The full list of chefs participating in the U.S. Department of State's new Diplomatic Culinary Partnership initiative was announced a few days ago to much media fanfare. To be clear, I think it's fantastic that the State Department has partnered with the James Beard Foundation and created a roster o ... More >>
We thought we had heard it all after nut job Pastor Sean Harris came out (!) and publicly told parents to beat the gay out of their kids. But then today we caught wind of this insane video of a woman at a Lincoln, Nebraska City Council hearing where the city officials were debating a LGBT protection ... More >>
I'll tell you what a cesspool is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will arrive in San Francisco Wednesday to talk with their Australian counterparts over a proposed base-sharing agreement.According to a Monday U.S. State Department bulletin:Secretary Clinton ... More >>
Playing favorites?Environmental groups are going after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, worried that she's allowing Washington lobbyists close to her get away with building a massive oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.Friends of the Earth, a nonprofit with offices in Washington, D.C. and San Fr ... More >>
So much for newspapers being the record of history. A mega-Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung in New York took the iconic Osama bin Laden raid Situation Room photo and edited the most powerful woman at the White House, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Oy vey.The photo was taken with President ... More >>
How Michelle Obama's wardrobe is shaping...politicsThere's no doubt Michelle Obama is the most avid fashionista of any First Lady we've seen in recent history. But how is she influencing your style?Well, come next Saturday, March 12, former Harper's Bazaar editor-in-chief Kate Betts will be holdi ... More >>
Bad dog! Homophobic! The Week in GayDid you miss me? I spent the last week in Buffalo, N.Y., visiting family and NOT getting groped by anyone at any of the four airports I visited. Granted, I had to pass inspection at only two of the four airports, but I kept an open mind about being fondled and ... More >>
The developments in the ongoing saga that is Don't Ask Don't Tell - the ban on gays in the military - occurred faster than the depletion of Meg Whitman's bank balance this week.On Monday, Judge Virginia Philips heard from both sides on her decision from a week ago that DADT was unconstitutional ... More >>
Don't worry Kamala. Tyra still loves you. While attorney general candidate Kamala Harris spent the past three weeks denouncing her opponent Steve Cooley for accepting tainted campaign donations, it turns out her campaign kitty contained $1,250 from ex-Democratic moneyman Norman Hsu -- now serving ... More >>
Our favorite food blog posts of the day: Staying regular: How about a long, cool drink of dietary fiber? Nothing like getting hammered and scrubbing your colon. Cheers to The Ethicurean for showing us how. Commander-in-chickpea: Ever wonder what Obama and Hilary Clinton would look like sculpted en ... More >>
Now that Barack Obama has crossed the non-WASP-in-the-White House threshold, which other minority groups might get to produce a president? Mark Oppenheimer explores the question on Slate.com.. Bemusingly, Slate.com readers quickly called Oppenheimer out on his own racial insensitivity because ... More >>
Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.
Controversial docudrama imagines a post-Bush scenario
How some ladies from S.F. will harass Hillary Clinton into being the tipping point against the Iraq War
Obscure landmarks to love
Infiltrator joins the Young Republicans to experience the blue suits, big hair, and free beer of the Republican state convention
A biased documentary exposes the vicious attempt to bring down Clinton
Baywatch
The inside dope on Hillary's private affair
American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?
