President James Polk, the last POTUS to sport a mullet

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor

The 11th President, James Polk, presided over the Mexican-American War, which ended with the US annexing most of the southwest.  He also threatened to go to war with Britain (who still hadn't learned their lesson) over who owned the Oregon Country, which included Washington State.  When he ran for office, he vowed to serve only one turn, and did not run for re-election.  Perhaps most importantly, he was the President with the most bodacious mullet.

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Heading into tonight's Presidential Debate, BHO snags the coveted Honey Boo Boo endorsement

By Mona Goldwater, Celebrity Politics Editor

From Politico:  "The reality star known as Honey Boo Boo has named her pick for president.

'Barack Obama,' seven-year-old Alana Thompson announced on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

"To be fair, Thompson said that she didn’t know who Mitt Romney was. And she only chose Obama after learning that Romney snubbed her in a recent interview.

"Kimmel explained, 'They asked Mitt Romney if he preferred Snooki or Honey Boo Boo. And do you know what he said? He said he preferred Snooki.'"

Now that he has won the highly-coveted Honey Boo Boo endorsement, we are confident BHO will charge into the debate tonight with a fire in his belly.  And like it or not, with this in his pocket, he is going to win.

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More strange Halloween Costumes

By Jack Brummet 

These are probably not as twisted, but every bit as amusing, as our earlier posts on Halloween costumes:

Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 1
Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 2

Ginger Snap Army

Merbaby

Wraps

The Pizza Guy

Nature Gal

Coors Light Gladiator

Octomom

Creepy

The Popemobile

Zombie Ronald McDonald

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Faces No. 319 - Partials

By Jack Brummet

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Faces No. 320 - Eastern Europe

By Jack Brummet

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Heart

By Jack Brummet

[hand drawn, scanned, digitized, and fiddled with]

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Lefty Wilbury a/k/a Roy Orbison & The Traveling Wilbury's perform "Not Alone Anymore"

By Jack Brummet, Rock Editor

Roy had one of the great voices in music. In the last couple years of his life, had an amazing resurgence/comeback, in part by hooking up with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, and the great performer and producer Jeff Lynne (whom Roy called his best producer ever). This song, recorded in his last year on earth (age 52), is one of his best ever. He transcended devastating tragedies in his personal life and soldiered on to make some of his best music ever. I still miss this guy.




While we're here, here is a video of Handle Me With Care, which is a great song in itself, but all the more memorable to see all these legends making serious music together.

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New York Post says Ryan was schooled by Joe Biden

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor


Our reader, Jeff Clinton, passed along this headline from this morning's New York Post.  He wrote: "Even Murdoch rags can’t spin this one..."

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Twisted Halloween costumes, Part 2

A continuation of Twisted Halloween Costumes.  Click here to see the first post.

The Car

Cerebrus?

Physician

Father Muldoon

Sister Mary

Summer Beach Gear

WTC - Still too soon?

Not a costume, maybe, but a very strange tableau

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Twisted Halloween Costumes, Part 1

We've posted a couple of these before, around Halloween.  Our criteria is mainly that the costume needs to be weird.  We did not include the many costumes that you would consider cute, or dressed up animals, and, believe or not, we left out most of the really sick costumes, or costumes where you might say "it's too soon!" These were collected from our readers, and from various outposts of the internet.

Little Hitler

Cartman's Hitler Costume

Illegal Alien

Twisted Family Costume(s)

The Tooth Fairy

Kind Of A Katamari Babies Costume

Goldilocks

Bomber

Hawaii's Favorite

Priapic Frog

Naughty Bits

Man-sheep

Caged

Man-horse/Centaur

Birth

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VP Debate night: Fuel for the Romney surge, or, a chance to overcome Democratic inertia and hand-wringing?

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor

Tonight. Who knew this debate would blow up in importance like it has, with the potential to add fuel to Romney's surge or overcome the Democratic inertia and hand-wringing.

We have a lot of faith in Joe Biden, although, sure, in his last debate, he had a cream-puff lobbed his way (e.g., Sarah Palin v. Joe Biden VP Debate 2008). Go Joe!

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ATIT Reheated (Four years ago today) Buyer's remorse:::::::::McCain campaign calls Sarah a whack job:::::Her team fires back::::::::::Palin goes rogue::::::Let the finger pointing begin!

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor

You think this is a strange political campaign cycle?  Think back.  Four years ago today, we published this article. 


The wheels have long since fallen off the McPalin bandwagon, and the finger pointing has begun. In public. The McCain camp clearly has a case of buyer's remorse, and the Palin wing feels like they have been kept under wraps and aggressively over-managed.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, writes about a “demoralized” McCain campaign: “Palin is going to be the most vivid chapter of the McCain campaign's post-mortem. … Those loyal to McCain believe they have been unfairly blamed for over-handling Palin. They say they did the best they could with what they got.”

Anonymous McCain campaign leakers have now called Governor Palin a “diva," and even “a whack job.”

George Stephanpolous also wrote: "The Alaska governor herself has been pushing out on her own against McCain's handlers. In recent days she has been speaking her own mind about what she thought of McCain's strategy in Michigan, and what she thought of his decision not to go after Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "

From Atlantic Magazine: "There's a faction within the McCain campaign has begun to whisper about Gov. Sarah Palin to reporters. The faction includes staff members and advisers who consult with staff members. It does not seem to include any members of the senior staff, although the definition of the senior staff here is a bit elastic. This faction has come to believe that Palin, perhaps unwittingly, subconsciously or otherwise, has begun to play Sen. McCain off of the base, consistently and deliberately departed from the campaign's message of the day in ways that damage McCain."



Politico.com reports: "'She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,' said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to 'go rogue' in some of her public pronouncements and decisions. 'I think she'd like to go more rogue,' he said … 'These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves,' a McCain insider said, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign. Palin's partisans blame Wallace, in particular, for Palin's avoiding of the media for days and then giving a high-stakes interview to CBS News' Katie Couric, the sometimes painful content of which the campaign allowed to be parceled out over a week."

The New York Post said: "Things have gotten so tense between Palin and her traveling staff, an insider said, that she's overruling their advice — which was evident last week when she ignored GOP aides piling into waiting cars at a Colorado event and strolled over to the press corps for an impromptu talk."

From the Cable News Network web site: "'She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,' said [a] McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

UPI reported yesterday that "At a Tampa rally yesterday, Palin blasted the RNC for buying her a $150,000 wardrobe, calling it "ridiculous." Unsurprisingly, these were not the remarks that were sent to her in the morning by the McCain campaign.

New York magazine's Daily Intel column online reported that "The idea of Palin as running mate was sprung on McCain at the very last minute by his two strong-willed advisers, Fred Davis and Steve Schmidt. This weekend's New York Times Magazine story reveals just how short a time period it was between when Davis and Schmidt unilaterally presented their case and when the announcement was made by McCain (five days). According to the story, McCain made up his own mind, but in retrospect he may regret the timing and spin."

Whew!

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