Rouged individualism.

With all this talk of rugged individualism and emphasis on women at the conventions, I offer my coinage: rouged individualism . My Google se...

"Americans had the highest per capita income in the civilized world, paid the lowest taxes—and were determined to keep it that way."

In 1776. Men wore clothes that were as colorful as the ladies' garb. One male fashion plate in New York ordered a suit of "superfin...

Protesters at the Capitol rally against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.

It was a constrained and organized media event, with the sign-holders arrayed on the steps around the "Forward!" statue and the sp...

"My girls would wear Chanel, maybe a little black dress... They were very elegant."

"A lot of guys who stay at the hotels go down to the bar and they'll have a few drinks with a pretty girl. At some point, she hits ...

Lipstick...

... tattoo.

We enjoyed the tasty new blood that was Sarah Palin's, but now her blood is just as vile as the old blood we were drinking.

Everybody at Arianna Huffington's blood-swilling party is sick of Sarah Palin now, says the hostess , reapplying her lipstick. Photo by ...

"The Intent was to paint a Picture of Mrs. Palin in the Mind of the Audience as a Sow. Such a crude Jape..."

After my weekend jaunt to Hilton Head Island, I've got so many unread comments to review for spam and other delete-able things. I enjoy ...

"If you were really savvy, you'd 'manipulate' the media into a stampede of lurid drivel deriding her as a Stepford wife and a dominatrix..."

"... comparing her to Islamic fundamentalists, Pontius Pilate and porn stars, and dismissing her as a dysfunctional brood mare who can...

The Lipstick Coffeehouse.

Here's a place where you can talk about All Things Palin -- the Charlie Gibson interview ... whatever.

"'It’s still a pig,' he said to loud applause," says Jeff Zeleny of the NYT, featuring Obama's defense of the Lipsticked Pig remark.

Here. But the thing is I know that the crowd laughed -- and Obama paused to encourage the crowd to laugh -- after he said "You can pu...

And the McCain campaign is not giving Obama a pass on the Lipsticked Pig remark.

(Via HotAir .) I'm surprised the campaign is forthrightly using this material, and it's interesting to see how they've chosen to...

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink."

Said Obama , and speaking of stink, it's raised quite a stink . Now, I didn't blog this yesterday, because frankly, I considered it ...

"I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted," said the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz.

"Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a...

"It’s like trying to claim that John Hawkins is unfairly labeled a 'right wing news blogger' ..."

"... and then providing a link to his site, which is called RIGHT WING NEWS ." Rachel Lucas cracks me up as she lashes into a lam...

"The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere."

Roy Edroso puts a lot of work into this thing , and it would have hurt my feelings if he'd left me out. So don't cry for me. And, ch...

"For those of you who carry just a wallet, how the heck do you do it?"

Dr. Helen got sick of carrying a purse , but finds it hard to edit down to just a wallet. She asks for advice. I was a staunch purse-avoider...

"When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood."

Said Rindy Sam , who put a lipstick stain on an all-white Cy Twombly painting. Encouraging art vandals everywhere, the French judge let her...

HDTV and the female candidate.

My son Christopher writes that he watched last night's debate on high definition TV, and: Hillary Clinton's lipstick looked differen...

"American Idol" -- singing Bon Jovi.

We're told that Bon Jovi is one of the best rock bands in history, which just seems so ridiculous, but then it turns out these songs are...

"I'm so not sexy."

Says Melinda Doolittle, responding to Jennifer Lopez, who's encouraging her to reveal her sexuality on this week's "American Id...