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Meghan McCain: 'I Have Lots of Gay Friends'
Pareene · 04/20/09 11:10AMSouth Still Bitching About How We Made Them Free Their Slaves
Pareene · 04/20/09 10:21AMShockingly, the Senator From AIG Might Be in Trouble
Pareene · 04/03/09 10:34AMMcCain Demands Justice For Long-Dead Boxer
Pareene · 04/01/09 11:13AMSenator McCain has his inconsistent and deeply personal conceptions of "honor" and "justice," which means that occasionally he fights for completely symbolic things that we nonetheless approve of wholeheartedly, like this. Free Jack Johnson! McCain is a huge boxing fan, of course, and he's teaming up with Peter King and Ken Burns today to urge President Obama to pardon Johnson for his 1913 violation of the Mann Act.
90 More Geniuses For You to Blame
Pareene · 03/30/09 04:10PMThe Macking On the President
Pareene · 03/27/09 11:45AMIraq War Turns Six
Pareene · 03/20/09 12:28PMSecret Memo From the Past to Save Republican Party
John Cook · 03/16/09 04:48PMAww Look At 2-Year-Old Maureen Dowd
Pareene · 03/16/09 02:25PMThe Bard's Queer Makeover
John Cook · 03/10/09 10:37AMNine Inch Nails On Dance Party USA
Richard Lawson · 03/06/09 07:00PM'80s, '90s, '00s All Back
Pareene · 03/06/09 06:05PMBlago's Publisher Almost as Sketchy as Blago
Pareene · 03/06/09 12:31PMHappy Birthday, Time Warner. Enjoy It.
Hamilton Nolan · 03/04/09 04:16PMIn Which Tonya Harding Is Still Around, And Mad at Barack Obama
Pareene · 03/04/09 02:33PMMs. Harding is one of the saddest scandal celebrities of the miserable Clinton era, which is saying something, and despite the fact that her name has been a punchline for fifteen years, she still is all "I didn't come here to make friends you don't know me" about a passing jokey reference to the time she had a rival skater kneecapped.
The Amnesiac Newt Comeback Tour Begins
Pareene · 03/02/09 01:58PMBobby Jindal's Goofy, Sing-Songy Lies
Pareene · 02/27/09 04:08PMJindal lied about a dead hero too, so it's extra fun! Sheriff Harry Lee of Jefferson Parish organized volunteers during Katrina to rescue residents trapped on rooftops. This was supposedly against some of that damned bureaucratic red tape or something, and in Jindal's telling he marched into Lee's office and said if the rowboats didn't go out NOW they could just arrest the governor, or something. Well, this was a lie, because Jindal wasn't even in Jefferson Parish when the flood waters were that high. His office admitted that the story was bullshit, then tried to cover for Bobby by claiming that they meant that the dramatic phone conversation happened days later.