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- Dana Milbank To Whisper At The Dicks Of Hundreds Of Lobbyists, At Katherine Weymouth's House, For $$$!!! 10:41pm Jul 2
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- What My Wife And I Argued About Tonight 10:02pm Jun 30
You know, whenever I try to point out how, in Washington, DC, the line between "edit meeting" and "cocktail party" has become blurred to the point of ridiculousness, there's never a shortage of people who'll line up and tell me how cynical I am...
DCeiver: You know what I don't understand?Wife of DCeiver: What?DCeiver: Sting.Wife of DCeiver: Sting?DCeiver: Sting. The sword Frodo uses in the Lord Of The Rings. It's dumb.Wife of DCeiver: It's not dumb.DCeiver: It's dumb.Wife of DCeiver: Why is it dumb.DCeiver: Think about it...
Tel Monks
I have a question about Obama's new domestic partnership proposal.
What happens to a federal employee who has a same-sex dompart, but who is otherwise not "out?" This applies to other-sex domparts too. Must federal employees register their domparts, and thus "out" themselves?
Also: The Kansas clinic closing means the loss of an abortion clinic. But, yeah, it's tough to lose a great symbol like that.
I still think it's worth reminding people that the same people who continually deny the District the rights of representation are the same people who continually insist that District residents arm themselves to the teeth...
So, today was sad news for voting rights advocates in the District of Columbia, as the DC Voting Rights Act is, for the time being, dead or comatose. Steny Hoyer said that it was a "blot on our democracy," but that GOVERNMENTING IS HARD and WAAAAH...
What up, Virginia. Let me break it down for you. If you love me at all, you will not allow this rum-soaked, giggly-ass, shit for brains win tomorrow's gubernatorial primary. Do we understand each other...
Via Andrew Sullivan, here's a look at the socialism that Sarah Palin has been warning you about, because she can see it from her porch or some shit:Yeah, so, it goes like this...
Gah. This guy. I was sort of wondering what Dana Milbank was doing now that Jonathan Weisman wasn't around to fight his battles for him...
Whilst looking at George Allen's wikipedia entry, I happened to notice this factoid:Allen graduated in 1970 from Palos Verdes High School, where he was a member of the falconry club and the car club...
So my favorite story of the day is the one reported on by Dave Weigel, and it goes a little something like this:For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for former Rep...
In the dream I had last Friday night, there was a moment when I called Megan Carpentier on my cell phone because I had to make an inquiry, "Megan, I'm in your apartment, and I need to know where you keep your extra clip."Yes. My subconscious believes that Megan owns a Sig-Sauer P220 Super Match...
This commercial has been on teevee a few times tonight and I've watched it in rapt fascination, because WTF? Is this supposed to be a deep satire of consumerism I'm missing...
One sees immediately that the credit crisis is also a crisis of hegemony. To believe credit can be extended and repaid is to believe that the U.S.-led geopolitical order can continue to expand, that the globe can be sewn together even more totally...
Foster Kamer compares the symbiotic relationship between Drudge and Politico to Roland and Ronald Taverner from Southland Tales, a movie that famously, only I liked...
Dude! Look what happened when Catherine Andrews went to Manhattan on the teevee! FREAKAFIED!Also, in that universe, Barack Obama just reversed his decision to release photos of the Joy Joy Unicorn Orgy. It's all true! Even the Catherine Andrews part, let's say![via.]
ACT ONE:The Governess: Things i will do before i die: become a rappers girlfriend. Seriously, they stay in the StL Four Seasons all the time? And I becoming accustomed to this lifestyle?The DCeiver: Are you in Saint Louis?The Governess: Yes, indeed.The DCeiver: And yes, Nelly is from there...
Here's an achievement Choire and Alex's new website can take pride in: Last night, The Awl made an appearance in one of my infamous half-in-and-half-out of sleep, blittery-jittery anxiety dreams...
Honestly, this is the funniest thing you will find at the nexus of politics and the new Star Trek movie:Can you imagine if Star Trek was actually conservative? It would go something like this:“Captain, the Romulans are about to fire on the starbase, what should we do?”Kirk: “Cut t
Act One.[in a cab, 17th and R Streets, NW][pause]CABBIE: They talk, there.[pause]DCEIVER: I'm sorry. What?[The cabbie motions toward the police, congregating on the corner outside Steam Cafe]CABBIE: They talk, there. And people die, elsewhere. Always.[pause]DCEIVER: So...
The hedge funders throw in the towel:"After a great deal of soul-searching and quite frankly agony, they concluded they just don't have critical mass to withstand the enormous pressure and machinery of the U.S...
Pictured above, on the stylish finger of my editor, Rachel, is a little, plastic toy rat that you can wear on your finger. But it's not just any rat!Word! It's a PARTY RAT, y'all! PARTY RATS in the hizzy! Colorful rodent lights for your fingers, just like the marketplace has always begged for...
Why is it so impossible to sympathize with some people?We've got TV pundits and op-ed columnists splitting hairs over the legal definition of torture versus the moral implications its use could have on America's oh so white bread image that the more naive amongst us think is accepted as the gospel...
The Governess: how did i not know this? how did i not KNOW this?DCeiver: Yeah, dude. Party at the Pietanza!The Governess: i did not know this. i feel...something.DCeiver: Woo early morning calzones with Mitt Romney...
Oh, hai. Do you like the baseball? Do you hate leukemia? Do you have $18? Ok, then...
You know, looking back, I don't think we ever received an adequate explanation as to what was so mission critical about shooting the "Easy Lover" video that Phil Bailey had to be transported by helicopter. I mean, don't get me wrong - I love Earth, Wind and Fire. But take a cab, dude.
Ryan Grim posted this video classic of Representative Alcee Hastings straight up reading a long list of awesome, multisyllabic perversions into the Congressional Record, for freedom...
Via Gawker, this is pretty awesome:Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.
You know, the Right takes a lot of shit from people who criticize them for using their blog network and interconnected community to dispense a lot of addled, conspiracy-theory style ravings and bleat a tin of hack criticisms that haven't been even remotely amusing for months...
Lindsay from Videogum has today's "so cute your face explodes and falls off and is gross but anyway ZOMG that's cute" video of the day.
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded...
In case you missed the slideshow of these Super Cool Barack Obama Action Figures I did, click here.
Meghan McCain, fameball:"I am concerned about the environment. I love to wear black. I think government is best when it stays out of people's lives and business as much as possible. I love punk rock. I believe in a strong national defense. I have a tattoo...
Do I need to point out just how difficult it was to arrange to meet and subsequently murder someone using the traditional classified ads offered by print media? Try it sometime! I'm honestly surprised no newspapers have jumped on this yet...
Available at your local grocery store, a heretofore untapped source of diplomatic expertise.As it happens, the Complete Idiots Guide is published by Penguin Group, not AMI - which would have definitely recontextualized the "Complete Idiot" part of the title.
A decision made by The Politico's Mike Allen to allow an anonymous former Bush administration official free rein to both levy attacks on the Obama administration for the release of the OLC torture memos and brandish unsubtantiated claims as self-evident truths touched off the ire of Andrew Sullivan...
I'm not as upset at the news that grown adults will be pedaling around Arlington on large tricycles as Kriston is, though I reserve judgement until I see these in the wild...
Just to allay your fears, no, I'm not going to make a habit out of it, or anything.
Okay, for a good long while now, I've sat by, idly, as my wonky friends debate the finer points of filmed comedy, and like the good man who's allowed evil to flourish by doing nothing, I've come to see the error of my ways...
Can you just imagine the how despairingly bleak such movies as The Wicker Man and Bangkok Dangerous could have been if Nicolas Cage had been able to draw on the experience of LOSING HIS MOTHERFUCKING CASTLE?! I sure hope The Sorceror's Apprentice makes good use of the sad that Cage obviously haz.
Gotta admit it, kudos are in order. The City Paper has crafted an astoundingly well-detailed parody of our site today, I think the only thing that's off is the headshot image dimensions...
HE: Did you see this story about the intactivist rally?ME: The what, now?HE: Intactivists. They were protesting on the Mall yesterday. They are apparently against circumcision.ME: Really?HE: Yeah...
iTunes is apparently offering John Cage's infamous silent composition 4'33" as a free download of the week, no doubt commemorating April Fools Day. Of all the silliness involving this piece by Cage, my favorite story is what happened to poor Mike Batt of the Wombles...
I remember my first car more positively. It was cherry-red 1988 Chrysler Fuck Richard Cohen LX. That thing glided down the streets of Northern Virginia like a cloud full of silver linings and the engine purred like a hummingbird...
I've been seeing this commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines new ship-based waterslides, and seriously, who is this fuckchop kidding with his insistence that a trip down their waterslide will be anything more than long and disgusting sluice through the sweat and urine and pox of a hundred other...
So, these games that are being played over DC voting rights and Congress/the NRA seem to have most DC residents at sixes and sevens...
So, the frontier that is Watchmen has been reached...
Matt's post on Watchmen (which references Spencer's post) concludes thusly:All-in-all, I’m torn between immense admiration for the film and regret that it was done as a movie at all...
So, yeah! WATCHMEN happened, and I was pretty happy about the results. I think I slightly exceed Ana Marie's enthusiasm, fall slightly short of Spencer's, but really, overall I am impressed by the care that was taken to bring it to the screen...
DCist says that Bobby Flay, of the Food Network's Bobby Flay's Dick MoveThrowdown, is making a return appearance to the District. Or at least, in this case, its outiest of outskirts...
Travis Mills passes on this hilarious, satiric recreation of Vinny Cerrato's Gmail inbox. As Travis rightly states, this suggests that there's at least one Redskins fan with way too much time on his or her hands...
Hey, I forgot I was sort of half-heartedly doing this!Observe the eternal sunshine of Goldberg's spotless cranial void as it attempts to write its way to credibility.Surely this is just the amuse bouche to tide the market over until Beck releases his next work, I Put California In My Mouth Again:...
I never even saw it! (I do, though, like it.)