Sunday Roundup

This was not a good week for Bank of America (brother can you spare $34 billion?); Manny Ramirez (fertility drugs? Who does he think he is -- Octomom?); Miss California USA Carrie Prejean (not just leaked topless pics, but leaked pre-implant topless pics!); Jack McCollough's nose (ground zero for Kiefer Sutherland's head); and John Edwards (Rielle wants a paternity test, the Feds are investigating his campaign spending, and Elizabeth isn't sure she still loves him). This week also brought us the Hannity-fueled Condiment-gate (the lamest political food fight since freedom fries), and Pat Robertson claiming that legalizing gay marriage will lead to the sanctioning of bestiality, child molestation, and pedophilia. Enjoyed with a spicy French mustard, no doubt. At least things end on an upbeat note: a very happy Mother's Day to all my fellow HuffPost moms. And happy birthday to HuffPost, which turned four years old yesterday!

Comments

[TankerRat]

07:54 AM on 05/11/2009

God Bless Arianna and keep up the good fight.

[gemstone1000]

11:52 PM on 05/10/2009

Congratulations on the 4-year anniversary of HuffPost . It seems like yesterday! Arianna, you're the greatest.

[snoopbuzz]

10:38 PM on 05/10/2009

Yes, a happy anniversary to the post. I would also like to say that I enjoyed your interview topic and discussion on morning joe earlier last week. I thought you did a splendid job.

[csavage]

07:33 PM on 05/10/2009

Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Anniversary to the Huff Post!
You guys love it for the content-I view it as my lifeline to likeminded people-I live in Houston and access to progressive thinking is a rare and precious thing....

[Tages72]

07:11 PM on 05/10/2009

Only four years old? Wow, it somehow feels longer, probably because I visit this site nearly every day.

Congratulations and Happy Mother's Day to everyone who posts, blogs, or browses here. All the best!

[GhostwriterDoF]

07:04 PM on 05/10/2009

Arianna, you wield Truth as a sword and Reason as a shield. Seeing you in contrast to the inane Media Talking Heads fills me with pride and hope, knowing that the world, who is also watching our media, sees in you an image of the successful American woman. And that our young women can see competence, intelligence and a strong will is be beautiful too, a kind of beauty that commands respect.

The HuffPost has come a long way in 4 years. The MSM can ignore you no more. Now they must share your stage, in order to be heard.

[dogwatch]

07:01 PM on 05/10/2009

We are lucky that Pat Robertson is a man of the cloth and not a plumber. The way he hooks things together, you would have to hit the flush handle on the commode to start your washing machine.

[Nyland8]

06:15 PM on 05/10/2009

Happy Fourth Birthday HuffPost !!!

I'll refrain from celebrating the date of your conception, because I don't believe you became a living, breathing, viable website until May 9th, 2005 - no matter how long the gestation period - no matter how long you were just a gleam in Ariannna's eye.

I will promise to celebrate your birthday every year, and wish for you to have many, many prosperous years before your graceful and ultimate demise. Best wishes.

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[clover61]

04:58 PM on 05/10/2009

Congratulations on four years Arianna. I read Huffpost everyday, sometimes more than once! I'm addicted. Love the blogs and posts. Glad to see Americans waking up and taking back their country!

Happy Mother's Day Arianna and Huff Post readers! I am missing my own mother today who passed away from breast cancer two years ago. She loved Arianna too! I definitely got my "empathy" from my dear Mom.

[blukazoo]

04:30 PM on 05/10/2009

Happy Mother's Day, Arianna. Congrat on the baby turning 4 yesterday!

[Carolab]

03:23 PM on 05/10/2009

Thank you for being one of the few sites to actually address the real issue -- the banks -- in a meaningful and consistent way.

Keep it up!

[Balzac]

03:02 PM on 05/10/2009

Happy Mother's Day, Arianna.

[Give Peace A Chance]

02:45 PM on 05/10/2009

Biggest story of the day from Stephanapoulos corporate talking heads round table is that ...... single payer health care is off the table and dead because for-profit health care providers said they won't even entertain the thought.

No surprise there, we are reliving the early 90s when health care reform failed.

[Marlyn]

03:41 PM on 05/10/2009

"for-profit health care providers said they won't even entertain the thought." ???

SO??????? Do they run this country?

[2garen]

05:39 PM on 05/10/2009

why yes, the money buys washington d.c. Banks, lobbysts, pentagon contractors, private insurance companies, corporations, and now listen how all the above mentioned should not pay taxes like the rest of us because of all the jobs they have created .

[Nofoolhere]

03:45 PM on 05/10/2009

This outrageous claim can only come to pass if we the people roll over and play dead like we did in the 1990s when Hillary Clinton tried to bring us universal single payer health care that we need and deserve.

Thanks to HuffPost (and Happy Birthday!! "mother" A) we have an outlet to declare our real progressive values, hear each other, catch glimpses of the right wing infection as they spew their uninformed ant-Spiritual invective over these pages, and for giving us a chance to actually have our concerns heard and responded to by intelligent activists. We must find an anchor point in the right wing BS and push back HARD! Never relent--stop talking and start pushing. Show us the way.

[Honabet]

05:24 PM on 05/10/2009

One problem is that we are talking to ourselves because the people who read the Post and reply to it are those who agree with it. As for health care - until the tax-paying middle class of America joins forces and actively pressures their government reps nothing will get done. When the transit company goes on strike, everyone joins together to pull through. But that's reaction, not action. No-one acts until they're pushed to the wall. Well, the wall is here. We're living in surreal times. Your rep wants to get re-elected? Well, let him/herknow that election without full support of meaningful health care reform will simply not happen.

[Emerald1943]

01:57 PM on 05/10/2009

Happy Mom's Day to you too, Arianna!

I start my day with a cup of hot tea and the Huffington Post! I cannot imagine what I would do without you!

Thanks so much for all you do!

[MrBurlesk]

01:38 PM on 05/10/2009

Happy Mother's Day to You, Arianna -- on the fourth birthday of your blessed child Huffpo -- you must indeed be proud. And Thank You and your staff for providing the internet -- no, the world -- with a classy, sassy, unabashed news alternative to the rank-and-file organizations out there. Always enjoy your outspokenness on TV as well (a medium I have, for the most part, given up since I am too poor now to afford cable) -- particularly your recent moment on Countdown with Keith Olbermann where the both of you named names of the sinister Democrats who effectively blocked legislature that would have saved homes in foreclosure and instead clearly favored banks and their own corrupt interests. Keep up the fine work exposing the disgusting underbelly of our government, the immoral and unethical past transgressions, and let us finally corner the minority of small-minded, evil-minded characters and make them bow to the powers of Progress, Truth, and Compassion.