Nate Silver takes a look at her favorability ratings since 1992 and her impressive ability to withstand criticism.
Christopher Frizzelle
Posted inComedy
Louis C. K. Answers a Few Questions
This just in! Louis C. K. is fucking funny. And now he’s given possibly the best Proust Questionnaire ever. It begins: What is your idea of perfect happiness?Not ever having to fill out this questionnaire. What is your greatest fear?You think I’m going to tell you that? You think I’m going to let you print […]
Posted inPolitics
A Big Storm Requires Big Government
Does Mr. Romney really believe that financially strapped states would do a better job than a properly functioning federal agency? Who would make decisions about where to send federal aid? Or perhaps there would be no federal aid, and every state would bear the burden of billions of dollars in damages. Required reading from the […]
Posted inElection 2012
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on 60 Minutes
The two chums appeared in matching jackets, matching lapel pins, matching haircuts, matching tans, and matching shirts. (Ryan’s shirt is ever so slightly a different shade, but the same pattern.) They have matching blond wives, and Ryan’s matching what Romney did on income-tax disclosures. Yeah, yeah, they’re both opposed to gay marriage, but if this […]
Posted inSex
Questions for Savage that Were Cut from the Interview Interview
A bunch of things from this interview with Dan Savage for Interview magazine last week didn’t make the final cut—including questions about Berlin, stale cake, coconut cake, Grindr, and Ashton Kucher. Here they are. You once described bathhouses as “whorehouses staffed by volunteers.”That’s right. What do you make of Grindr?Grindr is the whorehouse in your […]
Posted inTV
Required Viewing: Alternate Version of Clint Eastwood’s Halftime-in-America Commercial
It’s required because hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Posted inDrunk
Ryan Gosling in Pajamas, Mouthing Along to a Drunk Recitation of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”
Eva Mendes and Jim Carrey seem to be slacking off, but Gosling nails it. He’s got every stray verbal slip-up down.
Posted inSports
Comparing Penn State to the Catholic Church
You have to read some Christianist rhetoric about temptation and sin, but he’s right.
Posted inOccupy
Required Viewing: The Occupy Movement Occupies a Fancy Breakfast Where Union-Busting Shitbag Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin Is Trying to Speak
This is the first time I’ve ever heard “Mic check!” “Mic check!” “Mic check!” “Mic check!” and been filled with happiness—look how effective it can be in the right circumstance. Good work, guys.
Posted inPolitics
Liberals Are Ugly Cocaine Users Who Can’t Speak in Complete Sentences
At least according to Jason Mattera, spokesman for Young America’s Foundation (“committed to freedom, conservative ideas, the Republican platform and traditional values”). Now look at this photo of him wearing makeup. (If it’s not big enough for you, click on it.)
Posted inMovies & TV
Against Avatar
I fell for it, you fell for it, everyone fell for it. It was Jon Stewart, not usually a person to fall for shit, talking about how Avatar has “reinvented filmmaking” (before he’d even seen it), that led me to the theater. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c <td […]