You know who’s having a doggone humdinger of an Inauguration weekend is that Christopher Hitchens, the ex-Trotskyist drink-soaked popinjay war columnist for Slate, Vanity Fair… wherever else! The Internet is awash with stories of his shenanigans this weekend, including a sexy kiss with fellow British anger bear Andrew Sullivan at the Slate party and some hip-hop dancing at the party for Slate’s black people website, The Root! THE GUY’S A MANIAC. MORE »

After last January’s State of the Union address, Americans looked on in helpless horror as crazed Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann viciously assaulted the President, grabbing him, holding on to his back with a fierce death grip, and finally forcing him to kiss her. Now, according to the Bachmann, she’s done it again. And like all abusers, she insists her victim was asking for it. After the jump, courtesy WCCO and MN Publius, we have embedded audio of Michele telling a probably made-up story about the President coming on to her and planting one right on her at the scene, naturally, of the fucking 35W bridge collapse. That’s romance. MORE »

Via BBC News, which lately seems to be specializing in news of the weird, we learn this: MORE »

On Valentine’s Day, we asked you for stories of kissing prominent politicians and the like. Here’s an anecdote we received about one renowned womanizer, the late Strom Thurmond: MORE »

We haven’t received too many responses yet to our Valentine’s Day request for your tales of kissing “famous for D.C.” types, such as members of Congress, high-ranking Administration officials, or well-known talking heads. So if you have any, please email us. And they don’t have to be scandalous — we’d welcome an email from the wife of a senator saying that her husband is a super smoocher. MORE »

Today, in case you forgot — we almost did — is Valentine’s Day. In keeping with the holiday, the New York Times offers us this interesting meditation on “the profoundly bizarre activity of kissing.” Here’s an excerpt: MORE »