The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Jane Russell, R.I.P.

The passing of Hollywood screen legend Jane Russell reminds us that nowadays everything is political. When someone famous dies, we can’t be permitted merely to remember the person’s life and work. No, the celebrity must be placed in political context, for how else shall we know whether to remember them fondly or not? Turning dead people into […]

‘The Most Important Role of My Life’

Sunday night, when Natalie Portman accepted her Oscar, the radiantly pregnant actress concluded her acceptance speech by thanking “my beautiful love,” dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, for giving her the “most important role of my life.” As Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com reports, Portman’s maternal joy rankled some viewers. Lizzie Skurnick Tweeted: Like, my garbageman could give you your greatest […]

Charlie Sheen, Victim

Last week, Charlie Sheen got himself denounced by the Anti-Defamation League after a radio interview in which he mocked Two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre as “Chaim Levine” (for the record, Lorre’s birth name is Charles Levine). Not surprisingly, CBS responded by canceling the rest of the show’s season. Evidently unsatisfied with partial […]

Malkin Pimp-Slaps Weigel

MARION, Ohio — My buddy Dave Weigel has got arrogance like Rosie O’Donnell’s got double chins. His smart-ass attitude already cost Dave a job at the Washington Post (as he has admitted), but his excessive arrogance still gets the best of him, and so today Dave decided to do something extraordinarily stupid: Point his snark at […]

Palin, Newt, Huck and Cain, Oh My!

Rounding up some 2012 news: Both Doug Brady at Conservatives for Palin and Josh Painter at Texas for Palin liked my reaction to “worthless two-faced backstabbing crapweasel” Frank Bailey. What Bailey has done — trying to cash in with a “tell all” book damaging to his former employer — is a breach of a fundamental […]

Cashing In

OK, so you get hired to do a job and, when the job’s over, you try to hustle a buck by stabbing your former employer in the back. Explain to me why anyone should ever trust you. Or better yet, explain to me why anyone should ever do anything except spit on the ground when […]

URGENT BREAKING NEWS!

Guess who’s pregnant? Alyssa Milano is going to be a mom! The actress, 38, and her husband Dave Bugliari, 32, are expecting their first child, Milano’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. “They’re just over the moon,” says a friend of the “Who’s The Boss” and “Charmed” alum, who’s due in early fall. “They are so […]

Michael Moore: Own a Gun? Racist!

“There’s a reason why we want to own these guns. . . . The vast majority of these guns are owned by people who live in safe parts of town, or mostly in suburbs and rural areas, places where there are very few murders. . . . Why do you have a gun? What are […]

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