• February 12, 2012

Kal Penn

Working at the White House is such a drag right now, for all the hip young people, because everything is terrible and there is no Hope, Change, etc. That guy from the White Castle movies has decided (again) that he would rather be on CBS than get paid $41,000 a year to be depressed, because [...]

KAL PENN GETS FITTING FAREWELL TO WHITE HOUSE STINT: “Actor-turned White House aide Kal Penn was robbed at gunpoint near his D.C. townhouse early Tuesday, police sources told the Washington Examiner. Penn, whose real name is Kalpen Modi, was walking in the 1500 block of S Street NW around 1:20 a.m. when a man with [...]

IT SEEMED LIKE IT WOULD BE FUN AT THE TIME: “Kal Penn, star of the ‘Harold & Kumar’ movies, will leave his job in the Obama administration to appear in a new Christmas-themed flick as his signature stoner character, Entertainment Weekly reported Friday, citing the actor’s representatives.” Sellout. Well, re-sellout. [NY Post]

Those of you that watch the television drama House noticed last night that famous actor Kal Penn’s character committed suicide. Oh yes, uh, SPOILER ALERT, a few words ago. Well guess what, he’s not dead in real life, yet! In fact the reason he committed suicide on the teevee is so he could go work [...]

Today marks the two-year anniversary of The Macaca Incident, in which Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen, a then-likely 2008 presidential nominee, called a Jim Webb spy “macaca” — which is like the ersatz “n*****” in certain tropical parts of Asia — leading to a series of Prejudiced hole-digging by Allen (“I’m a Jew? Who knew! [...]