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The Daily Show returned from break last night, and host Jon Stewart used the occasion to catch up on some of the political news of the day. And as he is wont to do, his cultural viewfinder was not biased in finding targets for mockery: Barack Obama‘s new stimulus plan for renewing America’s infrastructure was derided for sounding suspiciously similar to Obama’s last stimulus bill that planned for upgrading America’s infrastructure. And Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s debate…moment was used as an example of…well, the political world in which we now find ourselves.

Because even calendars — calendars, of all things! — have to be politicized, somehow: the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute has put together a calendar highlighting one conservative woman for each month of the year. Carrie Prejean and Michele Bachman are on the list; don’t you want to know the rest?