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Months ago, we related the earth-shattering news that George W. Bush had gotten into painting, at least in Major League Baseball’s off-season. Back then it was noted that Bush favored compositions involving dogs and landscapes. Now we can say that the truth of the matter is much, much funnier.

Joe Hagan at New York has a lengthy piece up about what we can expect from Jeb Bush in the coming years, but some of the best stuff in it concerns the older brother who may have destroyed his chance for the presidency. W. remains all sorts of weird and denial-ridden: he’s sure that “history will vindicate him,” for starters. But—and I’m not one to fulfill Godwin’s law cavalierly—in many ways, he’s beginning to resemble Hitler.

Temporarily, of course, because if routine incest and dismemberment can't derail the show's all-consuming publicity, then nothing can. But a row over the revelation that a prop head of former president George W. Bush was used in the background of a scene involving decapitated heads has caused HBO to pull copies of the episode from its rotation, from HBO Go to iTunes to DVD shipments. That means you won't be able to watch the episode for the time being, not until the offending frame is cropped out. It also means your Blu-Ray and DVD box sets just got a lot more valuable.

● After the jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding beat out Justin Bieber for Best New Artist, someone took to her Wikipedia page for vengeance: we don't know much about the new Grammy-winner, but it seems unlikely that her middle name is "Quesadilla." [Gawker] ● The Health Department is taking a close look at the Playboy Mansion after 100 party attendees came down with a respiratory infection. The fog machine is being cited as a possible cause of the outbreak, but there's really no saying what's to blame. [NYDN] ● In case you hadn't yet noticed, Lady Gaga arrived to last night's Grammy's encapsulated in an egg. [Hollywood Reporter]

● George W. Bush's upcoming autobiography, Decision Points, begins with the sentence, "It was a simple question, 'Can you remember the last day you didn't have a drink?'" The wars come later. [Drudge Report] ● Audrina Patridge's mother went on a drunken rant to paparazzi cameras, cursing Lauren Conrad and reminding the world, in reference to her daughter, "Fuckin' A, she's a Polish-Catholic, full on Italian, and she was raised right." [Vulture] ● Stars of MTV's Teen Mom make between $60,000 and $65,000 per season, which in some cultures translates to "a lot of diapers." [Life & Style]

Smart. We are surrounded by smart: Smartfood. Smartphones. Smart bombs. Smart houses, hotels and helicopters. Smart planes, trains and automobiles. Smart dogs. But we’re also surrounded by very, very, very stupid people. One of the reasons so many countries and people overseas have been bitching and moaning about America for so many years now is because of our tunnel vision about the outside world, not to mention the morons we’ve chosen to run this great democracy.

That crazy sumbitch Oliver Stone is really going through with it, isn’t it? Stone’s George W. Bush biopic W is officially underway and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. Well, Entertainment Weekly’s got ‘em, along with an in-depth article on the controversy swirling around the first ever movie about a sitting president. Have a look at Josh Brolin, (nearly unrecognizable is he) and have a look at Elizabeth Banks, the handsomest faux first couple we ever did see.