Week Four of Brooklyn Kickball is in full effect! "Scrappy," "The Kaiser" and "The Clarkmeister" are fighting for a title against a tough field of ironically-clad competitors. They even eat cupcakes with beer in them before games. Yay! [NYP, pic]
Wonderful, a lengthy GQ profile of Lou Dobbs. The millionaire Harvard-educated television celebrity and populist champion on the middle-class is totally not as bad as you think! (Also: he is maybe running for president!)
Republican Virginia Governor who won election by posing as a reasonable moderate declares "Confederate History Month." Every reasonable person in the nation offended. Your American Spectator headline: "Leftist Race Baiting in Virginia."
James Cameron announced his hatred of Beck for the past three years because Beck called him "the anti-Christ". Last night, Beck responded to Cameron's comments on his show. So two people nobody likes don't like each other? Weird.
White extremists, angry at the passage of health care reform, are mobilizing to punish the Godless Democratic lawmakers who are responsible for the coming of Armageddon. The FBI is involved after a series of death threats. Here are some highlights.
Former State Senator Hiram Monserrate lost his bid to take back his seat yesterday. Monserrate says he may make a run for his old Assembly seat next. We have some other suggestions for him!
Today in Queens, there is a special election for the State Senate seat of face-slashing gay-hating Hiram Monserrate. Hiram's running, along with two people who aren't violent psychopaths.
Next week is the special election to fill the former State Senate seat of Hiram Monserrate, who was expelled after slashing his girlfriend's face. Hiram's running. His platform: he's just like Barack Obama, and his opponent is "The Gay Caballero."
Senator Jim Bunning is an asshole. Today he gave a reporter the finger, on camera! But the important thing about him is that apparently Vice President Smilin' Joe Biden does a hilarious impression of him.
Anyone in New York politics who's ever felt like taking a rhetorical piss on David Paterson for their pleasure (and constituents' collective bloodthirst) is seizing the day and whipping it out. For example, enlightened charmer Ruben Diaz went to town!
Ruben Diaz Sr, the worst New York State Senator who has not personally slashed his girlfriend's face with a broken glass (well, maybe besides Pedro Espada), has released a statement blaming Governor David Paterson's woes on gay people.
Democratic deficit hawk who never met a tax cut or agricultural subsidy he didn't love Evan Bayh is retiring from the Senate. Because of partisanship! Oh, partisanship. God bless you.
Today, the New York State Senate may (or may not) expel violent lady-slasher Hiram Monserrate. There are extra sergeants-at-arms and state troopers posted inside and outside the chambers, just in case. (They should hide bottles and glassware!)
Mel Gibson is trying to make a come back. We do not want him to. Case in point, his weird interview with a WGN reporter. He calls him an "asshole"—not the best way to promote your new movie!
Are you watching the Don't Ask, Don't Tell hearings on the C-SPAN3 right now? (Or maybe you are reading Ana Marie Cox's liveblog?) Guess what: John McCain is the worst.
John Edwards decided to follow up his admission of what everyone already knew by going to Haiti to participate in relief efforts. Coincidentally, cameras followed him!
Rush Limbaugh said various dumb and bigoted things about Haiti. People criticized him for this. Now—and who could've seen this coming?—he is digging in, and saying even more controversial things. Like somehow this is related to death panels?
