CAN OBAMA SAVE STRUGGLING MAGAZINE INDUSTRY BY GOING SHIRTLESS? Today, like every day, is “sex day” here at Wonkette. Our local porn rag, The Washingtonian, features a topless photograph of President Obama and his precious boobles in its May issue. Now click that YouTube link in the post below and you will have everything (minus a cold glass of Franzia white zin) for a very hot date with yourself, loser. [Washingtonian magazine]

Our own Jim Newell is a modern day NOSTRADAMUS. Just four days ago he wrote about gays hatin’ on Pastor Rick Warren, “This furious resistance will last, at most, four days, when new shirtless pixxx of Obama in Hawaii will leak to the Huffington Post and everyone will forget about gay invocations or whatever.” Well, they leaked to TMZ, but otherwise A plus! You really can write the news in advance. Photo by Bauer Griffin. [TMZ]

Way back in December word leaked out that Vladimir Putin was working on a fancy judo video. That glorious day has arrived, and now when John McCain looks into Putin’s eyes he will see a “JU” in one eye and a “DO” in the other eye, with “I love you” written on his eyelids, just like in the Indiana Jones movie. MORE »

Barack Obama publicly taking off his shirt in Hawaii — or as Reuters puts it in a headline, “Obama takes shirt off again” — is such a cheap topic of discussion that we had to make it, in fact, a topic of discussion, between yours truly and Sara K. Smith, in a chat, after the jump. MORE »

By the Comics Curmudgeon
“Why can’t you draw something nice for a change?” This, I imagine, is probably what hard-working political cartoonists hear from their parents all the time, as their chosen profession requires that they use their talent exclusively for drawing political figures, who are both evil and physically unattractive, rather than depicting, say, handsome movie stars frolicking with adorable baby seals. But does spending so much artistic energy on the jowls of our political leaders lead to an unhealthy fascination with the ugly and the disturbing? Let’s meet some artists who have stared into the abyss a little too long. MORE »