Meme of the moment: McCain's suspension

Suspension Nation (via YouTube.com)

Since John McCain suspended his presidential campaign it's been suspension-mania on the Web.

Late night TV was a suspension party last night, and this morning clips of the best suspension-related stuff are going strong. David Letterman's extended rant on McCain's suspension is currently the top video on YouTube, with almost 800,000 views, and over at colbertnation.com Stephen Colbert's announcement that he was suspending his show leads the site.

Twitterers have gone to town on the concept, announcing that they are suspending work, breakfast, lunch, dinner, their naps, their diets, their faith in humanity, disbelief and, of course, twittering until the crisis has passed. Oh, and one John Dickerson was the first twitterer to suspend all suspension jokes.

Several blogs have called for the New York Mets to suspend their pennant race. A cooking blog has suspended cooking.  A Nashville blogger is suspending his mortgage payments. And far too many blogs have announced that they are suspending themselves.

Finally, Rocketboom's video of David Blaine's suspension over Central Park is climbing the YouTube charts. But Debateporridge gets extra points for putting together a video called Blaine on McCain, featuring a suspended Blaine being told of the candidate's suspension.

-- Maria Russo