by Logan Sachon
Damian Mason is a Bill Clinton impersonator, a corporate comedian, and a farmer. He attended Purdue University and was selling lighting fixtures…
When the Washington Times isn’t busy denouncing Barack Obama as Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, or a cunning Muslim propagandist, it’s supplying heart-rending accounts of the small-investor’s plight. The Unification Church-financed organ of Right-thinking…
Lord knows, The NYTPicker, a blog devoted to lightly annoying the New York Times, is probably penned by some disgruntled, drug-addled acquaintance(s) of mine. But that does not mean that they/he/she are not wronger than wrong…
“Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar each put Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen on covers this year, and both promptly had their worst-selling issues off the newsstand in 2009,” reports the Observer’s John Koblin. But why might that be?
Who ever would have thought that the Democratic-majority Congress would be a nest of snaky, wussy morons? For the first time in ever, a White House is actually about to fix our idiot healthcare system-except the majority party is scared it’ll…
I expected to hate this little Ariel Levy New Yorker profile of Simon Doonan and his potter-husband Jonathan Adler (who I do not know and yet dislike intensely) and yet I found it utterly charming! Ariel Levy could basically feed…
Smarmy fuck Bill Maher takes it to President Obama, saying that he should spend less time worrying about his public image and more time actually taking care of his job. It’s difficult to properly express just how much my disdain for Bill Maher makes it hard to concede that…
Congratulations, white women: You’ve been promoted! Specifically, New York Post scold Andrea Peyser has declared you to be the last group that one may freely stereotype to get a cheap laugh.” You replace the following previously privileged groups who, taking…
This is how we all picture the Parthenon, because that is how it looks now, but in the days of antiquity it was actually tricked out like a cheap whore, all shimmery and Egyptian blue. Now you know!
Sad news: Remember how, when you were a little kid, your grandpa would put you on his knee and inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship by repeating the age-old phrase, “Build a better asswipe and the world will beat a path to your door?” Well, it turns out that sentiment is no longer…
Studies: Babies who are breastfed are more likely to enroll in college later, where they will then die in alcohol-related incidents. Correlation? Perhaps!
Meanwhile, up in Albany: State Supreme Justice Thomas McNarama told state senators to resolve the recent craziness by 1 P.M., or he would do it for them, warning that “I have no problem providing an answer to this question from a judicial standpoint. As a matter of public policy, you…
Clusterstock’s John Carney says that the government’s implicit guarantee that it will not let the banks fail will eventually result in “another round of financial catastrophe.” The New York Times’ Paul Krugman says that reversing course on the stimulus plan would [plunge] the…
At left, Iranian demonstrators protest against the contested results in the country’s Presidential election. At right, Los Angeles Lakers fans celebrate their team’s 15th NBA Championship; the LAPD reports that at least 25 people were arrested. Good morning!
Good to know: Don’t be surprised to see more violence from old people, particularly as the Baby Boomers start to realize that they’re not going to live forever.
Embedded video from CNN Video I will say this for the GOP: Members consistently exceed my expectations when it comes to racism and idiocy. Claiming that comparing Michelle Obama to a gorilla is simply a reflection of her pro-evolution views is a particularly nice touch.
Say hello to the world’s largest private yacht, the “Eclipse.” Try not to think of your own bank balance when you consider that…