Barack Obama: Fly-Killing Badass
President Obama was doing an interview with CNBC today when a pesky fly started buzzing around, interrupting the proceedings. So, without missing a beat, Obama employed his stealth ninja reflexes and handily dispatched the pest. Watch and be in awe. Update: As for what Obama actually said during the interview, Politico reports that he took a swat at Fox News. "I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration…That's a pretty big megaphone. You'd be hard pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front," Obama said. "We welcome people who are asking us some tough questions. I think I've probably been as accessible as any president in the first six months…..I think that actually the reason people have been generally positive about what we've been trying to do is people feel as if I'm available and willing to answer questions and we haven't been trying to hide the ball." MORE >>
Meet New York's Worst Food Nazi Mom
We support the idea that kids should eat healthy food. Theoretically. But when it involves a crazy mom ranting against birthday cupcakes and battling Girl Scout cookies, we must demur. Meet MeMe Roth, publicist and food Nazi mother: MeMe lives on the Upper West Side, and she has two kids in school (she also runs National Action Against Obesity). She is rather unpopular, because she really doesn't want her kids eating junk food. Reasonable, you say? "What sets her off is the junk food served on special occasions: the cupcakes that come out for every birthday, the doughnuts her children were once given in gym, the sugary 'Fun-Dip' packets that some parent provided the whole class on Valentine's Day." She makes her kids put every piece of food they get in school that is not the official school lunch in a Tupperware container dubbed the "junk food collector." She tried to get the school to require permission slips for kids to have any food not on the lunch menu. "Ms. Roth waged war on the bagels and Pringles meal served to kids at lunch." War! When she met with the school's principal about the issue, she "threw candy onto the table and cursed." "The police were called to a Y.M.C.A. in 2007 when she absconded with the sprinkles and syrups on a table where members were being served ice cream." She called Santa Claus fat, in a bad way.They're good friends with MeMe over at Jezebel too! She once compared eating to rape, for example. We're totally going to hand out Twinkies to P.S. 9 kids coming out of school tomorrow. [NYT; Pic via. Read MeMe's testimonials here. She's "truly passionate about health and nutrition."] MORE >>
The Cheechako, His Wife, and Her Securities Lawyer: An Adulterous Tale
Nothing good ever happens when you're in Canada. Take the case of a white-collar pauper who traveled North only to have his wife back home cheat with a lawyer. Enraged and hurt, the pioneer started emailing everyone he knows. AboveTheLaw has the whole long, sad saga. Apparently, some poor schmuck went up to Calgary to seek his fortune, sending back long beautiful letters to his lonely wife and their four children. By letters, of course we mean texts. Anyway! While this poor fellow labored in the hills and mines of Canadian high finance, wifey was busy getting down with a securities lawyer at the large, troubled firm White & Case. On a return trip home, the husband found his wife's cellphone, read some texts, realized that adultery was occurring, and so began sending emails to everyone he could think of (including most of the people at White & Case), detailing the whole affair, with names. It's some strange, sad shit: When you decided to start sleeping with my wife while I was out of town over the last few weeks (May 27 - June 7 2009), you threatened my way of life, and you really hurt a lot of people - most notably the lives of my 4 very young children. You are a securities lawyer at White & Case, so you know how to do due diligence. Perhaps you thought it was clever or fun, but attending a school recital with my wife who you've just met and started sleeping with over the last few weeks is extremely poor judgement. Sleeping with other mens wives, is alone, perhaps the poorest taste and the worst judgement all on its own. It implies a very low moral character. I would like to especially thank those at [my kids' school] that watched this unfold at the school concert last week, and did nothing to alert me or defend my family. That is certainly a church and a school I want my children to grow up learning from. You have all seen me drop my kids off and pick them up there every single day for the last year. Did you think to mention anything when I showed up there last Monday June 8 at my kids ceremonies? The poor sap then went on to detail the text messages that his wife received from several paramours. The wife is 'SexyLexus' and the men are, well, the other people texting: 3rd Guy to the Party to Sexy Lexus: Just got home. Is it ok if I get there at 1015. Need a shower and have to get pretty for u. Lol. — SexyLexus to Abiding Dude: I would love to talk to u and kiss for hours :) Abiding Dude: Sweet. Does this involve a rolling stones t shirt? — SexyLexus: More bareback Cuckolded in Canada: Are you kidding me? We're married with 4 kids and she's talking about doing more bareback with this guy? Miami White: Loving it! Miami White is the rascal from White & Case who's keeping the missus' marital bed warm while old Onion Jack goes north in search of gold. Miami White: Am in bed.... reading and thinking of you. SexyLexus: I would love to cuddle with you right now smell u kiss u talk to u. Miami White: And much much more. Me too.... MORE >>
New York City Rich Bravely Defend Themselves Against NYC Prep Kids
Everybody knows that NYC Prep show isn't real. That's what the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog proudly reminds us. See, real NYC preppers are nothing like the upcoming series. One of the schools even sent a letter saying as much. See one of the Bravo show's cast members, the cockle-eyed Camille, goes to Nightingale-Bamford, a tony Upper Eastern academy in the vein of those on Gossip Girl. Well the school isn't exactly thrilled about this attention, so the administration sent out a bitchy-in-a-stiff-East-Coast-way letter to parents basically saying "this girl does not represent Nightingale." The decision to participate in the show was made by the student and her parents without consulting Nightingale's administrators. We counsel our girls to avoid such exposure, knowing that the best intentions are usually subsumed by a media machine that too often simplifies the many facets of a Nightingale education into a shallow and stereotypical view of independent schools. (As with most series of this genre, the show is "reality" in name only.) ... This is not the first time someone has presented skewed version of our world, nor will it be the last, so we approach this situation as we've handled others previously: focused on providing our girls the world-class education that has long defined Nightingale. Plus all the cattiness and drugs and sex and handbags! They have also defined Nightingale! Civilians who are in the know are also refuting any reality show's claim to UES verity. Like, for example, the playa kid on Prep, Sebastian, goes to a newish prep school on fucking Long Island. Girl, that does not count. And while Peter "PC" Peterson may be the grandson of a real life tycoon, he still went on public radio on Long Island to call the Real Housewives of New York "trashy pieces of shit." (We've tried to find this interview online, but alas cannot. Anyone?) So there's lots of society infighting and name-calling and huzzabub and ugh. How silly. As one society insider describes their experiences with New York's wealthy youngs: "What was off-putting was that the fact that we were in a mansion wasn't discussed." Which is exactly it. The wealthy don't talk about money. The rich talk about money. We guess that means the NYC Prep kids are rich. Which, as we all know, means nothing. Oh, and, if you're curious: Sebastian goes to the very-recently-established Ross School; Camille attends Nightingale-Bamford; Jessie and PC attend the Dwight School; Kelli (whose parents live in the Hamptons and visit their teenagers in Manhattan one night a week) attends Birch-Wathen-Lenox, and Taylor goes to Stuyvesant, which is not a prep school but a magnet public school. [via Miss Chris Rovzar at Daily Intel] MORE >>
Fox & Friends Bunch Is Thinking Hard about This Iran Election Thing
The brain trust at Fox & Friends is often swatting at confusing things, trying in vain to figure them out, and today was no exception. The topic was that thing that's going on in Iran with the votes or whatever. Their discussion mostly involved Brian Kilmeade—who we often think is the worst of the bunch but then we remember the other two and have to start all over again—trying to smash a round peg into the square hole of his mind and in the end failing to come up with anything more astute than People in Iran have long names. In the background Gretchen Carlson—she's the worst! Oh, wait. No, there's Doocy too. And Kilmeade. Fuck.—nodded sagely and pawed a dust mote, while Doocy just softly wept in a corner, praying for news about things that are easy. Like Sarah Palin's daughter. MORE >>
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