While the slides obtained by Politico cast an unflattering light on how the RNC apparently thinks of its donors as ego-driven and reactionary, the peculiar premium placed on “tchochkes” might be even more curious (for anyone who is not a grandparent, anyway). Is this the GOP secret to cultivating their base–stocking them up for their next yard sale?

Here are additional Power Point slides that have surfaced providing further insight into how the Republican National Committee thinks.

This would make me think that someone else might think that this movie is actually, like, a thing.  And yet, like — it totally is, though, when you think about it, really.  Woah.

Nice to come across this blog from TV Blogster who has apparently been eagerly anticipating our movie.  I hope our tour-de-force ‘Spring Break Movie Where Spring Break Is Actually Outlawed’ marks the pinnacle of the genre.

Whereas the 90’s were a dangerous time for emcees avoiding manufactured beefs with bullets, this century seems to be taking out our Hip Hop greats through lackluster health care — Jay Dilla, Slum Village, Roc Raida, and no doubt others.

Here is one of my favorite Gang Starr songs, “Just to Get a Rep,” from 1991’s Step In The Arena.

Frank Rich drives home a chilling thesis in his column in today’s New York Times, charged by a recent Times expose by David Barstow, who spent months investigating the personalities and ground forces of the disparate Tea Party movement.

Where so many of these people seem to recognize the outlines of the corporate empire that has enveloped us, they mistakenly turn against their government and its potential relief from the forces that actually dispossessed them.

After Obama allowed only a single, stern-looking photo to be released of his meeting with the exiled Tibetan leader, this TMZ-style paparazzi pic captures the Dalai llama being shown out the back door of the White House along with the trash, in his trademark sandals looking like a sad streaker in D.C. winter.

Nothing personal, Dalai, but China owns $800 Billion in American Ass Equities, and the mistress treatment is necessary when U.S.-China relations are so archly enacted in this SNL piece: