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Video: Incredibly Offensive Anti-Obama Ad Depicts Him As Captain Of A Slave Ship
Whose idea was this? Because it was…not a good one. More »
John Boehner’s Name Makes Him Inevitable Candidate For Next Sex Scandal
Yesterday, Maureen O’Connor over at Gawker had one of the biggest stories in the site’s nine year history. The young reporter broke the news of Congressman Christopher Lee‘s Craigslist sex ads, which lead to Lee’s resignation in a record-breaking 3 hours. We’re blaming it on the Gawker redesign. More »
College Life: Students Need To Know About The DREAM Act
Though you might have taken it for granted each time you jotted your social security number on a standardized test or a college application, you probably didn’t realize that those numbers were actually a pretty terrific privilege during the college process. More »
Ex-’Real World’-er Now A U.S. Congressman
Things were polite, then they were real and now they’re back to being polite again. Sean Duffy, a cast member of 1997′s Real World: Boston is now a Wisconsin congressman. Sean’s married to another former Real World-er, Rachel Campos of San Francisco, with whom he has six kids.
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Crushable Quotable: Krystal Ball Talks Sex Toy Pic
Congressional candidate Krsytal Ball‘s name is suddenly on everyone’s lips, but not for the reason the Virginia politican ever would have hoped for: After her opponent Rob Whittman released photos last week of Krystal and her ex-husband goofing around at a holiday party, the pics went viral the second people realized that her husband’s Rudolph nose was actually a sex toy. Was it sexist? An unethical privacy violation? Was it even that big of a deal?
Well, Krystal was given her soapbox Monday on the Huffington Post, and in her column about the fallout from the pics, she made one thing clear: looking at those photos made her think of one person. Hillary Clinton. More »
Congressional Candidate Krystal Ball’s Racy Photos Revealed! (NSFW)
With a name like Krystal Ball, you probably should rethink running for congress in Virginia unless you have especially thick skin, especially when your opponent is Republican stalwart Rob Wittman. That being said, everyone deserves a fair shake in government, even if they have a totally porny name. What the 29-year-old should have taken into account though, is that nothing on the Internet is sacred, not even those photos of you putting a dildo on your ex-husband’s nose during a Christmas party. Ruh-roh. More »
Today: on Sick, Sad World – Stephen Colbert is going to be testifying in front of a congressional subcommittee, in character, for ‘Protecting America’s Harvest.’ How would you even swear in under oath for something like that. (Christian Science Monitor)
Alec Baldwin for Congress?
I am not sure if Alec Baldwin is serious about this, or is just playing an elaborate joke on all of us peons, but SWEET BUTTERED MOSES, he wants to run for Congress? Really, Alec? Really? Here’s what he had to say:
“How much longer will Chuck Schumer stay as senator? After 2013 Bloomberg will be gone. What happens then? Do I run for Congress on Long Island? What’s Tim Bishop going to do? He represents my district. People get sick,… More »