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There will come a time when the life of Patron Saint Sarah Palin will be turned into a full length feature film that everyone will have to see. And before this happens, we can expect someone will produce artsy films about Our First Black President, how the Teabaggers killed the motorized scooter, et cetera and [...]
If there’s one thing this week has reminded us of, it’s that politics is one Big Ugly Circus: that denouncing masturbation gets you votes, but that fighting crime and fixing schools does not. Oh, but thankfully just miles outside the District, near National Harbor, there you can find Cirque du Soleil, an upscale circus that [...]
Yes, yes, yes, Washington, DC is very sad because we’re about to be overrun with racist loonies who worship a pudgy weirdo who worships space monsters. But before the crazies shuffle onto their tour buses and make their way into our city’s safest areas, we have local politics to focus upon, namely the election for [...]
It’s time to assess whether you’ve been doing enough drinking on outdoor patios this summer. Well, HAVE YOU? The three-day-drunk-fest that marks the end of summer is but one month away. Whether your fun comes courtesy of slave reparations or not, you can have just as lavish a last month of summer as Sasha Obama, [...]
For a while there, we all thought the U.S. soccer team just might make it out of the round of 16 and into the quarterfinals … ha ha, no. But now we have all these Americans who suddenly love their country, who spent all day Saturday glued to the teevee watching this Euro-Latinno sport of [...]
We found a film festival in DC that has nothing to do with a “screen” or a “green” and that focuses on our nation’s current emotional obsession: angst! Nordic angst to be exact. And why wouldn’t you want to see films from Scandinavia that explore this most overdone of topics, especially when they involve Danes [...]
The World Cup starts tomorrow, Huzzah! The World Cup is some sort of larger meditation on poverty or east/west relations or diplomacy and/or women’s rights, or maybe it’s just an exotic sport some people play involving the kicking of a ball into a net. Whatever it is, it’s here and we could tell you where [...]
Saturday, May 1 through Friday, May 7: Barack Obama’s admission that he’s anti-Real American and the Caps devastating Game Six loss weren’t the only important pieces of news on the cover of Tuesday’s second class morning read. Note the righthand corner where it’s revealed that the Washington National Opera’s Marriage of Figaro is a “delight.” [...]
Monday, April 26: The New America Foundation is bothered that all the anger produced by the Great Recession hasn’t really led to any rational, sound conclusions about how to fix income inequality and other moderately important things. At their event tonight, it will be revealed how we can give jobs to everyone, fix Wall Street, [...]
Sunday, April 25: A huge climate rally is taking place on the National Mall on Sunday, where celebrities including Sting, James Cameron, The Roots and Passion Pit will tell us how great it is that we have black president! They may also talk about how we can make our voice “heard” on climate change legislation, [...]
Thursday is Earth Day, a day when we thank the earth for being so great and earthy and celebrate by rubbing clean coal all over ourselves. You’re supposed to wear green and drink green beer too, but with the lights off of course. This is the one day in America when the earth actually matters. [...]
Who knew that our Historical First Ladies (and Queen Elizabeth) were such arborists? For centuries, patriotic ladies have cultivated the White House gardens by shoveling dirt atop already planted trees — and their efforts have made our Nation’s Capital safe and tourist friendly. The White House gardeners also helped, by actually planting the trees.
Garden Tours: Organic farmer of lore Michelle Obama is growing vegetables in her backyard and now you don’t need to have a small child or be an underprivileged kid from Anacostia to see them, as the White House is opening its gardens and grounds to visitors on Saturday and Sunday! Free. [White House Garden Tour]
Monday, April 12 — 5:30 PM: AEI finds its inner Jewish mother for its event about guilt and how its “moral and metaphysical bases” is ruining our ability to understand what is happening in the world. Well, whatever. [AEI]
