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The annotated George Ryan [the Illinios Gov. in Jail], part deuxThis is a gloss of the apology that Governor Ryan released from prison. A parsing of language used: "I must say something--"
As one of the most notorious and committed Conservatives here on Newsvine, I might be expected to be voting for the Republican nominee for President when November rolls around. And, in fact, unless something radically unexpected happens, I will do so.
How Obama Pivoted the Right Wing Smear On Clothing Accessories Into A Criticism of How Their Party Is Violating Core American PrinciplesBy far, the most significant pattern in how our political discourse is shaped is that the right-wing noise machine generates scurrilous, petty, personality-based innuendo about Democratic candidates, and the establishment press then mindlessly repeats it and mainstreams it.
'Wash Post' Cartoonist Toles Mocks His Paper The Toles cartoon shows a reader looking at an article in an unnamed paper with the headline: "Obama's eating of vegetables fuels rumors about him."
Smear Forward: The New Right-Wing Smear MachineRumormongering and whisper campaigns are as old as politics itself (throughout Thomas Jefferson's presidency opposition newspapers and pamphlets spread the word of his affair with Sally Hemings), but never has there been a medium as perfectly suited to the widespread anonymous di …
Dirty Bard Book Is Romp of a Read "Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns" (Gotham Books. $19.99. 304 pages), by Pauline Kiernan: In high school, when Miss Grundy rubbed your adolescent nose in Shakespeare, she was perhaps unaware that the Bard of Avon had ye pottye mouthe.
Gay sex smear traced to Liberals AMID an escalating brawl over political mud-slinging in the countdown to the election, the latest smear on a Liberal figure has been traced to his own party.
These quotes from the Harry Potter books, painstakingly compiled by a group on Facebook, invite a less innocent interpretation than (we assume) intended by JK Rowling. Some of these are very very funny.
Man in underwear uses wife's truck to chase down truck thiefThe owner of a stolen pickup truck, wearing only his underwear, used his wife's van to chase down the thief. The 29-year-old man was sipping coffee in his garage before dawn Sunday when his Ford Ranger suddenly started up and roared off.
The most important holiday in February has finally arrived. I'm not talking about Valentine's Day and I'm sure as hell not talking about President's Day: I'm talking, of course, about International 'That's What She Said' Day.
Augusto Pinochet dies, Gepetto in tearsSANTIAGO, Chile - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who terrorized his opponents for 17 years after taking power in a bloody coup, died Sunday, putting an end to a decade of intensifying efforts to bring him to trial for human rights abuses blamed on his regime. He was 91.
Game bikini babes bannedThe video game industry's annual trade show in Los Angeles opened its doors to its exhibitors yesterday with organizers ordering women staffing the booths to cover up or face a $5000 fine.
ILM Transformers Test FootageOne of the things that make rumor and innuendo so appealing when it comes to film news is that it doesn't always have to be the final product that's discussed.
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