Trump fired back later Wednesday in a TV interview, calling O’Donnell a “slob,” among other insults. “I never went bankrupt, but she said I went bankrupt. So probably I’ll sue her because it would be fun.” I’m all for fun, but this critter gets more than enough media face time. I don’t know. It’ll keep the trial lawyers happy, but it will only prove what we already know: she’s a
December 22, 2006
A Telling Vignette [Dan Collins]
Driving to work this morning, shortly after 5 am, the BBC World Service was running a man-on-the-street piece about the record $40 million dollar bonus paid out to Morgan Stanley’s CEO. The chirpy American reporter interviewed a hot dog vendor who said that he hadn’t noticed any increase in his business, then went to a man “selling $10 scarves; the sign says they’re 100% cashmere”: Radio reporterette: “So, what do
December 21, 2006
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST reports from the heart of the Blizzard of 2006
Well, it’s pretty cold, I can tell you that. And the snow? Every-frickin’-where. Like Michael Moore sunning himself, I imagine: an undulating expanse of white spread as far as the eye can see. Only, you know—without any nacho cheese dribbles punctuating the nipples or caught in the drift troughs. Developing…
December 21, 2006
On Apologies [Dan Collins]
As Advent draws to a close, and Christmas nears, perhaps it would be fitting to perform a spiritual inventory, and consider whom you may have wronged in thought or in deed this year. On the other hand, this is also your opportunity to demand an apology from any wanker who may really have pissed you off this year. In other words, I’m inviting you to make a big mess, but
December 21, 2006
Ahmadinejad at the Kosher Deli [Dan Collins]
Try the Holy Infant! So tender and mild! (Yes, I denounce it. And renounce it. Also repudiate. But, unfortunately, I think it’s teh funny, and that’s justification enough.)
December 21, 2006
Out of the Closet: Basque Bears [Dan Collins]
Good news for Andrew Sullivan: Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain Viva la revoluccion!
December 20, 2006
Headline of the Day (CraigC)
LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 20 (UPI) A survey conducted by Auntie Anne’s Pretzels of Lancaster, Pa., finds 34 percent of real-bearded mall Santas have been urinated on by a child. Big deal. I’ll bet 100% of the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas have urinated on themselves. H/T Gail *
December 20, 2006
The results are in, baby!
Well, it ain’t the Wizbang awards, but I’ll take it. NOW QUICKLY! SOMEBODY FETCH ME SOME SCONES!
December 20, 2006
If instead of a self-important Wall Street Journal assistant editorial features editor with a laughable sense of situational irony, James Rago were a toast point at an upscale party attended—inexplicably!—by those who should have been stopped at the door and sent to Arby’s.
Rago: “No, no, no! You don’t dip me into the Beluga like I’m some barbecue-flavored Pringle, you insufferable…thing. Instead, you delicately smoothe the caviar across the white of my belly, then nibble me with gentle relish, allowing the burst of essence and oil to dance along the tongue and the curve of the palate. “Or if it helps, just imagine yourself french kissing your cousin after plying her with a
December 20, 2006
Ninety-Seven Percent of Married Men [Dan Collins]
covet premarital sex. Really. You can’t make this stuff up. Well, you can. But it’s troothy. It does make this post by Eugene Volokh on a 10-year sentence for a 17-year-old boy having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl seem even more of a travesty, though. Time to reread Measure for Measure.