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We knew it was time to embrace State Government Asshole day at Wonkette when this tip ended up in our mailbox. Seems that Scott Brown, a Massachusetts state senator who opposes gay marriage, had some foul language written about him and his daughter (an American Idol contestant) by high school students on the Facebook page of a pro-gay-marriage history teacher. Naturally, he responded the way any mature adult in a position of authority would: by appearing at an assembly at the school that the kids attended and reading aloud their obscenity-laden comments, with their names, while horrified teachers begged him to stop. MORE »

FishbowlDC is concluding its “Rising Star” contest. We’re not entirely clear on what the contestants were competing for, or what qualifies one as a rising star, but it seems to involve internet polls. And, naturally, massive voter fraud. As can be expected, it quickly became a popularity contest, with someone from something called “Two Mundos Magazine” duking it out with Kara Rowland, an attractive metro reporter from that bastion of respectable journalism, the Washington Times.

As the polls close, it looks like Kara’s gonna take it. Kara won! What put her over the edge? Her work on September 11 widows? Her series on utility regulations in Maryland? Sure, that shit’s ok, but we think it just might’ve been the Facebook picture we’ve attached after the jump.

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Here it is, Barbara Bush’s Facebook profile (click to enlarge). Like everything else in this world, it’s a massive disappointment. She’s no Pierce, that’s for damn sure. MORE »

IvyGate has a bombshell: First Twin Barbara Bush may be on Facebook. There’s a friends-only Yale Alum profile with her name on it, and we’d all love to see the contents. MORE »

Because politicians’ kids will never be smart, Facebook will continue to provide endless photos of these elite youngsters showing an appalling lack of class, decency, sobriety or Christian Ethics. MORE »

This week’s coup: getting a picture of Tennessee Senate candidate Bob Corker’s daughter Julia making out with another girl into the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Now we’re just working on getting Pierce Bush and Leslie Cochran into a Frank Rich column. MORE »

The Tennessee Senate race between Democrat Harold Ford and Republican Bob Corker is really damn close. Ford, unmarried, does have a bit of a thing for white girls. But because both candidates are pretending that this is about Iraq or some other bullshit like that, Corker has to pretend to “distance” himself from ads like the one above, in which, yes, the terrifying spectre of Harold Ford cavorting with dangerously pale models and strippers is suggested — briefly, but a little too obviously.

Ford responded by crashing Corker’s press conference, which is pretty cool. Ford was ostensibly upset because of Corker’s ad trashing Ford’s family (which painted the other Fords as somehow lazy gadabouts and hard-working corrupt lobbyists). Because everyone’s more comfortable talking about the suggestion of familial impropriety than the race-baiting thing, we’ll compare the Ford and Corker families’ embarrassment potential after the jump.

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“About Me: I’m hip hoppin my way to the United States Senate!” MORE »

Here’s a picture of super blogger Matthew Yglesias (formerly of the American Prospect, also of ten hundred different blogs) in a Halloween costume. We don’t know what the hell he’s dressed as, no. Axl Rose maybe? We’ll say Axl Rose. His lovely friend appears to be Roy, of Siegfried and…. MORE »

Above, a picture from the Facebook profile of Shelley Davis, daughter of Representative Tom Davis (R-VA). Once again: we are shocked not by the fact that 18-year-olds drink, but by the fact that they drink such shit. MORE »

• Roll Call reviews newish bars. “…urban renewal of the H Street corridor…. In the bordello-themed suite, plush red velvet covers all sitting areas, and an interesting mural of cartoon blood borders the room’s ceiling.” Funny the things you don’t notice when you’re drunk. [Roll Call]
• Oh snap, another blogger fired. “I was minding my own business when the VP called me into the conference room… laid out in front of the VP were 2 huge folders, labeled “PART 1″ and “PART 2…Every blog entry I had ever written for the entire year I worked at this joint was in that folder… You could tell I worked for something that was only slightly related to Congress sometimes, but that was it.” [Unemployed Blogger]
• Is paying in cash crass? What about a $1000000 dollar bill? [DC Urban Family]
• Doogie Howser, M.D. was first blogger ever. [PR Slave DC]
• “Facebook Gets Black Eye from Facelift Backlash.” Who’s the stalker now, bitch? [Catch Up Lady]

Just because it’s been a while (there just haven’t been any good ones!), here’s Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, Harvard class of ‘10, in a picture from her Facebook gallery:

Now we have no proof that there’s anything illicit going on here (water pipes are for tobacco, as we all know, and Ms. Schlossberg recently turned 18). Just as we have no proof that, in the picture after the jump, the lovely young lady is not simply holding a bottle of what could easily be juice. And with her family history, we kind of hope it is.

Update: It does appear to be a legitimate hookah — and yeah, that means probably tobacco. The other stuff gums up the works. Still more proof that the second picture depicts young Rose proudly and legally imbibing unfermented grape juice, possibly Welch’s.

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