Ben Smith is gathering a small, but growing, compilation of Obama jokes:

A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, “This joke isn’t going to work because there’s no Muslim in this boat.”

Obama Jokes (Politico)

While I was at Coney Island this weekend, I got off a couple of lucky shots of an NYPD chopper sweeping low along the beach. At first I thought this was the best photo.

Until I looked back at this one and, even with my lousy eyesight, noticed someone hanging out the door.

What better way to spend a hot summer Sunday at work?

How Ta-Nehisi Coates could think that infamous New Yorker cover is not overstated enough to qualify as a piece of satire is beyond me.

Everyone knows Obama would have a portrait of Sayyid Qutb over the fireplace before he even thought of bin Laden.

Michelle Obama with a Kalashnikov? Puh-lease. According to the last completely true anonymous viral email I read, Michelle packs an Uzi under her clothes. (Besides, D.C. gun laws, while moving in the right direction, have not not yet matured enough to allow the carrying of automatic weapons in the home or office.)

And an American flag in the fireplace when it could be put to much better and more eco-friendly use in the bathroom?

Come on, that cover is a complete caricature.

Maybe white folks shouldn’t draw pictures of Michelle Obama… (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

• Why the family dinner is good for parents :: Slate Magazine
  My sister and I could have happily eaten every meal in front of the TV, but our parents were sticklers for family dinner time. According to this article, they were doing it as much for their own wellbeing as ours.
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It appears my googleganger has come up with an unintentionally offensive learning aide for kids, Paki the Hippo:

Let’s face it, we all care about the environment but managing energy, water, and waste is a challenge in itself. The key is instilling eco-behavior as a part of our everyday routine. That’s where Paki the Hippo comes in.

Designer Paul Berger created Paki as a edutainment way for school kids to learn about energy consumption. With teeth, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth all articulated, Paki aims to teach in an uber cute way instead of staring at boring graphs and topographic charts…

I can see it now: a bunch of school kids at the zoo, pointing at the hippo and shouting “Paki.” Perhaps a name change is in order?

Paki The Hippo Is Eco-Edutainment (Yanko Design)