Ever since the utter collapse in creditability of the MSM, self-imposed, we are led to the blogs and sometimes to the tabloid press. Recall that the John Edwards story was exposed by The National Enquirer. Which is no guarantee of truth. But that could be said for the New York Times, too. Must be said.

For a long time I've loved The Weekly World News . It's the most absurd of the tabloids and for a long time they balanced on what I thought was a knife's edge between gulling the gullible and amusing me. I'm pretending that the two aren't sometimes the same thing.

In the last few years though they've thrown caution to the winds. I suspect that they simply don't think that they can be stupid enough and are having fun for smart-asses like themselves, and me. This has happened, I notice, since 2000 and they are published in Florida.

One of their characters is Bat Boy. It seems that he and Obama's mutant half brother, Obatma, are touring the US.

This excellent paper, which I highly recommend subscribing to--I do--gives us this story. It is on the whole a lot better than the last couple I've read from the the Paper of Spin.

Since then, Obatma has been on a road tour with Bat Boy rallying support for the Democratic candidate. The two are making appearances in key swing states, happily handing out stickers and posing for pictures. As a result, voter registration centers around the country have been flooded with new-voter requests checking the ethnicity box as "Other: Mutant."

The joke writes itself.