Yeah, you've seen the video of Barack and Michelle dancing to "At Last" at the Neighborhood Ball, but the party got started after that. Behold as the 44th President of the United States dances with thumbs (at 3:54), and does a righteous hip bump with a big girl (at 4:34). And not a Bea...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free The news channels and CSPAN have Inauguration coverage all night. At 8, ABC has The Neighborhoods: An Inauguration, followed by A Moment In Time: The Inauguration of Barack Obama. FOX has a new American...

An explainer, for all you Phawker interns who weren't born yet: Back in the '88, MTV had this guy Randee of the Redwoods (real name: Jim Turner) as their "official" candidate for president. I know what you're thinking, but remember, this was way before "The Hil...

* First, completely on the serious, pause a moment in memory of Andrea Collins Smith, who documented her struggle with inflammatory breast cancer on PunkRockMommy until she passed away Saturday. She is survived by her husband, Kelly, six children, and everyone who spent time on her site and came awa...

* Last night's Anderson Cooper 360 featured a lively, if baffling, panel discussion about what Michelle Obama's racial identity is going to mean to her husband's supposedly post-partisan, post-racial politics presidential run. At one point, Cooper asked his guest whether there is some discussion nee...

By AMY Z. QUINN I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Alice Paul, OG suffragist and Jersey Girl nonpareil, would not vote for John McCain as some protest of how the Democratic primary played out. Women's rights and the struggle against racism were -- are -- too inextricably linked to think she'd h...

BY AMY Z. QUINN Yes, it smarts. Yes, I'm angry and disappointed today. And yes, I'll still vote for Barack Obama in November. But you should understand why I'm not feeling great about it this morning. Now that it's over, now that everybody's been able to run their ecstatic headlines, can we all just...

* Barack Obama overtakes Hillary Clinton in NJ almost three months after she spanked him in the state's primary. For the love of God man, what will the superdelegates think?  Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll released this morning says: Currently, more Democrats and Democrat-leaning i...

I haven't come right out and said it before, because it wasn't time. It is now. With the two Democratic contenders so similar in so many areas of policy, the choice for Pennsylvania, and for the country, is about more than what somebody's pastor said, or who wears a flag pin, or the presence or abse...

Over at OpenLeft.com, Natasha Chart recounts her effort to get a quote out of Maureen Dowd  at the Democratic debate Wednesday night -- an exchange I witnessed in its entirety. It all went down the way Chart says, including the contrast between MoDo, who minced around the press room in an expen...