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Gaiety! Bacchanalia! Food shortages! The
White House Correspondents Dinner happened over the weekend. "One of the most hideous events I've ever been to,"
decreed Ruper Everett (of the cinematic gem
The Next-Best Thing. Megan went. So did Heidi and Spencer and
Pete Wentz. Megan recognized
Donatella Versace, but not
Ashlee Simpson. Lauren Conrad grew "awesome bangs."
Glamocracy reigned, so to speak, and not just in Washington; I went to a lovely wedding! Prince performed at Coachella! And the rest of the world continued to fast and fester under the weight of wrongheaded economic policies that systematically placed risk of reckless neocons and Wall Street plutocrats on the shoulders of taxpayers, undermining capitalism's every last virtue and then some. That and
Jeremiah Wright speaks,
Bill Clinton's Obama hate is deconstructed, a brief discussion of the Laffer Curve, after the jump.
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