The poet is Richard Blanco, the verb "tackles" comes from Politico , and the quote within the quote is in the Presidential Inaugur...
"I got my head above water again and this time I was swearing and saying get this thing off me. I was just screaming for help. I couldn...
... in France. Prof Richard Sharpe, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "Something in our modern lifestyle, diet or environment lik...
Of all the pro-Obama reframing I've read in the press, this may be the most ridiculous. It's Sarah Kaufman — WaPo's Pulitzer Pri...
... or so he said, laughing, when asked how he felt when Obama called his dad a liar. "But you know you can’t do that because, well, f...
The first 10 of the top 100 boys' names for 2012, from Nameberry , which is "geared to non-traditional but deeply-rooted boys' ...
Proclaimed Rush Limbaugh the other day. They don't like the use of force unless it's for their own ends. They love the military whe...
Rush Limbaugh riffed on the new Newsweek cover today: Calling Romney a wimp is aimed at suppressing the white blue-collar vote . Blue-colla...
Matt McQuinn, 27, Jonathan Blunk, 26, and Alex Teves, 24 — each died protecting a woman in the Aurora theater massacre. That is, out of 12 ...
The NYT asks a bunch of people, including Natasha Scripture, who says : Come to think of it, I haven’t met a manly man in quite some time. M...
President Obama, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, yesterday. The "I've got nothing else to run for" is a response to a sad "oh...
The Atlantic has a long article with a title I feel like I've seen a hundred times: "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All." It...
"When men stop questioning their own gender conditioning, it keeps them stuck in an immature stage of development that Sociologist Mich...
Video found after a search for "making women nod" — which I knew was a longstanding Bill Maher theme — which I got the idea to do ...
"... and saying, 'Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,' you get o...
Via EDH, in the comments to "Romney, the man who says 'marvelous,'" where we are talking about the extent to which it is ...
Obama mocked Romney this way: "He said that he's 'very supportive' of this new budget, and he even called it 'marvelous...
"... for people who demand subsidies without offering any reasons beyond the fact that they’d prefer to be subsidized. In other words,...
Robert Stacy McCain, I'm looking at you. Rush Limbaugh has apologized, but McCain bullies on : Rather belatedly, we are becoming aware t...
Says David Rakoff — one of my 2 favorite audiobook writer-readers — to Dave Hill — a comedian I'd never heard of — at the end of this am...
