The erosion of the Elmo brand.

The Daily News has a story about Charla Nash, the woman whose face and hands were ripped off by a chimpanzee back in 2009. She just settled...

Century-old cartoon of the "class-conscious worker" handed out at Obama's Madison rally yesterday.

Not handed out by the official campaign, just by some guy there: ( Enlarge. ) The sturdy, manly worker in overalls is holding a scroll marke...

Have the big papier maché puppets arrived?

Yes. And the Guy Fawkeses .

"Zelda Fitzgerald was a Chaos Muppet. So, I must tell you, is Justice Stephen Breyer."

Dahlia Lithwick is doing Muppet Theory. Via Throwing Things .

"Who's going to save you when you get attacked?"

Here's what today's rally at the Wisconsin Capitol was like for me: If you don't know the "last time" that's refer...

At the Wisconsin protests today — one year after protesters stormed the Capitol.

As the Wisconsin State Journal puts it: "Union members rallied outside the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday to mark the anniversary of th...

"There is a constant dialogue between the authoritarian Putin, the tyrant, who has a constant erection..."

"... and the more democratic (anti-Putin), who shows no aggression, no eroticism, and has no penis."

"So, there's this petition going around asking that Bert and Ernie — yes, the yellow and orange dudes from Sesame Street — get gay married."

Notes Nicole Fabian-Weber: Anyone who knows me... knows that I'm all for gay marriage and anything that will aid in tolerance; and am ar...

"[W]atching Steve Whitmire’s Kermit is akin to watching someone imitate a mythic and longed-for mother..."

"... my mother — wearing a my-mother costume in a my-mother dance routine. This person’s heart is in the right place, which only makes...

At the Liberty Café...

... you have the right to be left alone .

Intimidated by Liberty.

Yesterday at the protests, the Statue of Liberty got in face. Stopped. Loomed over me. And swooped down at me. Live free or die, baby. Die, ...

Vintage Ventriloquist Dummies.

Some are hip... ... and some are square.... And there's more !

A man and his Scott Walker puppet.

Hey, the Facebook page said bring puppets ...

Wisconsin street theater: "Come along, Scottie."

The Koch Brothers and their puppet, Scott Walker. (Video recorded by Meade yesterday.)

The April 4th protest.

There was a Martin Luther King theme... (Because we remember his death today.) Jesse Jackson was there: Waiting in a tent for his turn. A ...