Seymour Chwast, one the most important graphic designers of the 20th century and co-founder of Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel, has designed an anti-McCain/Bush t-shirt, available from Freshjive. Most of the profits will be directly contributed to the Barack Obama campaign. (Hey, Freshjive’s gotta eat, too.)

Rolling Stone also put out a pretty jaw-dropping piece about McCain in their latest issue. Hunter S. Thompson may have blown his brains out (literally and metaphorically), but someone’s getting the job done at RS.

In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches.

In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.