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At left, Gary Clement's National Post cartoon from Friday. At right, a CBC TV crew spotted on Canwest death watch outside the Post's Don Mills HQ the same day.

At right is the cover of The New Yorker's July 21 edition. It depicts, as Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar summarized, Barack and Michelle Obama enacting "every smeary right-wing stereotype imaginable: ...[Barack] Obama in a turban and robes fist-bumping his be-afro'd wife, dressed in the military fatigues of a revolutionary and packing a machine gun and some serious ammo. Oh yes, this quaint little scene takes place in the Oval Office, under a picture of Osama bin Laden above a roaring fireplace, in which burns an American flag." The image has caused considerable uproar in the States—to take one example of many, CNN's Wolf Blitzer today suggested that it was something a neo-Nazi or Ku Klux Klan publication would create—and Obama's campaign immediately called it "tasteless and offensive."

This, today's Globe and Mail editorial cartoon.

This weekend, resist the urge to do the same old bar hop and try a more sophisticated means of indulging your party ADD: the art show hop. Okay, so we just invented that term, but the city does have three rad art happenings going on almost simultaneously this Friday, November 30. And we say, why choose? To start your adventure, knock back a whiskey for warmth and head down to the Harbourfront, where the...