newVideoPlayer("/arichrisfight.flv", 506, 423,""); Oh man. Who even knows why this happened, but Chris Matthews and former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer had a hilarious bitchy fight a few minutes ago. Ari calls Chris "shameful" and says "how dare you" and then they talk over each other for a fe...

Hooray! The Times found their new token conservative! Taking over for Bill Kristol: Mr. Ross Douthat. Douthat is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he blogs. He is one of those "reasonable" "centrist" conservatives, like David Brooks except not so much of an asshole. Yes, he thinks fertilized eg...

Hah, someone fell asleep while Chip Reid asked Robert Gibbs a boring question during a White House press briefing. But who? Based on the press room seating charts, it looks to be someone from the Wall Street Journal. It doesn't look like Susan Davis or Sara Murray, the Journal's most prominent women...

Why oh why isn't Barack Obama proud of his hugely important Irish heritage? Wait, didn't you know? The preisdent is 3.1% Irish, and to really annoying Irish people, that is enough. See, the president goes on and on about his "black" dad and "white" mom but he never acknowledges the importance in his...

In this week's Star: hilarious and slightly depressing "gossip" from Levi Johnston's bitchy, MySpace-y sister Mercede! Do you care about the petty dramas of unwed teen parents in far-off Alaska? You do if it also involves Parallel Universe Vice President Sarah Palin, who ascended to the post of Empr...

Man, if there was ever a Senator who should not ask strangers "do you know who I am?" it is David Vitter of Louisiana. And yet, that is what he said at Dulles last week. Vitter is famous mostly for sleeping with prostitutes and then just not resigning over it, even after everyone in the world heard ...

Little right-wing creep kid Charles Stam sent a two thousand word letter to the editor of the Horace Mann Record, his high-school paper. We all remember Stam, right? New York Magazine introduced us to the kid last year, when he was a senior at the prestigious and completely insufferable prep school....

Did you know that the reason talk show hosts don't have sidekicks anymore is because of blogs and Dick Cheney? Alessandra Stanley cracked the code! Alessandra Stanley is the New York Times TV critic, even though it's pretty much obvious that she hates television and doesn't really watch it that much...

The Bush administration lawyers who formulated and justified the worst abuses and excesses of the administration's war on terror conduct are having trouble finding work! They should be having trouble finding judges willing to hear their appeals, but no, instead they're all just bitching about how no...

Sean Delonas, America's Favorite Editorial Cartoonist, isn't on the New York Post's Page Six today! WE WON! Or, you know, maybe he picked a weird time for a vacation, he's normally off on Mondays. Update: Drat. It's just his normal day off. Nevermind. You'll be seeing his regularly scheduled racist,...