It’s really amazing that a Comedy Central spoof news show has amassed so much clout that they can now openly mock New York Times executives in the New York Times’ own house.

To the chagrin of progressives everywhere, the Obama budget was released last month without any alteration to the 20-year old ban on funding needle-exchange programs.

According to White House Spin Meister Ben LaBolt:

“We have not removed the ban in our budget proposal because we want to work with Congress and the American public to build support for this change.”

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This ad man’s ballad is almost as touching as the original.

Terrific illustration depicting what a warmup exercise must be like at Apatow film camp. This piece comes from the mind of Dan Park, who is responsible for all sorts of insightful artistic mischief…

Anti-weed advocates are slowly being painted into a corner. Realizing that the good old modes of propaganda and fear mongering aren’t fooling teenagers anymore, crusaders are turning to circular logic in an attempt to confuse and disorient those still on the fence. Gateway Theory is an old standard, along these lines: If smoking pot makes you more likely to shoot pure anthrax into your left ventricle, then clearly it should be kept illegal, right?

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According to TechCrunch, China has really ramped up its censorship fervor recently. Visitors have reported blockages on Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, in addition to the well known kiboshing of YouTube.

Users speculate that the new wave of intolerance is in anticipation of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, coming up on Thursday.

I suppose one way to demonstrate your evolution as a nation is by petulantly denying any wrongdoing by your former notoriously oppressive regimes. It must be, since our own debonair and worldly President has adopted similar practices, in protecting and preserving Bush administration abuses of yore. All that’s left is to rope off the Bush family archives and sequester all relevant commentary. Done and done.

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Today’s object lesson on the consequences of having a rational national drug policy comes to you from the Netherlands.

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Is it just me, or does this video carry more weight by virtue of the German narration?

This piece has a little Monochrom flavor to it. Yes, they’re Austrian, and I get the distinction, but they both do the German-accented anarchical satirist thing.

Here’s an example.

Originally posted on The Fresh Scent.

Like a hungry stoner scavenging through the kitchen cupboards for a stray graham cracker, the US Border Patrol has found its resources sadly lacking recently. Amidst administration demands for more recruitment and hiring, the Border Patrol has turned to a tried and true tactic of depleted armies throughout history — conscripting children.

The Explorers Program, a Boy Scouts of America affiliate, trains the pubescent in the art of raiding dens of iniquity, seizing illegally imported goods, and patrolling barren wastelands. In the words of a California sheriff’s deputy involved with the program:

This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl.

While it’s unclear what his hermaphroditic reference is all about, it does seem like a wonderful opportunity for these kids to participate in the formative experience that is pepper-spraying a starving immigrant right in the eye socket. That kind of invaluable interaction will really put some hair on the chests of our next crop of soldier-kids.