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When, two weeks ago, actor Matt Damon called the possibility of Sarah Palin ending up president “a really bad Disney movie,” not only did he mention a prospective employer in an untoward way, but he gave the good people at CollegeHumor.com a hilarious idea.

[via BoingBoing]

When I first saw this photo, I absolutely could not stop laughing: On the left is the packaging photo for a kiddie pool, a “water park,” it says. On the right is a picture of the actual pool once you unpack it. It’s almost like, it’s not a pool, but a fun way to teach kiddies about the concept of bait-and-switch.

[via Boing Boing]

McCain’s VP nominee is just getting a free pass from the media. Can you believe the stuff she’s saying?

Who would have thought in 1983 that “Thriller,” Michael Jackson’s landmark, then astronomically-priced $500,000 music video, viewed from a certain wan perspective, was really just a compressed foretelling of his dementia and decay?

UVA grad David Murray, maker of this most excellent T-shirt, above, that’s who. Sizes SM-XXL at Seibei.com, $22.

Tina Fey-lin: Impersonating the Republican VP nominee on SNL

Former Not Ready for Prime-Time Player Tina Fey helped open the 34th season of Saturday Night Live by playing the role she was genetically formed to play: Alaska governor / G.O.P. VP nominee Sarah Palin, above.

With cast member Amy Poehler doing her manic Hillary Clinton jibe, the two delivered five funny minutes straight from the headlines and from Palin’s disastrous interview with ABC news anchor Charles Gibson, completely overshadowing the fact that Olympic octomedalist Michael Phelps was hosting and platinum rapper Lil Wayne performing.

If you missed it this weekend, check it out on YouTube before NBC tears it down like they do everything else on the service. Or, better, just go to Hulu.

After Alaskan governor / Republican V.P. nominee Sarah Palin—above, with youngest daughter, Piper, and John McCain—gave her presentation at the Republican National Convention last week, like you, I kept getting asked what I thought of the speech.

“Oh: It was a great speech,” I’d respond, utterly serious. “A great speech.” A beat. “It was complete nonsense. But it was a great speech!”

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Funny or Die.com, the folks who brought you Paris Hilton as a presidental candidate, now give us the unendingly sexy Gina Gershon as McCain’s running mate. Funny as all get out, yes, but here’s the crazy part: If you’d seen this two weeks ago, before McCain had announced Palin, you’d have figured these guys were just wacko, correct?

Click on the pic, above: Is it me, or is Republican presidential nominee John McCain, in full view of his wife, Cindy, rear, checking out vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s behind?

[via BuzzFeed]

Were Alaska state governor Sarah Palin, left, and 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey separated at birth?

[Via Kath•arsis]

I bought MAD magazine‘s hilarious Barack Obama parody on sight yesterday, only $4.99 cheap! HuffPo ran the story, but my question is the same one I had when I saw the hacked artwork documenting Obama’s illegal wiretaps vote: Who’s gonna try swingin’ a placard-sized version of this at the Democratic National Convention, next month?