Poor Monica Hesse is hated by every gay blogger in America pretty much, because she wrote a funny Washington Post profile about the head of NOM NOM NOM, who is a cheery douchebag with an obsession on hating gay marriage, and all the gays were like, NO ONE…

President Obama’s “controversial” speech to American schoolchildren goes out live at noon today. In an attempt to help reduce the worries of those who are concerned that the President might try to impose his beliefs on our easily-influenced young people, the White…

Politico fulfills all our dreams by publishing a list of their fave top 50 D.C. “biggest party animals.” It is like Animal House up in there! Look out for Michael Steel (the white one, with no “e” on the end of “Steel”)…

Racist Babies!

Dear Liberal Media,

Did it ever occur to you, sitting there in your fancy New York City offices, that…

Can your handwriting reveal deliberate falsehoods? “Researchers at Israel’s Haifa University worked with 34 volunteers, who wrote truthful and false paragraphs on paper using a wireless electronic pen and a pressure sensitive tip. A…

The BBC brings word of “a deepening row in France over the alleged lengths gone to by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s aides in order to conceal his short stature.” The French President, generously estimated to be five-foot-six, is alleged to have stage-managed a…

Author, playwright, and columnist Keith Waterhouse, whose works include the classics Billy Liar and Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, passed away last week at the age of 80. The work speaks for itself, but Waterhouse was also one of the last great writers of the pub school. A few…

There is this write-around David Letterman story as the cover of New York magazine this week, and it’s worth reading so as to see a much-absent prose stylist at work: Peter W. Kaplan, once the scrappy television beat reporter for the New York Times. Let us turn the clock back to 1985!

A couple of noteworthy if minor developments in the ongoing saga of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi: The premier claimed that “Most Italians would like to be like me and they support my…

“By far the most important and prescient book of the past decade is Jonah Goldberg’s ‘Liberal Fascism’ (2007), which makes it easy to understand why town-hall meetings are stuffed with concerned and angry citizens.”

Medical notes from Prison Island: “Exhausted Australian doctors have been told to drink up to six cups of coffee a day to stay awake during extended shifts, building pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to seize control of state-run hospitals. A document on…