Cash monies.

President Obama has decided to accept unlimited donations from corporations in order to finance his inaugural festivities next month, his inaugural committee announced on Friday. While taxpayers always pick up the tab for the costs associated with the actual inaugural ceremony (which will be private this year), but the extracurricular parties, balls, and events come [...]

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Bedazzled.

Even considering that Team Obama raked in close to a billion dollars total for their 2012 campaign, $40 million for their celebrity designed-and-promoted line of supercool campaign merchandise is still not a completely insignificant haul, especially considering the glamorous attention that went with it. Via TIME: The president’s fourth-largest bundler, [Vogue editor in chief Anna] [...]

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Er, really?

The Obama campaign released a new ad this morning in which we’re treated to an epical presentation of President Obama’s hard-fought achievements — because nothing says “historic” like a classic Morgan Freeman narration. Every president inherits challenges. Few have faced so many. Four years later, our enemies have been brought to justice. Our heroes are [...]

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When "progressive" gets regressive.

Not that their fake war on wimmenses!-crusade ever really had a real shred of credibility, mind you, but at least things like “reproductive rights” and “the Lilly Ledbetter Act” kinda’, sorta’ sound like attempts at seriousness, even if it’s only deceptively so. Last week, the Obama campaign unveiled a range of graphically attractive but intellectually [...]

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Frack.

Because I’m just so wildly fond of celebrities using their pop-cultural platforms to ‘educate’ others on complex economic and environmental issues that they don’t actually understand at all, you can probably guess just how excited I am about this little gem of intellectual dishonesty, courtesy of Matt Damon and our enlightened Brahmin in Tinseltown, due [...]

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Belieb.

Not exactly a palate-cleanser of the humorous sort, but I thought it was an amazingly uplifting and perhaps little-known story about one of the world’s biggest pop stars. In a sit-down interview with NBC, Pattie Mallette, mother of uber-famous teen-heartthrob Justin Bieber, reveals how she faced a tumultuous childhood of abuse, hardship, and drugs, and [...]

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The youths.

I’m really hoping that the almost 17 percent unemployment rate among those aged 18 through 29 is going to do something to quell the blind and unbridled enthusiasm we witnessed from the youth vote last time around, maybe to help bolster their immunity to hopey-changey rigmarole like this. Chyeah, brah! I can totally see why [...]

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Frack.

Blergh. I apologize in advance for my intellectual prudery — I realize that Jimmy Fallon’s show is meant to be lighthearted, late-night comedy — but that’s precisely what irks me about this. Thanks to advances in the natural gas industry, largely made possible by the decades-old practice of hydraulic fracturing, the world is witnessing amazing [...]

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Is this real life?

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the home of actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick for a joint fundraising appearance on Thursday night, during which the president offered the gathered stars a rather frightening piece of flattery. The intimate dinner banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,000 each. … Speaking [...]

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Honeymoon's over.

Oh, how the mighty fall! When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, plenty of Europeans were arguably more excited than Americans about the United States’ new celebrity-in-chief. European youths turned out in droves to cheer the new world leader, glad to be rid of his uncivilized cowboy of a predecessor, and the Nobel crowd [...]

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Celebrity-in-Chief, indeed.

Yeahhh, so… you know how Democrats are all up-in-arms about political contributions after Wisconsin, because people with abnormal amounts of money are ostensibly able to hold undue influence in the political realm? And you know how President Obama dislikes the decadent antics of wealthy fat cats? About that. Based on an analysis of the president’s [...]

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"This is not 'President of the United States' kind of stuff."

The Obama campaign has been making much ado about a few of their celebrity connections of late, getting Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker in on the act with ads unveiled during the weekend’s MTV movie awards to raise some dolla’ dolla’ bills for his reelection campaign. Mr. Limbaugh, to put it gently, is somewhat [...]

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I know, I know. Heartbreaking.

Yesterday evening, as I was browsing the Internet, I found myself absentmindedly clicking through a slideshow of “Supermodels: Then and Now.” What can I say? I like fashion, the intriguing artistry and aggravating arrogance behind it. I also really like slide shows, with their wordless imagery and quippy captions. At the end of a long [...]

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Who knew Mark Wahlberg was this genuine?

If I’m going to write about Miley Cyrus ripping Rick Santorum, Mila Kunis praising Obama and Susan Sarandon smarting off about the pope, then the least I can do is highlight a celebrity interview in which the star in question actually utters a few edifying sentences. This clip from Townhall.com’s Greg Hengler represents almost the [...]

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