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During British PM Gordon Brown’s visit to D.C. today he took a moment to dish out an honorary knighthood to Ted Kennedy. We’re picturing something between a Secret Santa and a pizza delivery, with Brown’s speech going like so:  “And for our favorite senator, Ted Kennedy, we brought… a knighthood with honorary toppings!” Of course, [...]

By the time you read this post, New York Governor David Patterson will have announced his pick to replace Hillary Clinton as New York Senator. The winner, after Caroline Kennedy dropped out, is Kirsten Gillibrand (pictured at right), an upstate Democratic Representative. Though we see Patterson’s fixation on finding a female replacement for Clinton in [...]

We find it fascinating that both the Republicans‘ and Democrats‘ zoological shorthands come from Thomas Nast cartoons. Supposedly today’s press is supremely powerful, but back in the 19th century clever satire could eventually become official signage. Today, the best we can do is delightful postmodern bricolage and pastiche, taking wonderful symbols like those popularized by [...]

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 [...]

If we’re looking at movies that might influence today’s new U.S. President Barack Obama, it’s rather worrisome to note that his favorite movie is The Godfather. Hoping that Obama doesn’t turn out like Don Vito Corleone, those tireless film archivists at Future of Classic have parsed their DVD libraries for movie presidents whose onscreen behavior [...]

A few years back (we can’t say how many) we took an American Politics 101 class during our freshman year of college and learned all about the American tradition of Gerrymandering. Aside from the tactical partisan redistricting practice’s funny name, we didn’t think a whole lot of it, and the knowledge quickly sank into an [...]

Call it the backlash against the backlash: after heaping wild hopes on president-elect Obama, and then turning around and professing in a disenchanted manner that he’ll invariably disappoint us, we’re now back to piling on the starry-eyed expectations.
That said, here at Listicles we prefer unreasonable expectations to presumed disappointment, in which spirit we pass along [...]

The devout defenders of democracy (often by way of satire) over at Wonkette entered the fray of blogs posting Bush retrospectives last night with their rebuttal to a non-satirical Weekly Standard piece entitled “Bush’s Achievements: Ten things the president got right.”
Wonkette and The Weekly Standard highlight the same ten Bush policy points, but for obvious [...]

Last month Ben Cohen over at The Daily Banter provided this useful guide for seeing through neo-conservatives’ social camouflage. It came in very handy during holiday parties and the like, and will undoubtedly remain vital for socio-political chit-chat in the year ahead. Check out the top 3 below, then click through to read all 10 [...]