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The Christian’s Case Against Barack Saddam Hussein Obama

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The Fundies are out to get Barack, and they have created a timeline of Barack’s Islamic Muslim life on the website MyChurch.org. It features some revealing insight into why Barack Obama, “Son of a Luo Tribesman,” plans on blowing up the White House in the name of Muslim Jesus. MORE »


Politics, Like Family, Can Be Embarrassing

Monday, December 24th, 2007

teh candydatezThe holidays are a time when you get together with your family, drink too much and argue about politics because there’s still nothing good on TV. For instance, my grandfather doesn’t think we at Wonkette make fun of Hillary Clinton enough and that we’re a little mean to Ron Paul. Is my grandpa a Paultard? Is it too early to start drinking? Who are you embarrassed to admit that your family members plan to vote for? A completely anonymous end-of-the-workday poll, after the jump.

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America Still Wants to Fuck Bill

Monday, October 1st, 2007

clintonplayboy.jpgPlayboy polled its readers as to which of two potential first ladies is sexier. And apparently it’s Bill Clinton over Ann “Mitt’s First and Only Wife” Romney. Because Playboy “readers” are all finally coming to grips with their homoerotic impulses, or something. Also because Ann looks like a middle-aged woman whose had like 500 identical sons, and Bill looks like an old horn-dog. They really shoulda done this with the trophy wives, though. We’d have our own “Mrs. Fred Thompson vs Mrs. Hottie Kucinich” poll but we have to live with ourselves.

Battle of the Sexiest [Playboy]


Jenna Reflects on a Life Cut Short by Arranged Marriage

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Speak out, Jenna - WonketteThis week’s People has the (invented and sanitized) details of Mr. Henry Hager’s forced proposal to his bride-to-be Jenna Bush. It happened, supposedly, at Acadia National Park (as Laura revealed last month), on top of Cadillac Mountain. Hank, who had awoken his (probably hungover) ladyfriend before the sun even rose, “suggested stopping for an energy bar” (sick, just sick). And then, knowing that he had her drowsy and distracted from lack of sleep and high altitude, he popped the question as cursed dawn began to break. Jenna has been allowed to reveal some small part of her disgust with the whole affair: “‘I acted the complete opposite of how I thought I would: I was quiet. He said, ‘Are you exited?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know!’” She realized, of course, that she had little choice in the matter, and presumably acquiesced soon thereafter. We begin to sympathize with this poor little rich girl, who wanted nothing more than to live the happy life of drug-fueled privilege that so many of her contemporaries had, without the burden of eventually being enlisted in the Bush family’s ongoing effort to control the Earth. People gives more tragic details of her tragic young life: MORE »


Ask a Lobbyist: Your Mother Should Know

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Every week, our Anonymous Lobbyist answers your questions about how laws get made and why they probably shouldn’t. If you have a question about the dirty business of doing business in Washington, ask her.

This week: Quality time with the family.

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To Do: Family Ties

Thursday, September 21st, 2006
  • Alice McDermott (local) reads from her latest novel After This. It’s about a family. Politics & Prose. Free at 7PM. [P&P].
  • Lecture about Duncan Phillips and how he turned his home into the Phillips Collection. It’s about a family. 6 & 7PM. Appears to be free. [Phillips]
  • Enon, Tokyo Police Club and Neptune at the Warehouse Next Door. $10 at 8:30PM. [Warehouse next Door]

George Allen’s Poor, Over-Worked Flacks Convince Him to Stop Denying the Jew Thing

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

That’s basically what we get out of today’s Post story on Allen’s belated embracing of his heritage. Controlling the damage wrought each time Senator Shanda opens his mouth is not a job we’d wish on anyone, and by all accounts, Dick Wadhams (heh) is a decent sort. So, years after he was first asked and a month after the Internet learned about it, George Allen is willing to admit this much: His maternal grandfather was Jewish. This would be the one who was in a Concentration Camp for reasons that Senator Macaca, well, lied about (but it was a totally Spock kinda lie — Grampa Lumbroso was almost certainly an “Allied sympathizer,” as the Allies were the ones who didn’t want to gas him). But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. A couple more thoughts, and an excerpt from sister Jennifer Allen’s hilarious book, after the jump.

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Metro Section: Kindergarten Gross Out Edition

Thursday, September 14th, 2006
  • Fenty, fifty. Fifty states. If Fenty gives DC voting rights the whole country will fall apart and people will poop from their peeholes and pee from their poopholes. [The DC Universe]
  • “I like being friends with my dad. I know I sound like a kindergartener when I say it, but I do.” Nah, bro. You don’t sound like a kindergartner, but you spell like one. [Fictional Rockstar]
  • “Esther Phillips has has an album and a song called ‘What a Diff’rence a Day Makes.’ Dude, what a difference a designated driver makes! So for real… I’m slightly hungover at work right now typing this.” [Panama's Proposition]
  • OMG this is insanely disgusting. But safe for work. Commenter says: “Jesus Christ Jeff, it’s gonna take about three hours of cuteoverload.com to get over this one.” [And I am Not Lying, For Real]

The Phillips Phamily: Information Please

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

control FREAK - WonketteSo “NewsBusters” worked their ears to the bone to pick out every intelligible remark in today’s now-legendary CNN gaffe. The only important thing they picked up that we missed is this: MORE »


Rumors On The Internets: Your Dad’s Not Drunk, He’s Fulfilled

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
  • “[Phil] Donohue was fired because he was against the Iraq war” [Crooks and Liars]

  • “By and large, the Internet — including blogs — reacts to stories and the way full-time journalists tell them.” [Dean's World]
  • Men between the ages of 30 and 54 got into their kids’ Douglas Coupland, are now “voluntarily dropping out of work, unable to find a job that interests them, and preferring instead to live at home, doing things that they find more fulfilling.” Name one thing that is more fulfilling than alienating your family. [MoJo]
  • “Israel can’t shoot one bullet without America’s permission.” [American Leftist]