January 2009
Connecticut legislator wants government to bail... →
There is one overriding reason this is a bad idea: it gives the government direct power over the voice of the newspaper, without running afoul of the First Amendment. If the legislature decides that it doesn’t like the paper’s viewpoint, it can pull the subsidy and send the publication back into bankruptcy. The mere threat of this will cause the editors to tread lightly on issues...
December 2008
Video: Andy Warhol Interviews A Stoned Steven... →
atencio:
Yeah, as if I really need a description to get you to watch this.
“We didn’t have that much money to give to the governor.”
– Failed joke of the day, courtesy Roland Burris, the guy Blagojevich is actually trying to appoint to the Senate.
aspiring GOP leader gives "Barack the Magic Negro"... →
Just keep bringing it, gentlemen. Just keep reminding us how your social standards were forged in 1952. Welcome to the losing side of history — may you enjoy your legacy as The Party That Time Forgot.
In the meantime, our President will respond the same way he responded to Hillary’s primary bullshit — by artfully stepping out of the way and letting it ricochet back into your...
this conversation just happened
My sister bought my dad a sign language book for Christmas. She’s sitting next to me, reading it, learning sign language.
Sister: (holding up a sign) This means someone is old fashioned, ultra-conservative, a square.
Me: That’s the shocker.
This must be an old family tradition →
I mean, the guy can't even do a pardon right. →
Let’s get the sequence down:
(1) Bush pardons dude. (2) Bush discovers that dude’s dad gave lots of money to GOP. (3) Bush says, oops, that doesn’t look so good, and “reverses” the pardon. (4) Smart people say, uhm, not sure you… can… do… that…
Once you’ve pardoned someone, you kind of need to prosecute them again to give them back...
Nancy Silverton completely wiped out by Bernard... →
Silverton is the founder of Campanile and La Brea Bakery (which she turned into a national brand) and part owner of Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza.
despite what you clearly think to be the case...
happy holidays, now please get the fuck out of my way
one line from each of the top 18 songs of the 90s...
Exit light, enter night. Say my name say my name: I’m a super dope homeboy from the Oaktown. It’s hard to believe that I’m all alone. I had a vision of love and it was all that you turned out to be. Aint no pussy good enough to get burnt while I’m up in it! Are you thinking of me when you fuck her? Seemed a harmless little fuck. I went to the doctor and guess what he...
I really can’t stay but baby, it’s...
With roughly a half-dozen Cabinet and key...
baruch atah adonouch
According to my Facebook news feed, a fistfight broke out tonight at the kosher Chinese restaurant on Fairfax, Ghengis Cohen.
Can a Christmas gift have a soundtrack? Yes, yes...
overheard on Abbott Kinney this afternoon
“I was making pasta in my kitchen, and some guy fell through my ceiling.”
“Jesus, where were you living?”
“In the ghet-TO.”
Caroline Kennedy as America's Princess Leia →
“On December 27, the group, though an off-shoot called M.I.L.C. (Mothers...”
– Nursing moms take a stand against censorship.
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George Bush: I'm the "very last President not to... →
yeah, because that’s where his real troubles might have come from
“I wonder what’s going on with Obama’s eyes. When he made his keynote address to...”
– The Explainer questions we never answered in 2008- Slate (via marklisanti)
“Three months ago, Favreau lived in a group house with six friends in Chicago,...”
– WaPo, on Barack Obama’s wunderkind chief speechwriter. He’s also writing the next president’s inaugural address at a Starbucks in Penn Quarter.
Senator Kennedy . . . from New York →
Drudge says she got it
Sigh. →
I feel partly responsible.
Bill Clinton: the Joe Simpson of politics →
Oh noes! Socks is dying! →
The Clintons’ cat is, apparently, 19 years old.
Andrew Sullivan lets the whole Trig thing go →
Cajunboy bids a tearful goodbye.
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Barack Obama channels every president ever
“The Sen. Barack Obama who showed up for the first debate with Sen. John McCain did a fine Bill Clinton imitation.” (WSJ)
“What’s most striking about Obama’s approach to foreign policy is that he is less an idealist than a realist who would advance American interests by diplomacy and by using military force prudently and cautiously. This sounds a lot like the...
“Mr. Blagojevich … can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting...”
– NYT. Blaggy, I totally feel you on this one. I’m a complete mess without my Cricket Static-Free Fast Flo. I forgot it in a hotel bathroom once, and it felt like my world was about to end!
“In the presidential campaign, the Obamas had a ‘no new friends’...”
– NYT. I’m throwing down the gauntlet, Mr. President-Elect. You, me, two pounds of dry-aged sirloin, and a game of strict-rules SOWPODS.