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

Executive Action After Report?
It’s like the Anna Nicole Smith saga with a slightly more charismatic Larry Birkhead.
The supposed John F. Kennedy lovechild has spoken to Canada’s Globe & Mail, thirsting for dynastic DNA.
The author of A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage is mobilized
to offer up quotes on JFK “vigor” […]

Shape Shifter
The Philippines continues it’s development into a Bizarro World version of America.
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has gone from discussions of her “doing a Ford” and pardoning her predecessor [she did] to her current crisis, where she is urged to “Do A Nixon” and resign over corruption charges.
No word on […]