Juli Weiner
Juli Weiner was Wonkette's beloved intern and books columnist and then morning editor until she was hired away by Vanity Fair in 2010.
Simply gratuitous, that black and white drawing of what sex is. [NSFW]
Look these teabaggers are just like actual Republicans, what with drawing up contracts and the young black (or navy blue) people dancing, for hipness and hopness! Here we have the “Contract From America,” which appears to be precisely what it sounds like, with exactly as many opportunities for reader-participation as you were hoping.
Residents of Massachusetts must decide who they like better: Scott Brown. Or Martha Coakley. [Boston Globe] Many non-Haiti countries have issued a very generous “It’s cool, no worries” in response to Haiti’s debt. [New York Times] Between 2002 and 2006, the FBI illegally listened to 2000 of your phone calls. It also got overly touchy-feely [...]
So, here’s this new Sarah Palin thing, in which, miraculously she is unable to name a founding father and eventually settles on George Washington, America’s first non-Ronald Reagan President. Glenn Beck (rightly!) gets to feel superior. Absolutely heartbreaking. [The Awl]
The Republicans’ new strategy for winning back the House in 2010 is comprised solely of their strategy for winning back the House in 1994. Oh yes, it is Time for another Contract with America, except maybe this time, John Boehner hints, it will might be called an “Agenda with America,” because maybe this sound Internet-ier? [...]
It’s so great that Charlie Sheen is finally getting a platform of his own, you guys! Let’s see, what else…
All the aid that you donated yesterday via your Facebook status and also actual organizations that will send relief money is having a hard time reaching people buried under their own homes in Haiti. [New York Times] Oh and speaking of: Haiti has been the “Iranian elections of natural disasters” for Twitter, which, almost in [...]
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said a brave “the fuck I care” to his friends, Some Republicans, who are demanding that McConnell order Mark Halperin’s PR rep. Harry Reid to step down as Senate Majority Leader. “‘I think that is an issue for the Democratic conference,’ McConnell said at morning press conference at the Capitol. [...]
If you were considering skipping this year’s Safari Club International Annual Hunters’ Convention, starring our country’s first white president George W. Bush, ho ho ho, three words for you good sir: “Also Liz Cheney.”
Think Progress wrote a news story about Tea Party something, presumably Michael Steele-related but who knows, and in the process, unearthed the Greatest Photo and Caption of Our Time or Any Other: It is of Michael Steele’s lapels wearing a very fresh-faced Michael Steele. The Internet has not seen archival research of this sort since [...]
“Arizona’s Sy Hersh” Meghan McCain has uncovered secret publicly available newspaper articles, YouTube videos and blog posts indicating without a doubt that Michael Steele purposely sought to win his current chairmanship of the RNC. This proves intent! Which has all sorts of corollary sub-meaning, contextually. For example: did you know it is the definition of [...]
Medical marijuana is now legal in the nearby state of New Jersey! This is a thing MTV orchestrated, for its popular Jersey Shore documentary series. [New York Times] Miep Gies, the very nice Dutch lady who hid Anne Frank and her family from the cast of Jersey Shore, has died at 100. [Washington Post] Today [...]
We said there was no cure! Quarantine the “Twitter part” of the Internet now please. [Twitter] UPDATE: Meg annotates this very confusing Twitter message with a follow-up Twitter message—as is customary in the hobby of journalism—after the jump.
This is what a Stage II of a Daily Beast column looks like. There is no cure. [Twitter]
