It's about time someone started making fun of Joe Biden. That guy's been getting a free pass for years…

A little more than a year after John McCain threw conservative debutant Sarah Palin her coming out party, the country still finds itself with a chronic case of Wasilla Fever!

Just take Levi Johnston. Not only is he getting his own not-brave-enough-to-get-naked spread in Gay Fancy Magazine (or something), but he's also having tales sung of his brave adventures by ironic-pianist balladeer Ben Folds, whom, I promise, Levi Johnston has never ever ever heard of.

But what about Sarahcuda? Where's her folk ballad? She's twice the folksy ballaverick her granddaughter's father is. Well, she doesn't get a song; she gets a whole opera!

"Say It Ain't So, Joe," a presentation by Guerilla Opera, opens Saturday at Boston Conservatory's Zack Box Theater. The work is composer Curtis Hughes' musical take on America's favorite moose-hunting winker, you betcha. It focuses on that contentious — and sometimes comical — debate from October 2008 between Palin and Joe Biden…

"It is a tragedy about Palin," he said. "Both characters view themselves as saviors of America. And even though I'm not trying to hammer people on the head with a single interpretation, you know that Biden will triumph in the end. But the central figure certainly is Sarah Palin. I found myself having this odd pathos for her, a pathos I would not have felt if I were not writing music for her."

What an interesting coincidence! I've found myself with an odd pathos for a lot of things for about a year or so now.

The Auto-Tune the News people turn their vocorders toward the health care/grandparent murdering debate…

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Joe Biden, it appears, can be rather eloquent if he really, really, really sets his mind to it…

Who needs waterboarding and sleep deprivation when you've got a good baker…

00Bama, Episode 1: Barack Vs. Domestic Terrorism

From Atom.com's Is the Obama Honeymoon Over? channel.

If you're like me, then you've seen things.

And one of the things I've seen is this Barack Obama/Joker/Socialism thing that's been floating around this thing that I've seen called the Internet.

And then a still other thing I've seen is this Free Ideas for Right-Wing Poster Artists thing that helps you take a well-known left wing personality, a pop-culture facial affectation and a random political ideology and turn it into a meaningful piece of protest art.

For example…

That'll show them left wing pinko hippy atheists!

(via BuzzFeed)

Update: From the comments…

On the plus side, the drawing of Darth Biden does have better implants than the original. (WIDTAP)

That is probably the best line you'll read on the blog today.