Here is a heartwarming story: a little boy- or girl-child writes to Barack Obama to say, “Hey man whatsup I want U 2 B purznit” (that is how children write today, in America). And Barack Obama, a man with infinite time and letter-writing resources, pens a unique personal response to each and every one of these precious children and signs it with a nice blue pen! Barack Obama is a magical patron of youngsters — like Santa, only real! Except that he is a fraud. MORE »

Brad Warthen of the South Carolina’s The State has a controversial opinion about John Edwards! His controversial opinion, which he, Brad Warthen, thought of himself, and which he is going to share you with you now, is as follows: John Edwards is a phony! A big fat phony! A big fat goddamn phony! Here is the proof: MORE »

Bronx-born Berkeley grad Michael Alan Weiner is one of the last merry pranksters of the North Beach beatnik-poet scene. The “free love” alternative-medicine guru and very dear friend of the late homosexual poet Allen Ginsberg realized his lifelong dream of being a subversive comedian like his hero Lenny Bruce, when San Francisco’s KGO allowed him to “prank” the talk station’s listeners in 1994 with his outrageous Andy Kaufman-esque creation called “Mike Savage.”

Learn about his hilarious run for the White House — watch out, Arabs & Mexicans! — after the jump.

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