I have just lost one of my best friends to cancer. He was a great guy and a great friend. One of the things that made him a great friend was I could count on him to tell me the
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy CNN: A White House official refused to provide a cost estimate for the military plane, but acknowledged “it will be a higher cost than if he were flying
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The New York Times: “It’s an anonymous but age-appropriate public domain Internet penis,†said Adam McKay, the play’s director. “We went on the Web and got a penis.†“It’s not the president’s penis, as far as I know, and Will
I grew up in a small town in Eastern Kentucky. There were two major industries there – an oil company and a steel mill, and yet I’m only the seventh most famous person from that town. There was Henry Clay
With the Senate moving toward a tenuous compromise on the White House’s economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama hammered at the urgent need to pass a bill that will jump-start the struggling economy and put people back to work.
Usually when a president leaves office he and his administration have the good graces to go off somewhere and quietly wait for history to pass judgment on their legacy. Not so with the Bushies. Having thoroughly bankrupted every aspect of
My earlier essay on intentional inaccuracies in the Frost/Nixon movie bemoaned the fact that this sort of quasi-documentary has such dramatic impact-because people actually “see” the invented wrongdoing-that it outweighs any writings constrained by actual fact. Perhaps the best example
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy AP: Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance
In loving memory of Andrew’s youth, here we go… Ok, so we’re late to the party. What are you going to do, set up a perimeter? This is the show I love, then love to hate, then actually hate, then
The New York Times: The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical
Four hundred years ago, Miguel Cervantes described an archetypal delirious fruitcake who wanted to change the world by turning the clock back to the idealized Utopian times that never really existed. Imagine what Cervantes would write today about the futility
“I think more and more the Bush administration and now this administration knows that they’re not going to get a quick reaction out of Congress unless they create crisis and widespread panic. And that’s going to be their M.O. to
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy A golden doodle is a golden retriever-poodle mix, and the National Mill Dog Rescue in Colorado Springs has two that it says meet the Obama family’s wishes for
If you read part one of this essay, you know I hate clichés and stereotypes. They’re the products of hack writers, lazy minds, and innate bigotry. Part one was about how Hollywood looks at “conservative America.” That is, anything to
(First installment in the not so unbelievable ‘Upside Down Bizarre World’ series.) Dateline: The Future. (Most likely spring 2012). Yesterday morning I was awoken at 6:45 am by a call from The White House. After the initial throat- clearing lie
Here in the frigid, overtaxed state of Minnesota, we know one thing about Al Franken… he’s persistent. I’d even venture to say he won’t be waiting for The One to finish out his term and run for a second as
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The Not-Really-That-Epic Poem of Obamacles Revised and Updated (with Apologies to Homer) Book the First: A question for the Muse Speak to me, O Muse, of this resourceful man who strides so boldly upon the golden shrine of Potomac, Between
[youtube 0gtS_GGJVqc nolink] I do not feel the need to offer much commentary. I believe this video speaks for itself and expect no condemnation from the “hope-change” artistic community. From knowledgeable people, I have been informed that Young Jeezy and
When John F. Kennedy was elected president, I did not believe it was possible to top the Kennedy cult fantasy craziness summed up by violinist Isaac Stern when he visited the White House: I felt as though I were inside
I must confess to enjoying this election cycle; wherein Democrats (a party whose platform is unabashedly liberal) have jettisoned the bothersome linearity of doing what one says in favor of saying what one does to a degree that makes the
What will Hollywood do if President Obama fails? Forget simply preserving the status quo or making marginal improvements for this agency or that constituency, but fails to even remotely square the difference between the promise of his administration and its
