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Tweaking the lines your parents used when they grounded you, Condoleezza Rice claims that life is not "a popularity contest," and that someday, people will "start to thank this president for what he's done." More »
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Another day, another story about the Army's ever-expanding signing bonuses. Enlist right now, and you can get $40,000 toward a home or starting a business! Maybe nobody told them the cool way to get paid these days is in Euros? "In marketing terms, the Army's core product — military service — is a tough sell right now," the recruitment effort's leader Col. Sterling, who is himself retiring from the Army next year, tells the Wall Street Journal, in a story that jokes that the new slogan should be "Buy All That You Can Buy." And boy is that an understatement — the four-star general who led us into the war on the first place is now BFFs with Pelosi! So naturally, there's a lot of discussion of whether appealing to consumerism and greed is the best way to find the right soldiers, because after all isn't that how Blackwater happened, and also, how Real World contestants became so awful. But here's the amazing part: the younger generation is apparently not money-motivated enough to respond, so the Army is trying to convince parents and teachers to make them so. More »
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It's that time of year, so let's give thanks to Bonnie Fuller. She's the editorial genius who brought us Us Weekly in its current incarnation and now brings us Star. Without her, we would arguably have no a menagerie of well-styled, wealthy people with flexible workweeks to pointlessly follow in the pages of US and Star. Why'd she bestow upon America this "gift" in the first place? We'd always figured, you know, "money." But last week she wrote about how the relentless coverage of Britney and Angelina's questionable parenting choices actually serves a useful societal purpose: it makes merely neglectful parents feel a lot better! And just in time for the holidays, she offers this salve to people who merely loathe getting together with your families: At least you're not Brangelina! More »
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