• February 12, 2012

john lennon

Oh look, a weird video of Herman Cain turning John Lennon’s nice old antiwar hippie song about peace and sharing and brotherhood into a mangled paean to fast food and diabetes and frosting, in a gospel robe, for some Jesus people. This will be America’s new national anthem, since Herman Cain is somehow leading Obama [...]

Hello! The boss said to post a link to his new column about, uh, sustainable housing (?), but to make it look magnanimous by also linking to some actually funny stuff written by other Wonkette alumni from the class of 2010 or whenever. So here goes! Juli Weiner is now in charge of Vanity Fair‘s [...]

This is the anniversary of John Lennon being murdered by some creep, and it follows not so far behind what would’ve been Lennon’s 70th birthday — ha ha, and 70 doesn’t feel that old anymore, to us! (Nor does 40, which was Lennon’s age when he was gunned down outside his apartment, while signing stuff [...]

Closing Sunday, May 10: OMG, Lincoln is dying ALL OVER AGAIN on Sunday, when the lovely Library of Congress exhibit boasting a gagillion artifacts in his honor is shutttered for all time. With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition includes such ephemera as the oldest known copy of the Gettysburg address, inaugural speeches [...]