American Idle

A source of unending clarity in this mad and mixed up world.

This is from an ad for a Mexican newspaper. More uses of the image of Bush from around the world here.

Love this. Since we know, sadly, that this election will not be decided on anything resembling issues, but instead on personality and themedia “Freak Show”, McCain will have to be marginalized as too old and out of touch to be president. Unlike the smears propogated against Democratic candidates over the last 2 decades, these traits happen to true. Just ask Bill Maher.

Bitterness of Life is pretty good too, but not really in the same league as Some eCards.

I came across this site, The Superest recently and I think it’s amazing so I feel compelled to share. Basically it’s a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. Here are the rules: Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.
The best way to enjoy this is to start at thefirst hero and just click through the Defeated by link. Not all the heros are great. Some are total dogs, but many are incredible and you can really see the evolution both in terms of creativity and quality (both the hero drawings and the hand drawn fonts). It’ll make for a nice diversion from whatever is you’re doing (and, obviously, you’re just killing time, since you’re reading this blog.)
This one slays me, especially the dude with the rake:

Got to love the post-modern cardboard reconstruction. It’s a genre I’m well familiar with.

Life must be tough at the World’s New Leader^TM because CNN is selling shirts. Why anyone would want to buy this, is beyond me, but you can fuck with the URL and ”make” your own shirts:

Continue reading CNN in the T-shirt Biz? …

..at Zombo.com. It’s like virtual soma. It’s makes it all good.