Boehner: "At one point several weeks ago... the president said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.' "

"They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system." Boehner's repeated response to that was: "Clearly we have ...

The m-word!

"You know, everybody knows what the N-word is. We don't say the N-word. We refer to that word as the N-word. I had never heard of t...

"The Lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants..."

"ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book, 'All up in my snatch.'"

Oh, well ... it would actually be an appropriate name for the book.

"We are all the other now."

A paradoxical iteration of the "We are all X (now)" trope , which I'm noticing just now, on a morning when I happened already ...

"He will bring happiness in a pipe/He'll ride away on his silver bike/And apart from that he'll be so kind/In consenting to blow your mind..."

"Fat Angel," by Donovan (who wrote it) or The Jefferson Airplane ( live , with oil-based light show) and even Orange Alabaster Mu...

Biden: "As they say in my business, I'm going to give you the whole load today..."

Top Comments at YouTube: Now he's plagiarizing from porno scripts?? And: He learned that saying hanging around with Bill Clinton Based...

Her blog's "title begins with a common vulgar interjection" and her book "goes by the same name as the blog and concludes with the words 'I’m in My Twenties'..."

How the NYT refers to Emma Koenig's "FUCK! I'm in my twenties." The NYT article fusses (inanely) over "fuck." W...

"[W]ith the recent passing of Ernest Borgnine (Marty, 1961) and now Celeste Holm (Gentleman's Agreement, 1947) today..."

"... who is now the longest-ago Oscar winner in each of the five major categories who's still living?" For Best Actress, it ha...

"I enjoy your ideas and content, but mostly avoid your blog because of the juvenile vulgarity that appears all over it."

Email from a guy who signs his name with Ph.D. after it, quoting somebody somewhere who wrote "Sorry, I have to call BS on this" a...

Michael Bloomberg gives a speech and then mutters "Who Wrote This Shit?"

It's fine with me, but why is he presiding over a hot-dog-eating contest? Of all politicians, he's the one I most associate with co...

Prof. Stone says it's "depressing" that the Court's "fleeting expletives" opinion repeatedly used "f***" and "s***"...

... instead of "fuck" and "shit." In 1971, when the Court held in Cohen v. California that a state could not constitut...

"You're disarming yourself in an important struggle if you can't produce a fucking sonnet."

Asserted Christopher Hitchens in an interview in 2010 , which I'm reading a propos of a discussion we're having about the value of t...

Crackdown on blog commenting.

In China: The moves are among the most dramatic censorship efforts undertaken by Beijing since the rise over the past two years of the popul...

Bristol Palin is waiting for Obama's phone call.

Given that he called Sandra Fluke, she says she's "a little surprised my phone hasn’t rung": Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher...

Bill Maher to Rush Limbaugh: "You know what, Rush, when you can stand up in front of an audience of 3,000 people all the time like I do..."

I've already blogged about what Bill Maher said on his show last night about Rush Limbaugh, so forgive me if you've already had eno...

What will happen to all the left-wing comedians after all the attention to Limbaugh's "slut" controversy?

Here 's Greta Van Susteren kicking up a storm about Louis C.K. being the headliner at the Radio and Television Correspondents Associatio...

"America secretly loves whipping itself up into a frenzy over this sort of thing, but it wasn't just the rightwing press expressing outrage..."

"... even Pitchfork was in on the act. 'In the few bars Madonna was kind enough to grant her during the biggest television event of...

"It's all Gladys' fault! She's sending me straight to hell!"

Millie Jackson sounded too much like Gladys Knight and needed to distinguish herself. Jackson's first hit song, a 1973 cover of "(I...

"Santorum: 'Science Should Get Out Of Politics.'"

That's the headline at Talking Points Memo — a twist on the conventional statement Religion Should Get Out of Politics . But what did S...