ELLE: Your recent film, The Other Boleyn Girl, strikes me as a classic cautionary tale about female ambition. Your character, the notorious Anne, is punished with rape, humiliation, exile, and ultimately execution for being cunning and opportunistic. Her “golden sister” Mary [played by Scarlett Johansson] wants nothing more than a simple country life and is content to accept whatever fate her father, husband, uncle, and king devise for her—and she gets to

I guess it’s what you get when demented Vermonters vent and foment.  Fervently, with bad intent.

Anatole Kaletsky, writing for the Times of London, makes the currently counter-intuitive case that Hillary Clinton is a stronger candidate in the general election than Barack Obama.  Some of his points are stronger than others.  For example, Kaletsky argues: Mrs Clinton has won by decisive margins in every big state that the Democrats must win to send their candidate to the White House. Mr Obama’s lead in the delegate count is

The buzz about the Goolsbee/NAFTA flap has picked up agin, based on the story that the Canadian prime minister’s chief of staff may have attributed some double-talk on NAFTA to the Clinton campaign.  This has Matthew Yglesias, among others, claiming the Goolsbee flap was a “bad rap.”  It has Dan Riehl claiming that “Brodie was talking off the cuff, had Obama mixed up with Clinton and the ‘journalism’ resulted in some

for tat? Did Barack Obama use indicted campaign fund-raiser Tony Rezko as a conduit to get jobs for people in Gov. Blagojevich’s administration? The question arises from a list of 39 people Rezko’s lawyers said in a court filing he urged Blagojevich to give state jobs. Among those on the list were two people who appear to have Obama links and a third who’s now an Obama presidential campaign staffer.

h/t Hot Air:  Men still don’t pull their weight when it comes to housework and child care, but collectively they’re not the slackers they used to be. The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up off the sofa and pitching in, according to a new report in which a psychologist suggests the payoff for doing more chores could be more sex.  [emphasis mine] All right, but

Makes me feel like blowing out a head shop window, man.

The Washington Post has a lengthy piece allowing people inside Hillary Clinton’s campaign to vent about strategist Mark Penn and spouse Bill.  While the whole thing is amusing, the inverted pyramid dictates some of the interesting, but less gossipy material is near the top: Many of her advisers are waging a two-front war, one against Sen. Barack Obama and the second against one another, but their most pressing challenge is

Karl Rove gives Hillary Clinton campaign advice. “Methuselah Gene“:  A type of gene mutation long known to extend the lives of worms, flies and mice also turns up in long-lived humans. Researchers found that among Ashkenazi Jews, those who survived past age 95 were much more likely than their peers to possess one of two similar mutations in the gene for insulinlike growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R). h/t Hot Air

You know, some of my best friends are black. … And I find Steve Harvey hilarious. … Ahem. … … SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!