What do you think people use his father’s books for?

It is—in addition, Joel McHale will be hosting a Card Sharks reboot.

And McCain not only never bothered to hide his lousy academic record, but later developed a good sense of humor about it.

They’re both on Salon, by Amanda Marcotte and Bob Cesca.

There are no words that can truly express how much I adore this post.

The quote says “Thanksgiving last year,” so that’s out. My money’s on her being too drunk to know what she was doing.

For him, all his kids are is proof that his sperm works.

Florence Harding did not poison her husband (although she might have had cause to). The main White House physician was their family doctor from Ohio and a stubborn quack, who refused to acknowledge that Warren Harding had suffered a heart attack. He both prescribed treatment and forced food on the poor guy that wound…

She and her husband have two daughters and the elder one (Abigail) will only be 6 next year, so also still pretty young as well.

The studio (Fox) decided to enter Bohemian Rhapsody in the Drama category. (Same for Warners with A Star Is Born.) Both felt the films were more dramas with music than actual musicals.

Along about Friday, just to stretch this non-story out a few more days, Daddy and/or Sammy will no doubt be all over the British media with something along the lines of: “And I only saw the card in the media! My horrible daughter/half-sister didn’t even send me a Christmas card!! Can you imagine the shame I must feel??…

Another fun fact—Newtie didn’t decide to actually dump wife #2 for mistress Callista until after wifie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Actually, the BBC has refused to carry the wedding live—they don’t think it has enough “viewer interest.” There’s an outside chance ITV may pick it up, but that also seems to be growing dimmer.

It’s not that internalized...

For the Primetime Emmys, it’s the year starting June 1 and ending May 31.

Some backup:

One problem for Donnie’s boosters...as pointed out by several people on Twitter, the Nobel nomination deadline for this year was February 1st.

That was Newt, who followed up by leaving his second wife (for owl-eye Callista, whom he’d already been shagging for seven years) shortly after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Actually, the event took place while Taft was serving as Governor of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. It was reported thusly in Mark Sullivan’s six-volume history of the 1900-1925 period, Our Times:

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