The tenth anniversary of the war in Iraq has come and gone. For those of us who always thought that the Bush Administration lied us into a fraudulent war, which they then conducted with stunning and disastrous incompetence (and of course lied about all of that as well), we are, in political terms, remarkably “fortunate”…
Friends don’t let friends write for GQ
Buzz Bissinger has 71 leather jackets and no sense, a fact amply on display in this post making the rounds on the web. Bissinger, fifty-five actin’ fifty-five, demonstrates why old men should be illegal.
Well, you know, New Jersey
Headline in Politico: “New Jersey poll: Chris Christie weight not an issue.” If the home of Tony Soprano won’t elect a fat guy, who will?
Sabine Trio— “Ask Me Now,” Part 3
Line o’ the Day
“Though it may fade with time as he re-establishes his identity and Romney disappears, Ryan still has the stink of 2012 on him.”—Politico’s Jonathan Martin, explaining why Paulie doesn’t seem to be generating a lot of 2016 chatter.
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Sure accounting loves ‘em. Accounting don’t have to wind ‘em.” “Kid just doesn’t have much of a mainspring.” “Now, Smythe here, you don’t have to wind him more than twice a month. That’s because every one of our employees is unique. And that also happens to be the first rule of Personnel…
Give us your best “Who gives a shit I’m still fucking gorgeous” pose
New York magazine furnishes Lindsay Lohan’s latest and greatest mug shot, this one taken in Santa Monica rather than New York—something about reckless driving and lying to the police, I think, rather than allegedly punching out a blonde psychic, which, I think, is something a lot of us would like to do.
Why it would not entirely surprise me if the New York Times were suddenly to be consumed by the sulfurous flames of the Fiery Pit
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Bobby Few and Avram Fefer—“Ask Me Now,” Part 2
Too Late!
The Daily Beast’s Daniel Klaidman reports that the Obama Administration is giving the military exclusive control of drone murders, instead of sharing with the CIA. Quoting one of several faceless and ballless sources, Dan comes up with the following: “Barack Obama has got to be concerned about his legacy,” says one former adviser. “He doesn’t…