News You Can Bruise for 2008 September 15

Sumana was talking about the proportions in Bill Clinton's presidential portrait. I went and checked out the portrait, and started wondering what are those circular things in the background of the portrait. I thought they might be Boy Scout merit badges, but Clinton was never a Boy Scout. Are they the seals of various government departments? A collection of handpainted state quarters? The Internet is no help. Any ideas?

James Rolfe, not content with his character of the Angry Video Game Nerd, has cultivated an obsession with film that culminates in visiting the mall parking lot seen in Back to the Future and, the real point of this entry, a completist aesthetic that is leading him to do little video reviews of every Godzilla movie. Hell yeah! He's like Adam Kaplan, except making films instead of getting a doctorate in computer science.