If Luke Russert’s face appears a little more plump than usual during his next live stand up shot on the north lawn of the White House, it’s because he’s been using his new Moisture Surge Cream by Clinique.
In addition to expensive hydrating lotions, FishBowl D.C.is reporting that other ridiculous products, like eye serum, cleansing wipes, [...]
Watch Sparks Fly; literally.
Referring to a leaked internal memo from Goldman Sachs, sparks were flying when Sen Carl Levin (D) MI. interrogated the firm’s former mortgage department head, Daniel Sparks.
Wiping sand and sludge from her eyes, she mananged to snag a bush at the top of the ravine, and clutching it with her broken hand, clawed her way up out of the swamp of bubbling human ooze, and fled into the darkness.
Dina Pronicheva, a Ukranian Jew, had survived the massacre at Babi-Yar.
This is the [...]
Roasting Rahm Emanuel at a benefit in 2005, President Obama, a senator at the time, quipped that when Emanuel lost the tip of his middle finger as a result of an accident, he was rendered practically mute.
Famous for his coarse tactics and use of colorful language, Emanuel, with or without his clothing is anything but mute. In [...]
For every vote Speaker Pelosi manages to crowbar into her column on healthcare reform-one or two others slip away.
Offending his liberal sensibility, and fearing a November revolt at the polls in N.Y.’s 1st C.D., it looks like Congressman Tim Bishop (D) might hold his nose and switch his vote to NO.
Louisiana Congressman Joseph Cao, the only Republican in the House [...]
Thundering over continents of snowy moraines and ice-floes, China Air Flight 982 time traveled through 14 hours of uninterrupted daylight; when it finally landed in the morning, it was already tomorrow night.
Instantly on arrival, Chinese health officials, toting electronic monitoring equipment in trendy Converse messenger bags, boarded the plane and began individually screening passengers for flu like signs and symptoms. Since reporting [...]
At 5:00a.m., on the Tsinghua campus, along the edges of the lotus pool, while the sun is still red, there is the whirring sound of a man fanning the sidewalks with his Xiao Zhu (a small home-made switch).
Kerplunk! goes someone’s fishing line into the pond. Behind the fisherman, an older couple practices their Tai-Chi; an exercise in [...]
Behind the walls of the ancient city of Xi’an, a shop keeper is kneeling on the floor in the dust; he is making clothes for the dead.
Outside, rows of bare chested men are drinking beers, clacking mahjong tiles and spitting. The shop window is smudged with soot.
Clearly, not the GDP busting economic indicators you [...]
A grizzled old woman carrying a kettle of hot water, wafts from car to car selling Ramen noodles on the Wei River Highway.