The haunting resemblance of people, things, and geographic entities to Richard Nixon is much commented on, and the youngsters at Wandering Goblin have a new entry in the Nixon lookalike parade:
Nixon as Vampire 
But, as in so many things, Cuba was ahead of the curve on this one: 

Happy Days Ahead! 
Nancy Reagan speaks to Vanity Fair’s beloved Reagan conduit Bob Colacello, and we learn she communes with the deceased former chief executive.

“I see Ronnie. At nighttime, if I wake up, I think Ronnie’s there, and I start to talk to him. It’s not important what I say. But the fact is, […]

It Came From The Heartland! 
The apparently desperate boredom of the Great Plains has led a coven of University of Illinois students to slap together what we can only hope is the world’s first film featuring Father Abraham as a bloodsucker.

The Springfield premier is this weekend.
You have been warned.

Hugo Your Way & I’ll Go Mine
Along with a Trotsky quoting fan of a 19th century slave holder, one of the joys of Venezuelan politics is the freakishly heterogeneous alliance of groups opposed to Hugo Chavez.
The broad span is demonstrated in a recent article where Venezuelan student leader Stalin González laments the […]

One Man, Our Vote
Greg Grandlin offers a roundup of one interested party’s role in the last twelve presidential elections, and perhaps on his last one.
“Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate” clocks el Lider Maximo’s walk-ons and cameos over five decades.
Vote Early & Vote Often