Holding signs at your opponent’s rallies really sucks. Let’s forget about the interminable wait and aching feet because the candidate you want to protest is hours late. Let’s forget about the critics who think your sign is completely unoriginal or pretentious. But spending an afternoon being pelted by white-hot bigotry, ignorance and sexism? Freedom of speech indeed.

Photoshop is more hilarious than ever! Whether it’s a blogger blending John McCain’s face onto a rhino or pranksters putting both candidates’ faces over crunkers in a dance video, there’s a subversive kick to seeing creative types seize the tools of image-making—of propaganda—and mashing them up into fresh, funny commentaries on the absurdity of campaigning in this media-soaked era.

Presidential elections can be the best drama on television. The twists and cliffhangers of the latest Bochco, Kelley or Zuiker potboiler have nothing on the emotional reactions this campaign has caused. How about the first appearance of Sarah Palin, a “star is born” moment if there’s ever been one? Or Obama accepting the Democratic nomination in Denver? Or the immortal interviews Palin should never have agreed to? Hell, 27 million of us even sat through a half-hour infomercial for Obama—in prime time! There may be some serious withdrawal when this is over, one that even extra episodes of Lost may not cure.

It is possible to have too much information. Of course, the election could often go off the rails and remind us more of Big Brother than Grey’s Anatomy. Do we truly care that John McCain slipped and used the c-word in the phrase “budget cuts”? Or that Sarah Palin’s daughter got pregnant out of wedlock? Or that Barack Obama isn’t a great bowler? Yeah, sure, it makes for great blog fodder, but aren’t most voters supposedly concerned with, ya know, whether or not someone can run the country?

We need to set up our own T-shirt-making business come the next election. We personally bought a crapload of political T-shirts this year, not just because we’re politically minded, but also because so many of them were just damn cool. Whatever the reason, we’re already working on some T-shirt designs for 2012 to get a jump on our own cottage industry. We figure Sarah Palin is a lock for the GOP nomination, so how about these: “Caribou Barbie’s White House”; “Northern Exposure”; “Ya! We Can!”; “Lipstick Bungle”; “Palling Around with Palin.”