The good folks at Talking Points Memo created this video to contest Sarah Palin and John McCain’s claims of being earmark reformers. (Earmarks are provisions in federal spending bills that direct money to specific projects – porkbarrel projects.) I’m posting it here because I think it’s good information design the number of hogs and the cash-register audio cues do a good job of reflecting the scale of earmarks in Alaska, even if the representations are a bit imprecise.

Talking Points Memo also created this nice graphic to mock the faux outrage from Republicans over Obama’s use of the common expression “lipstick on a pig.” I wonder how the Republicans would have reacted if he had said “frosting on a turd.”