Tonight is that annual co-opting of the Washington press corps known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and this year is the organization’s centennial. Prepare for a deluge of selfies as respected journalists vie for the attentions of reality television stars, while getting chummy and tipsy with the venal hypocrites running our country into …
I’ve said it before, it’s because he’s jolly. Cuddly and jolly. This would be great if he wanted to be a department store Santa, but . . . oh ick, I just pictured him with a child on his lap. At any rate, disgraced New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan continues to be the go-to …
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Local granola good-guys got a mention in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Geoff Gordon and Keith Cooper, founders of the Providence Granola Project, were interviewed in a short piece about the history of the healthy snack food — Who Made That Granola? Started in 2008, the PGP makes tasty granola and provides jobs for international …
Well, we made The Daily Show. Of course Jon Stewart does a great job of skewering the lying fools at Fox News who this week made little Doreen Marie . . . a star! (She looks like she’s going to wet her pants she’s so excited.) Laura Ingraham chimes in and gets her history all …
All the major network news outlets should hang their heads in shame for their coverage, or should I say creation, of the Florida ‘pastor’ story. They have elevated the profile of this idiot, and the two dozen morons who can tolerate his company, way beyond the reality of his actual influence in the world. This …
I’m not all political like some of you Dose folks, so I’ve only just discovered PolitiFact, a project of the St. Petersburg Times that fact-checks statements by the White House, Congress, lobbyists and interest groups. While others have listed the years’s top music albums or best-selling books, PolitiFact polled the top eight lies told by politicians …
Glenn Beck’s star is really rising. And Buchanan in the third clip, oh man… [youtube]rlFFIB9FZAc[/youtube]
No, she is not referring to her brand new trout pout, but rather the eight babies still in the preemie ward. Okay, we’ve established that Nadya Suleman is mentally ill (14 children under the age of 7 and she’s spending money on Angelina lips). But the national press has a huge mea culpa to perform. …
The Providence Journal editorial staff has apparently been drinking the Kool-aid. In Sunday’s editorial ‘ACORN’s voting machine’ they make no mention whatsoever of the other, much more sinister and much more likely, explanation for these sudden ‘voter fraud’ claims, even though it is exactly the same series of events that caused the Department of Justice …
Okay, that’s Doris Kearns Goodwin on the left, dressed as Abigail Adams. She was performing in a skit for a Boston fundraiser last spring. But can you name the ‘John Adams’ on the right? Hint: Boston musician. (Answer after the jump.) As for tomorrow’s talk at Roger Williams University featuring Doris Kearns Goodwin — forget …
If that whole Obama/New Yorker cover thing made you unhappy… but you weren’t quite sure why… and you didn’t want to look like a humorless Obama nut… but it didn’t seem funny… but you couldn’t explain why it wasn’t funny… good news. Lee Siegel, writing for The New York Times has it all figured out. …
Tim Russert died today. He collapsed at NBC news from an apparent heart attack. A visible shaken Tom Brokaw reported the news of his death of NBC’s cable news channel, MSNBC. Russert is remembered as a Washington Insider and the anchor of Sunday’s Meet the Press.
Have you ever seen those commercials for a credit protection service called LifeLock? This guy shares his social security number and dares the world to steal his identity: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXANhTH_oSo&feature=related] But, wait! Don’t be fooled: apparently, lots of people are suing the company because the service doesn’t work. And the dude, Todd Davis, has had his …
Dear Rolling Stone, Here is a list of things I don’t ever want to think about ever: 1. Mick Jagger getting off 2. Keith Richards getting off 3. Jack White getting off 4. Ryan Seacrest getting off And as much as I am generally annoyed by your publication, I would like to humbly thank you …
His family wants a wedding, her kids love him, a secret sexy hideaway. Dear Us Weekly, Please learn how sentences work before your next issue. Love, Matthew Lawrence PS–That might be the most uninteresting yet terrible picture of Jake and RWith that I’ve ever seen.
A couple of sites in the Gawker empire have picked up the article in last weeks Projo about how legal prostitution is in Rhode island, how it has to be indoors, etc. but that in the wake of the whole Elliot Spitzer shitstorm lawmakers are working to close that loophole. But in the process, Wonkette …