Watch What We Say Not What We…Dooops

The intrepid Detroit News has tracked down the automobile registrations of the eight members of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry appointed last week to save the American automobile industry.  The paper also checked out the auto info of  the ten White...

Socks   1989 – 2009

Socks, who served as the  White House Cat from 1992-2001, died on Friday near his waterfront home in Hollywood, Maryland.  The former First Feline was believed to have been twenty, although there are some discrepancies involving his date and place of birth.  He had...

Save Acting: Vote Nixon

On today”s Daily Beast, critic Lee Siegel hopes against hope that the Members of the Academy will have the wisdom to reward and encourage real acting —as opposed to camera-aided impersonation— by choosing Frank Langella as Best Actor.  Whereas Mickey...

Sadder But Wiser

Wonkette paid a visit to Harold Ickes — the man who already owned the f bomb when Rahm Emanuel was still in short pants. The son of FDR’s distinguished (and famously cantankerous) Interior Secretary, Mr. Ickes was a successful labor lawyer before becoming...