That Didn’t Take Long
ABC News reports Miley Cyrus, Disney’s most recent pre-pubescent cash cow, is officially “embarrassed” by photographs set to appear in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, in which the 15 year-old star of Disney’s hit TV show “Hannah Montana” appears clutching a satin sheet to her naked breast.
Framed in festive graphics with bubblegum hues of […]
Seen That Movie, Too
A CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s.
In a bad omen for Senator John McCain’s fledgling presidential campaign, “a majority of nearly every demographic and political group — Democrats and […]
The Sound of Breaking Glass
America loves nothing more than a sex scandal.
A collective peek up the panty-free skirt of a Former Teen Idol or a glimpse of nipple through the diaphanous gown of This Year’s Model beats the Comeback Victory, the Shaggy Dog, and the Horatio Alger story every time for getting the attention of the caffeine-fueled ADHD citizens […]
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
The true origins of celebrating the notion of romantic love on February 14 are not well documented, though the exchange of elaborate, handmade gifts between paramours was well established by the middle of the eighteenth century in England, and began to really take off in the United States once Esther Howland (herself now considered something […]
Roll Over, Beethoven
Speaking on condition of anonymity, aides to unnamed officials at the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed recent upticks in measurable seismic activity from people spinning in their graves worldwide.
The USGS has been keeping so-called crypt-tic data since the early 1980s, when the Reagan administration’s purported small-government policies resulted in major increases in the size of government […]
Well And Truly F*cked
President George W. Bush came one step closer today to wielding the power to undo nearly 800 years of human progress with the stroke of a pen.
By a vote of 65 - 34 (Maine’s Olympia Snowe could bring herself to neither a yea nor a nay on the matter), the U.S. Senate […]
We Got The Funk
Thaddeus Russell, in a brilliant piece published today in Salon (which may require some hassle to view, but is well worth the annual subscription fee to have at one’s disposal), explains exactly why we can “cut and run” in Iraq, and leave the democratization of the Middle East to its citizens.
Now. Today. […]
Divided We Fall, Part 2
The U.S. Senate will begin debate next week on a constitutional amendment being pushed by President George W. Bush and the White House to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The proposed amendment also prohibits judges from ruling that either the Constitution or any state may give same-sex couples […]
End of World
Thank you, Pud.
Mash de button, Shug.
All In The Family
George W. Bush is Il Capo di Tutti Capi.
After weeks of speculation, and on the heels of a predictably breezy confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States’ Supreme Court, the President named this morning his former personal consigliere, current White House Counsel Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court seat formerly […]