Larry King returns to reluctantly moderate the “Yahoo! News Funny or Die GOP Presidential Online Internet Cyber Debate.” It’s set up to look like Hollywood Squares and ends with the Reagan speed round, in which candidates see who can say Ronald Reagan’s name the most. The winner is Jon Huntsman but just like in real life no cares about him. The real reason the candidates are there is for “an

Way back in August, presidential candidate Herman Cain chose to close the Iowa debate by quoting a poet, who turned out to be disco queen Donna Summer singing the Pokémon: The Movie 2000 theme. As soon as this happened we should have known “Herman Cain is an Art Project” says Rachel Maddow. She points to other cultural references such as Cain’s 9-9-9 plan originating in the video game Sim City

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thinks child labor laws are “truly stupid.” While speaking at Harvard, Gingrich chided child labor laws for institutionalizing poverty. “It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid. Saying to people you shouldn’t go to work before you’re 14, 16. You’re totally poor, you’re in a school that’s failing with a teacher that’s failing,” said

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is becoming quite adept at sticking things in her mouth, like her foot. On the Tonight Show, Jay Leno challenged her positions on everything from taxes to the gays. Leno asked, “If you become president, and you seem pretty strident in your views, could you comprise?” Bachmann interrupted “Convicted. I’m convicted.” The comedian corrected her, “Convicted? No, you don’t get convicted until after

9/11 conspiracies go mainstream in The Big Lie by Image Comics, a publisher better known for titles like Spawn and The Walking Dead. The Truther comic book, which features Uncle Sam as narrator, has no qualms about being propaganda. “It’s obviously more ‘propaganda’ than those other approaches [referring to titles like Catch 22, Doctor Strangelove, and Veitch's Army@Love]. Using comics to present a political point of view. My art is

Ever since Abu Ghraib, the military has been walking on eggshells to be culturally sensitive. They’ve banned soldiers from cursing or talking about politics, religion or girls around Afghans for fear of offending them. But marines are crying foul on the latest addition to the military code of conduct. The Military Times Marine Corps blog, Battle Rattle, is reporting “audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange because it

Hurricane Irene may have fizzled out but El Bloomito is still going strong with over 20,000 followerusos. New Yorker Rachel Figueroa-Levin created the Twitter account to parody the Mayor’s Spanish storm updates with humorous tweets like “Hola Newo Yorko! El stormo grande is mucho dangeroso!” Rachel promises “I’ll continue El Bloombito as long as it stays fun. I probably won’t comment on other things- I don’t want it to turn

Fans of Sesame Street have long speculated that roomies Bert and Ernie are gay but those rumors have been put to bed. In response to an online petition by Change.org to let Bert and Ernie get married, Sesame Workshop issued the following statement, “Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even

The Air Force is experiencing legal fallout after the revelation that chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base were teaching a questionable ethics course, which included a PowerPoint presentation on St. Augustine’s “Christian Just War Theory” informally known as the “Jesus loves nukes speech.” The mandatory course was intended to teach officers that the killing of innocents can be justifiable for the greater good, and that they should not hesitate to

It appears Congress will meet the demands of the hostage takers (i.e.; Republicans) in time to meet the August 2nd deadline to raise the debt ceiling but the damage is already done. Even if there is no default and we maintain our AAA rating, Moody’s has stated that “As to the longer-term outlook on the rating, the limited magnitude of current deficit reduction proposals suggest that even a timely increase

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes an unflattering cameo in X-Men Schism #1. The X-Men petition the United Nations to dismantle their Sentinels, giant robots programmed to destroy mutants, but Ahmadinejad refuses to “acknowledge the existence of these so-called Sentinels.” His rant is interrupted by a mutant terrorist, who uses telepathy to force all the UN representatives to divulge all their darkest secrets. Ahmadinejad admits “I beat my children. I do

Comedian Dave Chappelle once pointed out the confusion created when a woman dresses like whore then defends it by saying “just because I’m dressed this way, does not make me a whore” to which he replied “but you are wearing a whore’s uniform.” Apparently, Utah House Minority Whip Jennifer Seelig saw the show. Seelig has sponsored a new law, HB 121, that defines sexual solicitation as when a person “with

Finnish food activists calling themselves the Food Liberation Army (FLA) kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue earlier this month, threatening to execute the mascot if McDonald’s did not meet their demand for more transparency about the manufacturing processes, raw materials, and additives used in the fast food chain’s products. “We love burgers, fries and McDonald’s, but we can no longer watch silent when the food we love is being destroyed and

This February NewSouth Books will publish censored versions of “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” that substitute racial epithets like “nigger” “injun” and “half-breed” with “slave” “Indian” and “half-blood” respectively. An introduction by Auburn University professor Alan Gribben contends that “even at the level of college and graduate school, students are capable of resenting textual encounters with this racial appellative.” While children do not even have the opportunity

DC Comics is letting fans choose who will be the new leader of the Legion of Superheroes but unless you’re a major nerd, you probably don’t know who half the candidates are (just like real politics). Fortunately, there’s only one name you need to remember this November: Earth-Man, AKA Kirt Niedrigh. The Legion initially rejected Niedrigh, claiming his ability being to absorb powers was “too limited” but he knew real