“I’m looking for pies,” handsome Joe told Ivey Stewart (left), who was put in charge of ushering Biden’s shopping spree through Costco.
Reports list among his shopping cart items: kid’s books, Duraflames (fuck yeah), a 32 inch Panasonic TV and a “big” apple pie. As expected, the veep helped himself to Costco’s smorgasbord of free samples, between flirting with the ladies, chatting with shoppers about the White House’s tax negotiations with Congress and hugs with fellow Delawareans.
I love de Costco. This is where – at one point – I bought the contents of my sad life: (also) Duraflames, NyQuil, cheap mega bottles of Maker’s Mark, frozen creampuffs and assorted party snacks. That’s right, my life was one big, unending party. Now, I can buy my mineral water and fancy olive oil guilt-free, AND, the math works out. Costco saves you money. P.S.: Stretch pants by Adidas are only $17.
(VIA BUZZFEED) WASHINGTON, DC — Before Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham went after Susan Rice for claiming that the attack in Benghazi was the result of an anti-Islamic video, the pair defended then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from charges that she was a “liar” over her testimony claiming there were WMDs in Iraq.
Not since the Monica Lewinsky affair have we been subjected to such a boring account of adult sex in the modern age. In US political culture, nothing tantalizes or titillates the media like a sex scandal. Even pedestrian, boring sex with boring people in the boring suburbs.
Even as the baggy-faced, weak chinned, becombovered, 60 year old resigned in disgrace, the political media was reduced to alternatively mournful and worshipful bemoaning of The Great One’s fall from grace. Reporters waxed idiotic on the glorious “battlefield” from which the CIA Director is now absent. What is this idea that David Petraeus is this Great White Hope of American civic life, and the sudden end to his career is a National Tragedy that attenuates the future prospects of our country? Putting lipstick on the Iraq War long enough for us to get the fuck out of there isn’t exactly Ike trampling Hitler. I do believe America will carry on. Alas, military worship is the central religion of America’s political and media culture. Consider how at every ball game, we civilians stand, under unspoken order, pious and dewey eyed, as we are subjected to some uber-patriotic display of military might. And, in the National Security State and the Foreign Policy Community, General David Petraeus is the single most revered man.
As Not Seen on TV Restaurant Review: Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square
By PETE WELLS
GUY FIERI, have you eaten at your new restaurant in Times Square? Have you pulled up one of the 500 seats at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar and ordered a meal? Did you eat the food? Did it live up to your expectations?
Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex? When you saw the burger described as “Guy’s Pat LaFrieda custom blend, all-natural Creekstone Farm Black Angus beef patty, LTOP (lettuce, tomato, onion + pickle), SMC (super-melty-cheese) and a slathering of Donkey Sauce on garlic-buttered brioche,” did your mind touch the void for a minute?
Mitt Romney’s campaign got its first hint something was wrong on the afternoon of Election Day, when state campaign workers on the ground began reporting huge turnout in areas favorable to President Obama: northeastern Ohio, northern Virginia, central Florida and Miami-Dade.
Then came the early exit polls that also were favorable to the president.
But it wasn’t until the polls closed that concern turned into alarm. They expected North Carolina to be called early. It wasn’t. They expected Pennsylvania to be up in the air all night; it went early for the President.
Old City Philadelphia, November, 2012 via the haunted iphone
