Tina Fey: America’s Sweetheart

This morning, everyone will be sending everyone this link to Saturday Night Live’s debate parody. It’s just awesome. For me, the money line was Tina-Fey-as-Sarah-Palin’s opinion on gay marriage: “I believe marriage was meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers.” Zing!

The next month will be a rocky one for Barack Obama — John McCain is devoting all his resources to attack ads and the racists are coming out of the woodwork — but he’s got a solid counteroffensive with a new website detailing McCain’s dreadful financial history and there’s this letter from March 2007 showing how Obama anticipated the mortgage crisis and tried to take action before disaster struck. Wouldn’t that be a refreshing change?

But first, we need some attack ads in Canada! Artist Fred Gaysek thinks Stephen Harper seems awfully familiar and he’s betting you might think so too:

And while we all ponder how to vote out an “arsehole” like Stephen Harper, we ignore the larger danger: can John Barrowman be stopped? The gay Broadway star is filming the third season of ‘Torchwood,’ has kids playing with his action figure and is clearly out to conquer CHUM-FM with this mushy first single from his upcoming album:

 

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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