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Every election, Californians have to deal with a bewildering array of propositions to vote on, many of which are arcane matters the state legislature ought to be dealing with. But they can't, because California law requires voters to approve every change in another law voters have approved, making it necessary to vote on propositions concerning expanding the authority of the BART police force to cover light rail trains and minutiae like that. Even when the propositions matter, there are so many of them as to make this parody, by Laughing Liberally comedian James Adomian, not far off:

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The Daily Show, in its thoughtful and mature coverage last night of the CNN/YouTube debate, interviewed several members of Drinking Liberally at their debate watching party.

The cast of Avenue Q and Fiddler On the Roof get together for some sheer brilliance.

Update: This was performed at the April 2004 Easter Bonnet Competition, a Broadway fundraising event for AIDS research. There's a mostly-accurate copy of the script at Playbill.

Some very creative folks remixed the V for Vendetta trailer and Sesame Street to create this phenomenally clever parody, "C for Cookie".

Watch it, it's hilarious.

(But I can't help but think: in a world where all computers are crippled so that they can't modify downloaded digital content, or where no rights exist to use trademarks even in fair use, this act of creativity might be impossible or illegal, and might we end up living in Sutler's or Oscar's world after all?)