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Recently, while recounting some of the greatest old school screen exploits of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, we’ve come across some pretty questionable cartoons. Between Daffy fighting Nazis and Japanese army pilots and Bugs Bunny being chased by a blackface Elmer Fudd, well, we thought we’d seen it all. Apparently not, though, as mental_floss’s listicle [...]

Beloved Warner Bros. character Bugs Bunny turns 69 today (his first appearance under that name aired on July 27, 1940), and what better excuse to watch some old WB clips? Technically, for the animation history sticklers out there, Bugs made three televised appearances before earning his name, so you could say that his birthday is [...]

We know the Obama administration is up to its neck in financial reform and bailout messiness, but we also know that the squeaky wheel gets the grease (right?). In that spirit, we greatly appreciate this listicle from Slate suggesting 10 Bush Cases Obama’s Justice Department Should Redo. The list covers all kinds of DoJ injustice, [...]

The handsome gentleman at right is your new greater-of-two-evil-parties party chairman, Michael S. Steele. The former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland took over as chairman of the Republican National Convention last week, and looks to be more prominent and proactive than his predecessor Mike Duncan.
Judd Legum over at the Huffington Post would like to introduce you [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]

Our ability to lose ourselves in endlessly repeating the antics of Seinfeld’s Kramer was trumped somewhat by an incident a couple years ago that you may remember. That said, we’ve been off the Kramer wagon for long enough now that even a little dose of the nutty next-door neighbor is enough to keep us chuckling [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]