By the Comics Curmudgeon
Did you know that no object in the universe is entirely unique? It’s true! Many things, it turns out, look like other things. Sometimes things don’t look like other things, but they’re like other things, at their essence, in what we call a “metaphor.” Sometimes you see a thing and you think, “That thing can’t actually be what it looks like,” but have no idea what it actually is! And sometimes, very rarely, you find out that one of your neighbors is keeping the president’s corpse in his refrigerator. MORE »

In the beloved tradition of “Is Eliot Spitzer Secret Phone Muppet?”, we bring you this picture of Treasury creep Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner and this pot-reeking piano-playing lunatic from the classic kids film Reefer Madness. Have these two ever been seen together? No wonder Obama doesn’t want to legalize his dope — then Geithner would really go bananas.

Oh look what Alaskan numbskull Sarah Palin is wearing now: It’s an Imperial death smock, just like what’s his name, Peter Cushing, wore in the fascist movie Star Wars. Tomorrow, inevitably, she will wear a bear suit. [Gawker]

Look at him. Of course he’s always smiling. He is a short old man surrounded by long luscious women — young women, too. When he loses elections, movie stars invite him to live in their mansions. Here’s Dennis Kucinich in a hot-lady sandwich as featured in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. MORE »

Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Greetings, Wonkette readers! Welcome back to that popular and intermittently recurring Cartoon Violence feature, “This Thing Looks Just Like That Thing!” Here, we pick on poor political cartoonists who happen to produce cartoons that look almost exactly like some other cartoons, and then arbitrarily declare one to be better than the other, which is probably really unfair of us. After all, there are only so many current events, easily lampooned images, and collectively understood icons to go around, am I right? Plus cartoonists are all chained to their drafting tables by their employers and forced to churn out comic after comic (some of which on the worst of the worst, the local political scene) and so they don’t really have time to call each other up and say, “Hey, are you doing to a ‘Blackwater/Creature from the Black Lagoon’ bit? No? OK, I’ll do one, then.”

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And it’s a sort of zonked-out rampaging blue elephant — about to crush 2008 itself beneath its gigantic front legs and staring in starry-eyed horror at its bland sans-serif cage. Also as this guy points out, it looks like old Philly A’s logo (on acid.) MORE »

Is this gentleman a member of the Taliban, ready to fight and die against the American invaders in the name of radical Islam, or a jam band kid, ready to smoke a bowl and twirl for a while to a 70 minute String Cheese Incident guitar solo? That simple question is the impetus behind “jam band fan or taliban,” an exciting new entry in the “is it this thing or that thing that looks like this thing” field.

Jam Band Fan or Taliban?

Perfect for the newest Cheney’s trips to the beach, chilling at the pool, or field trips to Iraqi prisons!
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Hey everybody, there’s some new craze on MySpace where you put a picture of yourself in this program and it spits out some headshots of famous people who supposedly look like you. Well, the nice people over at Sadly, No decided to help out busy Dick Cheney and make this nice chart: MORE »

Hey everybody, remember Ronald Reagan? He was sort of the George W. Bush to George W. Bush’s dad’s Dick Cheney, back in the day. Anyway, turns out he kept a diary in the White House or something. Also, he was apparently a founding member of The Wiggles: MORE »

At top, the terrifying, totalitarian logo of the John McCain campaign. Below it, the charming, identically-starred logo of British CANADIAN, WHATEVER, THEY WORSHIP THE SAME QUEEN packaged foods-manufacturer McCain. Further proof that WALNUTS! takes everything good and wholesome and turns it into another pawn in his world domination fantasy. MORE »