Just when we thought Paula Abdul had cleaned up her act and achieved some sort of lucidity this season, the American Idol judge returned to her peculiar ways earlier this week. Case in point? On Tuesday night’s episode, she threw a girl-on-girl tantrum. Twice!

This week Cage and Crandall conduct the 101 in part 4 of Gender and Sexuality. Which came first the genital or the gender? — GM

On Thursday, President Obama bashed the $18.4 billion in bank executive bonuses that were proffered in 2008 as taxpayers bailed said banks out of the toilet.

Last night I had the pleasure of attending Jasper James’ album release party for Vibrator at a club in New York City’s meatpacking district. Walking west on West 27th Street, it was a sight I had never experienced before, not being a regular to the meatpacking club scene.

What’s a Republican man to do in the face of a real humanitarian and economic crisis? Kick the women and children overboard!

Queen Latifah is coming out in 2010! Ooops, I meant to say she’s coming out with a new book in 2010. It’s an “inspirational” piece, apparently the second of her career. The first was titled, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman. She has not yet chosen a title for the second. How about What [...]

Marie-Antoinette’s been dead for 215 years but her legend as spendthrift fashionista indifferent to peasants’ misery lives on in metaphor for the current crop of bloated, corrupt, fuck-you-I-earned-this-over-the-top-bonus-because-well-
because-I-say-I-did financiers who see nothing amiss in their million-dollar office remodel being paid for by homeless taxpayers.

I apologize for this nauseating news coverage. (I thought we finished this topic yesterday… apparently not.) Last night on Hardball, former Republican Congressman Dick Armey, while trying to insult Salon’s Joan Walsh, actually promises to spare her from a fate worse than hell.

Diana: Iceland is getting a dyke prime minister. Want to move there with me?
Grace: Sounds good. Except they are bankrupt.
Diana: So are we. And they made the Sugarcubes and, subsequently, Bjork.

Warning: Kinetically charged mobile phone batteries may encourage more mall power-walking.

I’m so riled up over the recalcitrant shenanigans by the Republicans on this stimulus package that I could spit… on John Boehner’s shoe. They lost by such huge margins in the past two elections, yet they have the nerve to keep professing that they know what the people want.

At a conference that the two former Presidents attended recently, George H.W. Bush totally degrades women in an astonishing “joke” only a douche bag would find funny. Then Bill Clinton, in his own navel-gazing, laments the fact that he can’t get away with jokes like that. There are so many things wrong with this I [...]

The following plot summary for The Farm (the Alice Pieszecki spin-off show) can be found on IMDB.com:

It always comes when you least expect it. You could be sleeping comfortably in your home or RV. You could be tending to your child’s needs at a bargain movie matinée. You could be in a lovely restaurant, enjoying a lovely dinner under the camouflage of straight friends, when suddenly it comes crashing out of [...]

Watching the news these days I pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. Is the Bush/Cheney government really gone? President Obama conducted his first official interview since taking office with Dubai based al-Arabiya TV.