The Day The Clown Cried

I’m trying my best, but I’m am having an extremely hard time pulling anything out of this day. I mean, Jesus, snakes…

Saturday in D.C., as you may have heard, saw a reversal of sorts. A hotly-disputed number (we average those crowd estimates at 20,000) of middle-aged white conservatives of all stripes, armed with digital cameras, took to their lawn chairs on the…

The Awl’s Chief Los Angeles Correspondent Natasha Vargas-Cooper has sold The Mad Men Files to Julia Cheiffetz at Harper Studio, the world’s best imprint. (We’re very biased!) The book is based on her long-running blog, The Footnotes of Mad Men, which…

What Last Night Was Like

Basically everyone should have to stare at this photo every day for 30 minutes while they ponder their life choices.

“The city’s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, announced on Monday that the Bloomberg administration would seek to ban smoking in city parks and beaches.” ALSO BREAKING: New York To Be Renamed “Pussy City.”

Okay, now it is for sure time to panic: “’Early Show’ host Harry Smith has taken a sick day from work, telling viewers he thinks he may have swine flu. In an interview live from his New York City apartment Monday, Smith told CBS viewers he started feeling achy and…

As a series of negative stories takes its toll on his public image, Democrats in New Jersey are wondering if Chris Christie can be beaten in November’s gubernatorial election. Will Christie’s steadily declining numbers help incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine actually pull this one out? Yes. If the vote is held in, oh, March or so.

Suddenly the idea that there might be a racial component in the opposition to President Barack Obama is popping up everywhere: Maureen Dowd and her buddies brought it up in a Sunday op-ed, Politico has a piece on…

Not only is Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) not gonna apologize again for that whole “You lie!” thing, he will autograph a picture of him shouting it out in the first place. Still, I’m sure he feels terrible about it.