Luke Russert is both Paul Metzler AND Tracy Flick: CNN’s Jay McMichael was the top vote getter in the Radio & Television Correspondence Association board elections today. NBC’s Luke Russert, who ran a high stakes “Vote for Vigor” campaign, complete with fancy cupcakes, ultimately lost with 52 votes. Other top vote getters included NPR’s Andrea [...]

Digby on Luke, Son of Russ, Grandson of Big Russ, Great Grandson of Big Fucking Russ:

Set iPod to randomize. Push play: Land of Nod – The New Mastersounds It’s Different For Girls – Joe Jackson Dixie Chicken (Live) – Little Feat Lovers Rock – Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey Only Love Can Break Your Heart – St. Etienne Appalachian Spring – Leonard Bernstein and a bunch of other people Carmelita [...]

Hey remember that Republican guy whose idea of “food, folks and fun” is wine, football, and beating and choking the shit out of his girlfriend so that she can’t say the safe word “green balloons“? Here’s what we know: The woman, who lives in Sikeston, Missouri, told police that Jetton and she spoke by phone [...]

As reported the other day, back when she was a little co-ed and going through colleges like Tiger Woods goes through women, that Sarah Palin lady was not fond of Epicanthic Fold-Americans…

Stanley Fish has found his Basquiat, his Jack Abbott. Someone needs to tell Fish that his post was written better and longer by Stephen Millhauser in 1972. I’d give him about twenty minutes in a room with Sarah Palin, listening to her drop her g’s while talkin’ about Trig and snow machines and the cold [...]

I see that McMegan has posted her annual Holiday Gift Guide made up of many utensil thingamajigs for the kitchen as kitchen gadgetry is the porn of the post-hipster generation. Why “Holiday” instead of Christmas? Because Megan hates Jesus. Report her here. As always, with every purchase direct from McMegan’s semi-thoughtful list, she gets a [...]

Uh yeah. How cold is it? This cold. I’ve remade the bed three times today. He comes out, eats, pees, poops, and goes back to bed. And, yes yes, I know where you live this is probably sounds like a nice spring day but we live here for a reason, so this is just wrong. [...]

American Urban Radio’s White House Correspondent April Ryan gets all up in White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’s grill about THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THIS ADMINISTRATION: Borrowing Candy Crowley’s “some people say” schtick, Ryan points out that “It’s been bantered around Washington” that Desiree Rogers (who thinks she’s all that) was trying to “upstage” [...]

Matt Yglesias has a link to the 100 Best Last Lines from Novels(pdf), and like a few of his commenters, who piped up later in comments, I was surprised to see that the closing of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It was egregiously omitted. Say what? Eventually, all things merge into one, and a [...]