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Who cares what Obama’s presidential portrait will look like? Illustrator Alexander Barrett has beaten the Warhol-hugging prez to the punch with his spectacularly Warholian series of images portraying All 44 U.S. Presidents’ Portraits as Pandas. Our favorite has got to be Pandaham Lincoln:

(via The Daily What)

The 35th American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born 92 years ago today, which makes this the perfect occasion to count down memorable screen incarnations of the nation’s favorite playboy head of state and mysterious martyr. Enjoy John in all his forms and incarnations with our 7 Stately Screen Versions of JFK.
Clone High

Having him play [...]

Another week has gone by and another slate of listicles we can barely keep up with has been published. Even with the addition of our list-submitting service, The Listocracy (start submitting lists today!), we’ve been unable to cover the Interweb’s perpetual cycle of lists. In this edition of our list-of-lists survey, Weekly Wednesdays, we chronicle [...]

When we look at the fine print, it’s almost absurd how many books get banned by some administrative body. Like in 7th grade we started making a comic book with our friends and our teacher totally banned it before it was even finished or she could make any serious evaluation of its content. On the [...]

Yes, presidential facts on Presidents’ Day can be fun, but they can also be devastatingly terrifying. Like presidents, some are remembered fondly (or at least benignly), while others are downright shameful. Atlantic Monthly has put together a helpful map-shaped graphic to remind us how bad the last 8 years were with these 50 Bush Years [...]

Did you leave milk and cookies out for the president? We really hope he brings us all the Presidents’ Day gifts we asked for in our letter. We tried to not to be too demanding, but it’s hard not asking for much when there are so many things we need really badly. Maybe if he [...]

Today is the bicentennial of Honest Abe’s birth. Had he been a land tortoise (one not shot in a theater box, as so many are), he might even be around to celebrate with us. Sadly, our one and only Lincoln was taken from us, and so we’ll have to make do with more-or-less pale imitations. [...]