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more about #appic more comments → AzureTexan: Coiffuregate. more » momof3wildkids: As a former Chicagoan, I can add some color to this. Sam Adams is the attorney you call when you are seriously fucked. A friend of mine who worked a... more » thatgirlinnewyork: that wouldn't be a surprising occurrence in the 6100 block of south ellis. more » The Real JR: HOW CONVENIENT. more » depardoo: I am nowhere near Chicago at this moment. Best regards, G. G. Liddy more » se7a7n7: I'm sure the White House Press Pool invitations have also been sent to Gawker & Wonkette. John Cook, you should check the mail. If it's not there ye... more » Wendy_Kroy: The Washington Times and the NY Post are part of the pool, too. Aren't they "overtly ideological or opinionated organizations," at least as much as H... more » Swordfish: In the White House press room there are signs taped on the walls that read: "Blog-Free Zone." Honestly. more » misslinda: If they put you in the pool, you could do it like a live blog. more » manchops: when will white people ever just shut up and be happy they're still alive? more » AzureTexan: Yeah, well, Spock questioned Kirk when he directed the Starship Enterprise to Omicron Ceti III . . . UNTIL, that is, the stoic first officer fell in ... more » daveyjonesisdead: Their jobs are workfare, pure and simple. The US insists that the food aid it provides be 1) grown in the US and 2) shipped only on US flagged ships. ... more » Mediahohoho: It's okay. She actually knows how to make fossil fuels. more » TheBusinessGuy: Presumably the only thing that can shake her followers' faith in her would be proof that she fathered a black child. more » belltolls: When was she in Orlando? more » -
#plumbers
Break-In at Blago's Lawyer's Office; Wiretap Evidence Stolen
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that computer equipment containing audio files of wiretapped conversations has been stolen from the office Rod Blagojevich's defense attorney. More » -
#printisdead
Get Your White House Pool Reports Right Here
The White House Correspondents' Association has started letting lowly blogs participate in the White House pool, and now the real journalists are all upset about it. More » -
#revisionism
Pirate-Hijack Ship Crew Ungrateful For Being Made Heroes
Well-known fact: Hero naval captain Richard Phillips is the biggest hero next to Sully, due to his heroic act of getting rescued from Somali pirate hijackers. So why is his ungrateful crew staging a retroactive mutiny? More » -
#buses
Palin Not Actually Taking Tacky Bus on Tacky Book Tour
Amazing investigative reporting by the great Joe McGinniss: Sarah Palin says she is conducting her book tour from a bus, but she is actually just hopping on a rented Gulfstream to get from suburban shithole mall to suburban shithole mall. More » -
#housearrest
A Guided Tour of Roman Polanski's Luxury Alpine Prison to the Stars
Poor, beleaguered Roman Polanski is being held in the most inhumane of conditions, a luxury ski chalet with a breathtaking view in a posh Swiss town beneath an endless sky bound only by rainbows. More » -
#shootemup
Marauding Camels to be Rounded Up and Strafed From Helicopters, Palin Style
A plague of thirsty camels has overrun a small, drought-ridden town in the Australian outback. The only way to survive: Round thousands of those suckers up and gun 'em down from choppers. More » -
#surrender
Obama (Sort of) Comments on the Bow Flap: Controversy 'Leaves Me Speechless'
Barack Obama has responded, via an anonymous aide, to charges that by bowing to the Communist emperor of Japan he was actually surrendering and apologizing for World War II, which is technically illegal because he's not a citizen. More » -
#thinspiration
Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
Accused of skipping meals and wasting away, the leader of the free world protested: Am not, I have naturally fine bones, and I'm under a lot of pressure. Hey Barack, quit stealing Nicole Richie's lines.
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#roguethis
Palin's Campaign Chaperone Eviscerates Her for Lying in Book
Nicolle Wallace, the campaign aide Palin blames for her disastrous Couric interview and other crises, struck back on The Rachel Maddow Show last night. And, holy crap, did she tear Sarah a new one.
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#crime
Balloon Boy's Parents to Plead Guilty to Hoaxing America's Cable News Personalities
Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of that cute vomiting boy who did not get lost in the air in a balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges that they concocted the story in order to become famous, which happened. More » -
#crime
Arkansas Anchorwoman Killer Facing Death
An Arkansas man has been convicted of killing Anne Pressly, the 26 year-old Arkansas TV anchorwoman with a small role in the movie W who was attacked and stabbed in her home last year. The motive was not grand. More » -
#spitzerfiles
The Spitzer Files: How TV Talking Heads Get Their Cues from Flacks
In our third installment from the Spitzer Files—our collection of e-mails between Eliot Spitzer's flack and reporters at the height of his hooker scandal—we congratulate the reporters who actually try to learn things before they go on TV. More » -
#pissingmatch
Supreme Court Justice Censors High School Newspaper's Puff Piece About Him
Cherry on the cake? It was famed defender of the First Amendment Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and fancy-pants Manhattan prep school Dalton's class rag. More » -
#howthingswork
David Plouffe Is a Two-Faced Machiavelli Who Broke Our Hearts
David Plouffe ran Barack Obama's campaign as a steady and extended fuck-you to the hyperventilating Drudge junkies at Politico, and we loved him for it. Now he's admitted he was leaking to them the whole time. More » -
#mediacrack
Computer Zombies Pity Television Zombies
In your typical Tuesday media column: Americans are zombie slaves to various screens, journalists will compromise for money like everyone else in the world, Indymedia tells the Justice Department to fuck off, and your comically mean reporter of the day. More » -
#fearmongering
How the Ft. Hood Shooter Brings Radical Clerics and Right-Wing Nuts Together
There are sketchy reports that Maj. Nidal Hasan tried to contact "people associated with Al Qaeda," and some are calling Ft. Hood "the largest single terror act in America since 9/11" — something both terrorists and wingnuts wish were true. More » -
#therich
Time Warner Still Has Three Corporate Jets That Should Be Sold
Sure, about 450 Time Warner magazine workers will soon be jobless, but times are also tough for company executives: They just can't sell their company-sponsored private jets, and must continue to possess the posh mini-airliners. Such a bummer. More » -
#spitzerfiles
A Note on Sourcing on The Spitzer Files
This morning, we published e-mails between New York Times reporters and Eliot Spitzer's flacks. Some commenters have suggested the post demonstrates a lack of familiarity with "journalism." Actually, we contacted the Times reporters for response, and a funny thing happened. More » -
#ransom
Did the New York Times Lie about Paying a Ransom for David Rohde's Release?
Blogger Michael Yon—one of the few people to break the New York Times' news blackout over the kidnapping of reporter David Rohde in Afghanistan—reports via Twitter that former CIA operatives paid a ransom to secure Rohde's release. More » -
#peterbraunstein
Inside Edition Finds Someone to Look Down On
Peter Braunstein is a convicted rapist and certified psycho with serious mental problems. But he's so tabloid-y! What's his latest crazy celebrity obsession, for the public to point and laugh about? Inside Edition knows! More »
