Specifically, same-sex marriage.

So goes one of the more common tacks as the nation’s satirists take aim — and decide that the veep “shooting off his mouth,” before Obama expressed his support of gay marriage, is the most inviting comedic target. As everyone from the Onion to Obama himself knows, Biden often makes for a ready, consensus laugh-line.

“The Avengers” set another record Sunday, grossing $103.2-million in its second weekend of domestic release, according to studio estimates. That easily tops “Avatar’s” second-weekend mark of $75.6-million. (“Dark Shadows," the eighth Depp/Tim Burton teaming, debuted with an underperforming $28.8-million.)

Google celebrates Mother’s Day with a warm animated Doodle that bears multiple viewings. You could call it “Arms and the Mom.” Or ”Mother O’ Invention.”

WHEN THE WORLDS of literature and illustration lost a legend on Tuesday, fans were compelled to re-read the books and quotes of Maurice Sendak — perhaps the most trailblazing children’s author of the past century.

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THE WRITING WAS already on the studio wall. On Tuesday, Disney honcho Bob Iger simply crossed the “T’s” in “The Avengers Two.”

Those were the reported words of Howard Carter nearly 90 years ago when the English archaeologist — asked by the Earl of Carnarvon whether he could see anything — finally cast his eyes on the tomb of Tutankhamun, and the golden objects therein.

In his inspired memory, Comic Riffs reprints this appreciation of his genius from 2009: