What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The folks from Westboro Baptist Church have sunk to a new low. I honestly didn't think it was possible; reveling in American dead as Divine punishment for the "sin" of homosexuality, standing around military funerals with the message that God killed our young service personnel because the United States isn't terrorizing the gay folk is bad enough. Now, they are protesting outside Sascha and...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Chelsea: The owners of Chelsea Grill just opened a American pre-Prohibition themed restaurant called Stecchino at 765 Ninth Ave., 212-397-2377. [ Life With Food and Drink via Eater ] Clinton Hill: Tamboril introduces karaoke Tuesdays with a two-for-one happy hour from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. [ Clinton Hill Blog ] Columbus Circle: Time Warner Center launched a new culinary club today called Circle of Taste,...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Malia to Sasha: "Oh, yeah. Because making turkeys shaped like your hand is so complex." Yeah, yeah, she ended up upping her grade to a 95 eventually, but still. Right now, somewhere in a library up at Columbia, Chelsea Clinton is grimacing in commiseration. [ Caucus/NYT ] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: barack obama , malia obama , politics , school , the first family circus...
PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
click photo to enlarge Is it just me or is there something quite worrying about family members (fathers and sons, husbands and wives, etc) achieving high political office in democracies? Am I right in thinking that where this does occur it is more likely to be due to "connections" and nepotism than the political attributes of the individuals concerned. And that even if these factors aren't...
ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
An Oct. 29 NewsBusters post by Tom Blumer purports to take offense that Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson called a female lobbyist a "K Street whore," calling the remark "grievously sexist and offensive" and Grayson himself an "ogre." By contrast, you might remember, Blumer's Media Research Center colleagues had a lot of trouble finding anything offensive about Ann Coulter...
Morninpaper (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Post Meghan did the Jay Leno show panel, but first she was backstage with Bryan. She never mentioned her Boob twitpic, but she did talk about her love of Chelsea Clinton. If Republicans where losing their minds over her before, they're all going to end up in the nut house after her Clinton [...]
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
We all remember the “Tuzla Dash” controversy during the campaign that had then-Senator and now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claiming to have dodged sniper fire after landing at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia-Herzegovina during a visit to the troops there as First Lady in 1996. Eventually Hillary was forced to admit that nobody was shooting at her or her travel mates Chelsea Clinton and...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Sasha and Malia Obama aren't the first first daughters to pass their time in the public eye. You remember Chelsea Clinton and Barbara and Jenna Bush. But what about Helen Taft or Lynda Bird Johnson? Peruse our photo album of America's Pennsylvania Avenue princesses, and tell us which family you'd like to be adopted into and whose you could do without. Follow HuffPost Style on Twitter and become a fan...
Olsen Twins NEWS (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... ra Streisand. She bought a bunch of stuff and was really down to earth and cool. She's into period pieces, like Victorian through the Twenties. She also bought a Loro Piana Victorian shawl and a huge Judith Leiber necklace. Who else has been in? The Olsen twins are here all the time. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have come in. Pink. Michelle Williams. Faith Hill. Fergie. Johnny Knoxville. Chelsea...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Vero Beach, FL-- Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh announced his surprise engagement to Chelsea Clinton on his radio program today. It will be the ninth marriage for Mr. Limbaugh, 58, and the first for Ms. Clinton, 29. The pair met brie...
distributorcap NY (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
On Friday, The Miss America Organization (MAO) announced that Rush Limbaugh – America’s premiere hate-radio, anti-feminist and fetid douchebag, would be a judge at the 2010 Miss America pageant in Las Vegas. President and CEO Art McMaster says the Miss America Organization released the following statement: “We are thrilled to have Rush join us for our pageant this year,” said...
Good Stuff NW (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
I don't know about you, but if I come across an issue of People magazine at the doctor's office, I have no idea who 95% of those people are or why their lives are so fascinating. Even on Twitter , most of the "Trending Topics" are pretty much a mystery to me. #mileycomeback? #edhardyis? Not a clue. And crowds? Forget it. On one visit to the Beaverton Farmers' Market during election season...
Wash Park Prophet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
DERBYSHIRE: . . . [W]omen voting is bad for conservatism, and as a conservative, of course, I think that’s bad for society. HARTMANN: So therefore if women were not allowed to vote it would be a better country in your opinion? DERBYSHIRE: I think as a hypothetical I think that’s arguable, yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. - National Review columnist John Derbyshire, discussing a chapter in...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
This week in the annals of celebrity eating and drinking habits: Madge slipped into Eastern Bloc with her boy toy, Jesus Luz, while Ed Westwick introduced Jessica Szohr to his parents over Tex-Mex. Read on; it was a romantic week for New York's finest. August : Jude Law ate with his assistant; this was the latest stop in his tour of New York dining spots, coinciding with his Broadway run. [ Just Jared...
Brilliant at Breakfast (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Who knew John Derbyshire was this old ? John Derbyshire, a British-American conservative author and columnist for the National Review , has written a new book titled We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism . The book contains a section called “The Case Against Female Suffrage.” Yesterday on his radio show, Alan Colmes asked Derbyshire to articulate his argument. “What is...
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