Late Night Sexual Harrassment
Nell Scovell, one of a handful of women who has ever worked as a comedy writer for David Letterman -- or any of the late night comic talk shows -- contends that an atmosphere of sexual harassment routinely exists on those shows: Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let’s address the pertinent questions. Did Dave hit on me? No. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 28, 2009 09:00
OTB Latenight – John Cleese
In honour of John Cleese's 70th birthday, here's something completely different:Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 27, 2009 22:01
Caption Contest Winners
The Baracky Horror Picture Show Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (H/T Drudgereport) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: floyd - Looks like we fluxed up again! Second: Eric Florack - Unexplained were the reports that a voice was heard from the clouds, saying "The choice is made! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, The Traveler has come!" Third: physics ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 26, 2009 21:09
Obama Ties Bush on Golf
Interesting-if-true fact from Patrick Gavin: President Obama has already played as many rounds of golf after nine months in office as President George W. Bush did in eight years. President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. CBS' Mark Knoller — ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 26, 2009 14:54
Is Barack Obama Too Manly?
Mark Liebowitz had a piece for NYT over the weekend titled "Man’s World at White House? No Harm, No Foul, Aides Say." At first blush, it reads like some feminists are genuinely concerned about a male-dominated culture in the West Wing. After awhile, however, one begins to suspect it's a PR exercise to make President Obama seem more ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 26, 2009 07:54
Caption Contest
Time for the Monday OTB Caption ContestTM REUTERS/Natalie Behring (UNITED STATES ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) Winners will be announced Thursday PMPosted in Outside The Beltway on October 26, 2009 06:16
OTB Latenight – Sister Hazel
Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 25, 2009 21:30
OTB Caption JamTM
Weekend Caption Jam Linkfest. . . Rodney has made a shocking discovery. Wizbang is in the spin cycle. Wyatt Earp has his rubber ducky. Cowboy Blob is taking a hands off approach. RT's Ponderings is passing on sage advice. Blonde Sagacity thinks the three of them will be very ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 24, 2009 12:48
OTB Latenight – Linda Ronstadt
Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 23, 2009 21:30
Caption Contest Winners
The Nineveh Bar and Grill Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: yetanotherjohn - A pessimist would say the bar is half flooded, an optimist says the bar is open. Second: mpw280 - Team Obama and how they would have handled Katrina. Third: Maggie Mama - Not just the beer labels are turning ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 22, 2009 19:22
Predator vs. Terminator
This xkcd comic is indeed "More Accurate." via Andrew ExumPosted in Outside The Beltway on October 22, 2009 14:16
College Sports Scandal Blame Games
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here about the fact that those who enable cheating never seem to get much attention: Everybody notices the crooked defiant coach, the hapless sputtering president, the anonymous guys on the academic support staff who sit next ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 22, 2009 12:36
Olympia Snowe is Impregnable
Andrew Sullivan says Olympia Snowe can do pretty much whatever she wants, "Because she has more Democratic support in her state than Republican, and the combination makes her impregnable." She's 62 years old, for goodness sakes. Surely, if she were planning to have children, she'd have done so by now.Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 22, 2009 11:32
Caption Contest
Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM (H/T Drudgereport) Winners will be announced Monday PMPosted in Outside The Beltway on October 22, 2009 06:12
Limbaugh: Reporter Should Kill Himself
Rush Limbaugh has gotten everyone from Media Matters to The Guardian to Andrew Sullivan to Paul Krugman to Raw Story to FireDogLake up in arms because he allegedly suggested that a NYT reporter kill himself. Except that, to anyone familiar with either Limbaugh or the conventions of American English, it's rather obvious he was illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Here's the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 21, 2009 10:30
