• May 27, 2012

secrets

When French first lady Carla Bruni spoke with our first lady Michelle Obama in March, demonic secrets were exchanged.

What if you found out that one of your ex-friends was writing a tell-all book about all your secrets? Would you start a damage control campaign, getting your side of the story out to the press? Would you beg and plead with them to reconsider? Would you hire lawyers? These are the sorts of tactics [...]

Erm so earlier this month someone asked Gen. McChrystal to talk about some of the weird shit that people tell him to do, all the time, re: Afghanistan. He was like, “Oh get this: Chaosistan,” which basically involves letting Afghanistan just become a “Somalia-like haven of chaos that we simply manage from outside.” And everyone [...]

Seymour Hersh, the famous New Yorker reporter, surfaces once or twice a year to tell us about all the repulsive horrors the Bush administration authorized or perpetrated overseas. The latest: a special wing of the special operations community that used to report directly to Dick Cheney and now reports to no one is “an executive [...]

The 9:30 Club has some amazing acts booked for the next few months, and many of them are already sold out. Here’s a list of upcoming shows with tickets still available.

Jill Biden, huzzah! She should own sixteen Nobel Prizes already, for staying married to the blabbermouth Joe Biden and for sending out a fundraising appeal on behalf of the pants monster Hillary Clinton. Now she deserves another prize, for Truth, because of what she told Oprah yesterday.

Look it’s Nancy Pelosi’s official YouTube “Cat Cam”! Nancy what the hell! (And thank you for the informational annotation at the end, we get it, you’re hip for an older lady.) [YouTube]

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by Alex Pareene  11:04 am December 22, 2006