“Sonia Sotomayor in the news. She’s testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And she has said that she ‘felt out of place attending Princeton.’ Sotomayor says there were so many white males in Princeton, she felt like she was testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.” – Conan O’Brien “Have you been […]
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At the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast, U2 singer Bono stiffed then-president Bush out of a photo op when Bush tried to give Bono a hug. He dodged the hug by stepping behind the podium, and thought that nobody noticed. But when he sat down, he was sitting next to then-Senator Barack Obama. In the following […]
The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee keep bringing up the Wise Latina quote: © Clay Jones © Mike Luckovich
“President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had her second day in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. I guess they have to do that in order to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Her confirmation is pretty much a forgone conclusion, but even the leading Republican said the only way she would not […]
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© Stuart Carlson Paul Krugman, on the massive bonuses that Goldman Sacks is preparing to hand out to their employees (an average of over $1 million per employee!), just a few months after the massive federal bailout, and why this is almost certainly very bad for America. And Andy Borowitz reports that Goldman Sachs is […]
“Today, the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor got under way. And, of course, people have opinions on both sides. Critics of Judge Sotomayor claim that she has a bias against white people. But this morning, she proved them wrong by showing up at the hearings wearing a Coldplay t-shirt and carrying a […]
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Jesse Ventura says what he really feels about Sotomayor, Franken, Palin (“I would never vote for her”), Michael Jackson, politician’s private lives (“They spent $100 million to discover Bill Clinton cheated on Hillary, when on 9/11 they only allocated $4 million to find out who killed 3,000 people”), and Obama (“He’s doing a heck of […]
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After Sonia Sotomayor mentioned that as a child she loved watching Perry Mason on TV, and that it inspired her interest in the law, (new Senator) Al Franken got some laughs with his observation: It amazes me that you wanted to become a prosecutor based on the show, because in ‘Perry Mason’ the prosecutor on […]
“President Obama had a private, 35-minute meeting at the Vatican with Pope Benedict. That’s right, folks, the man considered by many followers to be infallible had a meeting with Pope Benedict.” – Conan O’Brien “I don’t know if you’re following this, but earlier today, in Vatican City, President Obama had a historic meeting with Pope […]
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