While I don’t really talk about politics on this blog I have always been a close follower. Having my undergraduate degree in history with a minor in political science I geek out over the political process and how things work. One of the negative bi-products of this is that more and more I find mys...

Today in the magical land of Twitteronia: Jimmy Fallon schmoozed the Twitter-loving press, Ana Marie Cox cried because of Jake Tapper, and a tuna-melt experiment went badly awry. Late Night host Jimmy Fallon uttered Twitter gibberish Quad City Times columnist Melissa Coulter succumbed to caffeine. S...

Ana Marie is apparently going to read David Denby's illiterate and factually challenged book of nob-slobber, Snark. She starts by listing all these things that Denby believes "snark" to be. Some are right there on his title page. Snark is mean! Snark is personal! Snark is ruining conversations! In s...

I think the distinction will be determined by who gets prayed to in the former setting....

Yes -- "perhaps." Hard to believe there are people who harbor doubts about this. Not so shocking to learn they dwell on the left side of the aisle. Former "Wonkette" blogger Ana Marie Cox (shown in photo), a contributor to Time magazine and The Daily Beast, appeared on Rachel Mad...

HBO announced it was moving forward with a pilot for Washingtonienne, based on the book that lightly fictionalized Senate staffer Jessica Cutler's adventures as an anonymous blogger who took money from politically-powerful men for sex including, famously, for lots of ass fucking. The show, whose dev...

Who will ensure Twitter tweets uninterrupted? That's the question posed by Silicon Alley Insider's Hank Williams about the popular wireless and Web-based application that allows users to share their brain farts on the Web in real time. Everyone from Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody ("I'm ...

It was quite the star-studded affair in Washington D.C. Saturday evening for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, perhaps the District's biggest social night of the year. This is the one where journalists and the politicos they cover congregate in an overt celebration of their inappropriate...

FINANCE • Financier George Soros says that a "superbubble" is bursting, and that financial woes have just begun. [DealBook/NYT] • Analysts say the economy has further to fall. [WSJ] • Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein says hard times on the Street are nearing an end. Pl...

You know the Colbert Report , and how it's really successful? And how other forms of news are less popular and some are dying? CNN noticed that too! So their Headline News channel will soon be airing Not Just Another Cable News Show, a weekly program with a light take on hard news using memorable ga...