[High Praise! to The Looking Spoon]
For its upcoming cover, The New Yorker has chosen to turn innocent childhood icons into something inappropriately adult and splash them across the front of a nationally-distributed magazine:

Look, liberals, Bert & Ernie are nothing but a felt-covered parody of the Odd Couple for young people. If you insist on inserting your agenda into this, how about we insert a discussion of the unfounded rumors about Obama’s… um… discreet indulgences into an alternative lifestyle?



We’ve all heard stories about mythical creatures running around. The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, chupacabra, mermaids… creatures that don’t exist.