Here is your bit of “DC gossip” for the day: a Jell-o dessert recipe, for the holiday of Thanksgiving! It is Mamie Eisenhower’s famed Red Scare Thanksgiving Jell-o Dessert and it is best served chilled, to family members you hate. (There is Mamie right there with “friend” Lenora Hickock, feeding each other Jell-O and giggling knowingly.) This vile thing is exactly what the Eisenhowers used to force-feed the Soviets, and it is delicious. MORE »

Here is something for you all to masturbate to on this “Slow News Friday”: a Jell-O sculpture of the White House that magically goes from limp and decayed to proudly turgid, thanks to our new president. Check out the artist, Liz Hickok, who seems nifty! [YouTube/Liz Hickok]