law school ninja

Wait. Is it Parasailin’ or Sarah Palin? I’m so confused. You know who I’m talking about, right? That mavericky mom who can see Russia from her backyard? Yeah, that one. Okay, anyway. She “wrote” a “book.” I think they finally settled on the title Glowing Rouge or something like that. Let’s review. Remember, whilst apparently [...]

There were a lot of really good pieces this week regarding everybody’s favorite almost-ex-governor, Sarah Palin, written by much better wordsmiths than I. From the Secular Right blog, a post on Right Wing Identity Politics Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate explains how Sarah Palin was Lost in Translation At Reason magazine’s online site, Cathy Young [...]

It’s a bad year to be a celebrity; they seem to be dropping like flies. In case you didn’t crawl out from under your rock in the last week or so, Michael Jackson’s memorial service was held today in Los Angeles. I didn’t watch any of it, but my Twitter stream was packed full of [...]

Regardless of your political leanings, if you’re a woman or you’re sympathetic to women’s efforts to advance on the political stage, you should be royally pissed off at Sarah Palin. Earlier today, in a hastily assembled, rambling, disjointed, and sometimes contradictory press conference, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that not only does she not plan [...]

In Republican Valley, there’s a whole lot of jockeying going on in an effort to gain control over the party in time for the midterm elections of 2010 and then the presidential election in 2012. Currently Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and Eric Cantor are on a “listening tour” (which, oddly enough, consists mostly of talking). [...]

Tonight I watched this poor schmuck Levi Johnston on Larry King. Hey, there was nothing else on, okay? For your reading pleasure, I have compiled my offensive, cynical, and jaded thoughts below. Levi totally needs to be on either some Prozac or Wellbutrin or something, maybe both. This guy has the flattest affect of anybody [...]