cartoon explainer. Join us after the jump, and prepare to be AMAZED AND ENLIGHTENED! MORE »

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The Preisdent’s billionth town hall this morning (with a bunch of smarter-than-the-press-corps Johns Hopkins students) was clearly part of his “charm offensive” or whatever the hell their excuse is for sending him to laff it up with regular folk. Hey, maybe it works really well in person, but is anyone else paying attention to the President anymore? The guy does like three of these a day now, and we were gonna ask how he’s still finding the time to do President-law-enforcing stuff, but if rappin’ with the kids distracts him from, say, NUKING IRAN, then we’re all for it. MORE »