Just to the left of this photo is a 9-foot 350-pound brainsmasher who happens to be Rahm Emanuel’s Secret Service guy (he usually carries Rahm around on piggyback, with Rahm brandishing a whip, yelling, “Faster, seeee?”) As the flash goes off, Rahm is saying to this Colossus, basically, “Why is the fucking Wonkette kid taking my fucking picture at this fucking Atlantic party?” But that cannot be confirmed.

Oh you want more pictures from the two things we went to this weekend, for the White House Dinner-Dance? Sorry, you’re not on the list, and we can’t let anyone who isn’t on the list look at our photos. But okay. MORE »

After a busy two weeks of Palin family covers and about six months of Obama family covers, the trashy supermarket magazines need something new, yet still kind of political, because maybe that’s what America is sort of half-interested in, for the moment. Let’s see, are there any other charming political families to put on the cover? MORE »

Hillary Clinton did a very personable interview in the latest issue of People magazine, which made a one-time exception in this case to feature a robot. When Hillary was asked what her last present to Bill was, she responded, “I give him little mementos I find. He’s collected frogs a long time, and I found a metal frog that I thought was cute.” And now Bill Clinton’s metal frog is filing a sex harassment lawsuit against him, in Arkansas. [The Caucus]

It’s a bloodbath at Time Inc as everyone who works for them but Joe Klein finds themselves out of work. MORE »

• Washington Monthly’s 2nd annual college rankings are out. MIT is number one. [Political Animal]
• A $65,000 conference table planned for new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives HQ. [TPMMuckraker]
• People read WP’s Express. [Romenesko]

Another day, another article full of on-the-record Democratic hand-wringing. Today’s comes from the New York Times, and features a handy graphic illustrating this week’s Major Problem With the Democratic Party: No effective party-wide leader! Under the faces of those with fairly legitimate claims to that title are lists of reasons — handily provided by the Democrats themselves! — why each one of the candidates isn’t effective in steering the party. But shit, that’s a lot of words. To save you a couple minutes, we’ve summarized both the article and the entire Democratic media strategy for the rest of the year:
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