Which one of these will become the First Pet(s) on January 20th, 2007?
Also, an addendum: Obama has been promising his daughters a dog forever. He mentioned it in Audacity of Hope a couple of times and I think I’ve heard him mention it in his stump speech. The Salt Lake Trib:
Some lucky pet may […]
Via Misty over at Shakes’ place, check out this complaint the FCC recieved about Prince’s Superbowl halftime show:
“It was obscene to show Prince, a HOMOSEXUAL person through a sheet, as to show his siluette while his guitar showed a very phalic symbol coming from his below-midriff section. I am very offended and I would preffer […]
This is truly strange. The following is the error message you get when you go to Senator Ted “series of tubes” Stevens’ 2008 re-election website, and don’t know their super-secret password:
Through a series of highly sophisticated and complex algorithms, this system has determined that you are not presently authorized to use this system function. It […]
Both the Colbert Report and The Late Show did segments on Nancy Pelosi blinking during the State of the Union Address. Ironically enough on The Late Show, Letterman said in the lede to his segment: “I don’t think this is the kind of thing you’ll see on any other show.” Sorry, Dave. First The Late […]
During Senator Clinton’s webcast tonight or “web-chat” as she called it, Clinton answered several questions about everything from the environment to the “war on terror.”
Around 7:20 EST, the conversation turned a bit lighter and one person asked what the Senator’s favorite movies were. “When I was very much younger,” Clinton replied, “The Wizard of Oz” […]
Associated Press:
Fox announced Saturday that it is making a new game show, “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” that will air sometime later this year, perhaps as early as the spring.
Adults will compete in a quiz based on questions from elementary school textbooks. Actual elementary school students will be on hand as “experts” for […]
Check this out:
Nearly 60 per cent of Quebecers surveyed in a poll described themselves as racist to some degree.
The Leger Marketing survey found that one per cent of respondents considered themselves very racist, 15 per cent viewed themselves as moderately racist, while 43 per cent said they were mildly racist.
Another 39 per cent said they […]
Apple Computer today introduced a cell phone called iPhone, which has several interesting features including the ability to play music like an iPod, send mail like a Blackberry, look at maps like a GPS unit, and all sorts of things- and browse the internet like a computer. And for their promo demonstration on their website, […]
Looking for laughs? Check out this post over at Shakespeare’s Sister. I haven’t laughed that hard since… well, since one of Congressman Virgil Goode’s constiuents discovered a can of gold spraypaint.
Irony of Ironies. I noted earlier today that the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad was getting promoted to replace John Bolton as US envoy […]
Pretty much everybody on this side of the blogosphere has heard of Congressman Virgil Goode, re-elected to a sixth term this past November. The Virginia Republican, who nobody had ever heard of before, was perhaps over-stressed in recent weeks at the prospect of being in the minority for the first time in his Congressional career […]
Okay, this one was hardly going on a limb or anything:
- Katherine Harris does something (anything) and Wonkette covers it. Nobody is surprised, but many are amused. Lather, Rinse, Repeattm.
Yeah, it happened. That was one of my safer bets though, as Wonkette looooves Ms Harris. In a love to hate kind of way. I’m still […]
NYT:
President Bush declared in 2003 that he did not read newspapers, but at his final news conference of the year last week, he casually mentioned that he had seen something in the paper that very day.
Asked for his reaction to word that Vice President Cheney would be called to testify in the C.I.A. leak […]
Virginia’s Republican Senator George Allen, narrowly defeated by Democratic war hero Jim Webb, had one last brush with controversy today. After Allen’s fellow member of Congress Virginia Representative Virgil Goode had recently created controversy by criticizing newly-elected Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison for wanting to use the Koran in an unofficial swearing-in ceremony, the outgoing Senator […]
The Times has a fascinating article today about a massive declassification process which will occur at midnight on December 31st. Apparently back in 1995, President Clinton ordered that all classified documents 25 years old or older be declassified en mass by 2000. This deadline later got extended to January 1, 2007. So, just after midnight, […]
The New York Times today probes the especially troubling problem of the richest Americans being left behind by… even richer Americans. This, in an article entitled:
Well I’ll be. This is clearly an issue that all Americans should be paying their utmost attention to, as this growing enconmic gap signals how truly economically divided this Great […]
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