Look Yale, we know the last week or so has been tough for you, but LEAVE NANCY GRACE ALONE. [CNN, thank you operative "Ryan T." ]

Bobby Jindal’s speechwriters, they are Gods. Check out this little one-two he pulled on the Democrats. See, he sets it up all good-like by saying that the stimulus package included “$140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring,’” like wtf is that right, and then KA-CHING: “Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.” Get this guy a Washington Post column! He’d fit right in, because everyone already despises him. MORE »

Some kooky Yale gal made an art project where she got knocked up and then made herself miscarry a million times, and then she smeared her gross abortion blood together with Vaseline and put it on a large suspended cube and now everybody hates her. She wants to “inspire some sort of discourse” and “provoke inquiry,” which is liberal Ivy League elitist code for “make everybody want to barf.” Why won’t pro-choice Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton apologize for not aborting this Yale student years ago? [Yale Daily News]

Larry Craig attended a Senate hearing on climate change and totally schooled the president of Yale by pointing out the Ivy League university produced more carbon per student than Berkeley. Oh and you know which educational institution produces very little carbon per student? The pinko commies at Boise State, in Craig’s own pinko commie state of Idaho. MORE »

New-age “Cool Britannia” third-way bullshitter Tony Blair didn’t get his dream job (Pope of the UN/EU) so he’s taken the next best thing: a lecturing gig at Yale! Tony has always loved the Ivy League types, and it didn’t really matter whether Bill Clinton or George W. Bush were in the White House — they went to Yale, so he loved them like brothers. MORE »

A former president stopped by his old alma mater to pick up an alumni award. This is the kind of thing George H.W. Bush does all the time, we assume, so what happened in New Haven over the weekend that was of any note? IvyGate has a hunch that George H.W. Bush, Bonesman 4life, was the guest of honor at a Skull and Bones dinner (or something), his first such event since 1998. MORE »

IvyGate has a bombshell: First Twin Barbara Bush may be on Facebook. There’s a friends-only Yale Alum profile with her name on it, and we’d all love to see the contents. MORE »

Even in the midst of a seemingly polite meeting with the new Senate leadership, Bush couldn’t help telling a pointless lie. Gesturing to Harry Reid, Bush says: “Heh, we’re both from out West. He’s from Nevada, I’m from West Texas.”

THIS IS A DIRTY LIE AND WE ARE TIRED OF HEARING IT. We explain, again, after the jump.

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No, this isn’t a Benetton ad. Left to right: Grant Vinik; Jeannie Rhee; Jessie Liu; Justice Samuel Alito (duh); Robin Meriweather; and Anna-Marie Roop.

Last night, one-half of Wonkette attended the annual dinner of the Yale Law School Assocation of Washington, DC, at the National Press Club. The dinner honored Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Yale Law School class of 1975, the newest member of the Supreme Court.

The proceedings were declared off the record, so we can’t tell you about Justice Alito’s thoughtful, erudite, and highly entertaining remarks. Nor can we share with you the fantastic conversations we had over dinner, at a star-studded table. All the journalists — and quasi-journalists — had to put away our notebooks for the night.

But no one said anything about cameras. So we took lots of photographs of the assembled legal luminaries — such as the picture shown above, in which Justice Alito “strikes a pose,” looking like a general about to head into battle.

Additional pictures — including photos of the evening’s other celebrity, Sen. Arlen Specter, Yale Law School class of 1956 — appear after the jump. (These are amateur photos; please don’t mistake them for the work of Liz Gorman.)

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Anderson Cooper recently delivered the Class Day speech at Yale. Here’s the money quote: MORE »

• Reliable Source: Tony Snow takes Helen Thomas’s apple. [WP]

• Heard on the Hill: Star of “My Super Sweet 16″ now interns with Sen. Harry Reid. . . Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) gets manicures. [Roll Call]
• Rush & Molloy: Laura Bush spotted on a Delta shuttle. [NYDN]
• Page Six: Euan Blair gets full scholarship to Yale. . . Bill and Chelsea Clinton receive standing ovations while attending the show “Jersey Boys”. . . A Fran Drescher political campaign? [NYP]