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From The Room: 2008: Not So Great
December 31, 2008 - George Bush isn't the only one who's been a lame duck for the last couple of months of 2008. I have, too. I think all Americans have been lame ducks. We've been in limbo. We've been waiting to see how the financial crisis will be resolved...
From The Room: Year of the Sex Scandal
December 31, 2008 - What a year 2008 has been! A lot of people say this is the Year of the Recession or the Year of the Election, but I would like to nominate 2008 as the Year of the Sex Scandal. What is going on here? This year, John Edwards cheated on his...Filed under: sex scandal, sex, political sex scandals, 2008, 2008 sex scandals, John Edwards, Jim McGreevey, Barbara Walters
From The Room: The Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2008
December 30, 2008 - Okay. Just so you know: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of the Year are as different from the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of the Year as a tarantula infested banana tree is from a small paper bag of locking quarter- inch steel washers painted blue. Other stuff might...Filed under: 2008, end of year wrap up, 2009, primaries, Mike Huckabee, Rod Blagojevich, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Prop 8
From The Room: The Year that Time Forgot: 2008
December 30, 2008 - The jokes was on us in 2008, making us all proverbial straight men, reacting to the appalling developments in the harrowing comedy that has become the 21st century. Some years are so bad you have to bury them, the worse the year, the deeper the hole. 2008 should be buried...Filed under: 2008, end of year wrap up, 2009, Madonna, bad movies, Jeremy Piven, Sarah Palin, beef wellington
From The Room: The Could've-Been Best Of 2008
December 17, 2008 - Each year, best-of lists pass over countless hypotheticals in favor of people, events and things that actually happened. Which is so uncool and maybe even grounds for a lawsuit in which parallel reality wins a staggering sum that I can easily steal, because who from the universe of never...
John McCain will turn this war around right now if you don't shut up
March 26, 2008 - Old man McCain has just returned from Iraq and he doesn't want to hear it, alright? A few days after confusing Sunnis and Shiites and just a day 61 Iraqis were killed in bombings, McCain says everything's going s...
Stop waiting by the phone for Al Gore to call!
March 25, 2008 - U.S. Representative and superdelegate Tim Mahoney suggested in an interview last week that if the Clinton/Obama race is still undecided as of the Democratic Convention, Al Gore could be nominated as the tie...
From The Room: The Oscars: There Will Be Liveblogging
February 24, 2008 - Click the 'bio' link for information about our livebloggers. 7:10p Brad Taylor Negron: Hello....I am at the Beverly Hilton Jim David: I'm currently under Tilda Swinton's dress. DISGRASIAN: What's it like in there? Jim David: I have my own video monitor. Brad Taylor Negron: Ruby...
23/6 Video: Christmas '07
February 11, 2008 - Christmas. It's a time for family, for joy, for reflection, for prayer, and most importantly, for political pandering. Mike Huckabee said there were no overt Christian symbols in this political ad that aired last winter, but we beg to differ. Take a look and judge for yourself...Totally conservative anti-McCain suspends presidential bid
February 7, 2008 - In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in the conservative city of Washington, DC, conservative Mitt Romney conservatively announced he would suspend his conservative campaign for president. With John McCain's delegate lead following Super Tuesday, Romney would have had to win f...
From The Room: Liveblogging the State of the Union
January 28, 2008 - 9:01 They're still walking in...shouldn't it be starting? 9:02 Uh, oh--according to CNN it will take the President a few minutes to walk in: does he have a Tom Brady boot that we don't know about? 9:05 Phew, no boot. 9:06...Pat Robertson talks to God,
God pretends to see someone more interesting across the room
January 7, 2008 - Pat Robertson, the Christian televangelist and miracle energy drink entrepreneur, has made an annual tradition of predicting what the new year will bring. Correction: Robertson has made an annual tradition of simply reporting what God tells...
From The Room: The New TV Season (or, Could I be any Shallower?)
January 7, 2008 - While most bloggers have been consumed with the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire debates, I, Larry Amoros, the man with the depth of a skillet, have not. I am focused on something of far more importance to the lives of average Americans--TV Guide's 2008 Preview Issue. The Guide...Filed under: 2008, Television
I remember Iowa: the caucus in pictures
January 3, 2008 - On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of voters braved freezing temperatures to make their voices heard. Reporter-at-large Kevin Bleyer stuck his lens where the sun don't shine—Des Moines—to bring you all the action from the Iowa caucus...
From The Room: On the Water Park
January 3, 2008 - ON THE WATER PARK I spent New Year's Eve at a water park in the Wisconsin Dells. ...Let's ignore everything that's wrong with the above sentence and ponder these questions about the Great American Water Park: IS SKI...Filed under: 2008
