Someone took a clip of a Romney/Gingrich debate exchange, added in a classic comedy routine, and had a little fun:

One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated whom Newt Gingrich is said to have asked for an “open marriage.” It was an ex-wife, not his current wife.

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions [...]

The guys at Reason.Tv did a nice job with this one, I think; Lyrics: Grandma got indefinitely detained now coming home to visit Christmas Eve You could say she had a right to counsel but some folks in the Congress disagree she was flying home to our house when she got checked by TSA thought [...]

Andrew Sullivan‘s posting of Team America’s depiction of a puppet Kim Jong Il singing “I’m So Ronery” naturally sent me to look for other snippets from the flick. Apparently, I’m not the only one. NY Daily News (“‘Team America: World Police’ surges as Twitter topic following Kim Jong Il’s death“): The death of Kim Jong [...]

Two filmmakers at Utah State University seek to answer the question:

Consider: Happy Holidays? What are you Governor, some kind of Secular Humanist? Found via Twitter

For those who enjoyed yesterday’s post, more here:  Pepper Spray Cop / Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop.

William Shatner loves deep-fried turkey, but over many Thanksgivings and Christmases he’s made mistakes, burned himself, and nearly burned down his house. In this dramatic retelling, Bill shows us how dangerous turkey fryers can be.

A trailer for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox using dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds

Last night’s opening segment on The Daily Show was brutal for Herman Cain, but hilarious for the rest of us: Part One: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Part Two: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor [...]

It’s a meme that will not die………… Warning: NSFW subtitles

The Rick Perry “Oops!” gaffe from last night’s debate reminds me of one of my oldest daughter’s favorite books, Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton.

Former heavyweight champion of the world and convicted rapist Mike Tyson satires former pizza mogul and erstwhile Republican frontrunner Herman Cain: Herman Cain’s Campaign Promises with Mike Tyson from Mike Tyson Via John Cole, who observes, “The part about tea partiers loving crazy more than they hate blacks made me laugh out loud.” “A restaurant [...]

Diana Wueger passes along word that, “Drinking water from a water bottle is among the lesser known challenges that come along with double-X chromosomes.” I had been unaware but she provides substantial anecdotal evidence.

DEVELOPING STORY: In a well-marked building in McLean, Virginia, hundreds of CIA analysts are reading newspapers and watching cable news networks for information that might be helpful in assessing terrorist networks. Often, sources tell OTB, this information is pieced together in order to then kill people in faraway countries using drones. Additionally, as a wildly [...]

Perhaps I should take this whole “Occupy” movement more seriously: H/T: The Pajama Pundit

Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”

Rick Santorum says Saturday Night Live is bullying” him  for “standing up for the traditional family.”

Jon Stewart describes how “The Daily Show” comes together while wearing a 1st Cav baseball cap. “The best shows are made of the smallest moments,” says Stewart. “Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork, and making that into eight minutes of a completely overblown sanctimonious rant on the apostasy of eating pizza with a fork.”

Last night, Saturday Night Live took on the always interesting world of blog comments sections:

Beginning with “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” a series of tweets with the #CongressHostage hashtag have been decidedly unfunny.

File this one under there’s a market for everything: Greeting card companies have taken a cue from the nation’s 9 percent unemployment rate. In a six-by-four inch envelope, someone can send a friend who lost his or her job a pre-printed message of encouragement and sympathy. Though not available at every corner store, layoff greeting [...]

I’m not sure when “the strippers, JFK, and Stalin” would be used in a sentence given that Stalin died in 1953, when JFK was in his first year in the Senate and thus unlikely to be invited to parties with heads of state, but this is amusing nonetheless: via Brian J. Noggle’s Facebook

Saturday Night Live was back last night and, not surprisingly, their cold open dealt quite nicely with the Republican race for the White House:

Yesterday in New York, President Obama posed for a photograph with an International Open Government Partnership event: The gentlemen who was blocked is apparently a representative from Mongolia.

Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.

When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.

CNN correspondent Sara Sidner is in Tripoli, Libya reporting on the rebel advance into the city. Unfortunately when she was interviewed recently whoever was in charge of graphics at CNN must’ve been someone who flunked geography: There is a Tripoli, Lebanon, of course, but it isn’t currently under rebel assault, and presumably not the hideout [...]

Arturo Trejo conducts a hard-hitting interview with his son, Jose Luis

Rebecca J. Rosen explains why “Ridiculously Long CVS Receipts Will Remain Ridiculously Long.” And Mitch Hedberg ponders why they give you a receipt for a donut.

Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.

Kurt Vonnegut on teaching a computer to write a story.

“Anders Breivik’s crazy list of demands is being kept away from President Obama because Obama loves giving crazy people everything they want”  - Fark

This is simply brilliant. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

  Read it and weep H/T: John Cole      

If you don’t eat your peas you’ll grow up to be a Congressman!

This would be why people from Minnesota shouldn’t try to get all ethnic:

British professor Julian Lindley-French offers a tongue-in-cheek essay for the 4th of July: “American Independence: Time to End the Experiment.”

Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

Florida Today’s Jeff Parker offers this take on President Obama’s Afghanistan “drawdown,” which will culminate in getting American forces down to Bush era levels by the end of 2012.

From Jimmy Kimmel: H/T: Taegan Goddard

Nate Beeler titles his latest cartoon “The Duffer.”

After a decade, the Army is reversing the most hideous decision in its long history.

Two stories that happened to break at the same time: One of the owners of a lesbian website who posted comments from a hoax blogger pretending to be a gay woman in Syria has himself been outed as a straight man from the US. Bill Graber, 58, a US Air Force veteran, admitted he was [...]

Dan Amira reports that several Republican candidates have claimed to have the backing of God in their campaign for the Presidency. Herman Cain, for example, has apparently received his supernatural endorsement via text message: Michelle Bachmann got her calling via a more traditional means. Rick Santorum says the message came via his heart, which, of [...]

This eHarmony video of Debbie, a recent MBA grad from Villanova who loves cats and seems to be having trouble finding a man despite her education and obvious physical charms, is making the rounds: Honestly, it’s not that hard to put cats in a bowtie or a basket, so I’m not sure what the problem [...]

Whoever was in charge of background graphics at Fox News apparently confused Fox News employee Sarah Palin with her doppelganger: The photo behind the post is clearly Tina Fey during one of her SNL sketches: Apparently, Fox can’t tell them apart either. H/T: Noel Sheppard