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Around inauguration time an overnight industry sprung up peddling Obamarabillia to the souvenir-happy folk descending on Washington D.C. and the folks who couldn’t make it to the capital but still wanted a concrete reminder of the event. Now that they’ve had a little time on their hands, DIY craft fans have had their say in [...]

As we transition into an era of high White House approval ratings and slightly healthier national pride, lampooning our new President becomes a more difficult proposition. With George W. Bush a simple headshot was enough to get some laughs, but with Barack Obama satiristas and editorial cartoonists have their work cut out for them. Keeping [...]

Forever striving to explain the history behind retrograde and obscure celebrity fashion, Complex turns its attention to the long, proud history of the black mullet, or, as they correctly rephrase it, the shag. This rarely seen and reclusive hairstyle made a splash on Obamaguration night when rocked by self-appointed boundary-pusher and fashion internship-seeker Kanye West [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]

For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, [...]

Amid the flury of Obamaguration-related posts, we came across a terrific entry from Gawker detailing the small yet rich body of related craigslist postings by people hoping, very naturally, to combine political and sexual bliss. With all the revelers flocking to D.C. – some of whom are planning an Orgy for Obama apparently – it’s [...]

It’s inauguration day, the second sort-of holiday in a row for many Americans, and as with every festive occasion in our great land, it’s a perfect occasion to peddle completely useless gifts. Over the last few days we’ve witnessed a veritable internet groundswell of items about Barack Obama memorabilia (hereafter “Obamarabilia” for short). In a [...]