Lobbyists in Washington have blood on their hands for helping the top US gun lobby derail President Barack Obama’s push for tougher gun laws, protesters said Thursday. Several dozen people gathered in McPherson Square, near the White House, at lunch hour to name and shame six lobbying firms…
Picture of the Day: Joe Biden meets the “Veep”
Vice President Joe Biden met with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the star of HBO’s “Veep,” in his office at the White House. In an audio recording posted on the Vice President’s “Being Biden” blog, Louis-Dreyfus describes the visit:”This is a picture of two Vice Presidents hard at work in the Vice President’s office in the West Wing. I came to have lunch with Vice President Joe Biden and I surprised him by sitting at his desk, so he thought he’d just ask my advice on various briefs he had to deal with. And I was happy to give him my advice, which he paid no attention to whatsoever. Which is why he’s such a wise Vice President.”Here’s the audio:Continue Reading… … Read More
Pic of the Day: Joe Biden meets the “Veep”
Vice President Joe Biden met with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the star of HBO’s “Veep,” in his office at the White House. In an audio recording posted on the Vice President’s “Being Biden” blog, Louis-Dreyfus describes the visit:”This is a picture of two Vice Presidents hard at work in the Vice President’s office in the West Wing. I came to have lunch with Vice President Joe Biden and I surprised him by sitting at his desk, so he thought he’d just ask my advice on various briefs he had to deal with. And I was happy to give him my advice, which he paid no attention to whatsoever. Which is why he’s such a wise Vice President.”Here’s the audio:Continue Reading… … Read More
‘Are Greeks gonna repay the bailout with feta?’
Can Greece count on the support of the 580 Greek-Swedes next month when the southern Swedish city hosts the Eurovision Song Contest? Well, not likely, as many of Malmö’s Greeks tell The Local there is no such thing as a free lunch. … Read More
GOP’s new digital strategy is BuzzFeed
The National Republican Congressional Committee is going for Internet lols. The organization is relaunching its Web site, and aims to model it after Internet media giant BuzzFeed–complete with animated gifs, cute animals, lists and all.The site has already added “13 Animals That Are Really Bummed on Obamacare’s Third Birthday” and meme-like images on its Facebook page, such as this one: [caption id="attachment_13261666" align="alignleft" width="600" caption=" "]“BuzzFeed’s eating everyone’s lunch,” NRCC spokesman Gerrit Lansing told the National Journal. “They’re making people want to read and be cognizant of politics in a different way.” Continue Reading… … Read More
How Groucho Marx was saved
Groucho Marx began hosting the TV game show “You Bet Your Life” in 1947. This was after his classic films with Chico, Harpo and Zeppo, and unlike those movies, Groucho didn’t dance around in a painted-on mustache. He sat in a chair with his cigar, wisecracking with the contestants for a long time, and the results were the stuff of classic TV.You can watch the show on Netflix now, or YouTube – which might not have been possible if it weren’t for the efforts of Andy Marx, the grandson of Groucho Marx. Andy’s a writer and photographer now, and co-founder of a satiric online magazine called “Hollywood & Swine.” But in 1973 he was instrumental in saving this vital piece of Marxianna and Hollywood history from the garbage dump.First question: How many people have tried out their Groucho Marx impression on you?Oh my god, probably hundreds. There’s some legitimate ones that are good. I’ll be at lunch, and somebody will throw off some line or something, or they’ll try to relate a line of Groucho’s to whatever’s going on in the conversation.At what point did you realize that your grandfather was Groucho Marx and what that meant?Continue Reading… … Read More
Must-see morning clip: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweets at his mom daily
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey made quite an impression on “60 Minutes’” Lara Logan, who described him as a great philosopher of our day. Dorsey tells Logan that he views his start-ups, social media giant Twitter and electronic pay system Square, as movements.But not everyone who uses Twitter is trying to start a revolution–part of the movement is the ability to enhance peoples’ daily lives. “I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner,” says Dorsey. “And for 99.99999 percent of the world, it’s useless. It’s meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.”Continue Reading… … Read More
