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Today is National Pink Day, which might seem like a huge waste of a national holiday to you (and no, it has nothing to do with breast cancer), but let’s face it: we all need at least one day to get all the pent-up pinkaliciousness out of our systems. That said, even on pink day [...]

We’ve often wondered what useless things Bush Jr. would get up to after leaving D.C. Dan Greenburg nails it with number 15: “Embarks on an international tour as a stand-up comedian, but bombs in Iran.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-greenburg/21-things-bush-does-after_b_162010.html

Yesterday’s inauguration had plenty of notable moments: John Roberts fumbling the Oath of Office, Ted Kennedy’s health scare at the luncheon, Aretha Franklin’s hat upstaging Aretha Franklin. Mostly, the coverage lent even more lucidity to my dreams of a White House slumber party with Sasha and Malia Obama (at which we’ll play dress-up and prank [...]

Though the Obama inauguration (in case some media outlet hasn’t reminded you in the last ten minutes) is still one week away, the process of moving the new first family’s stuff into the White House has already begun. An exhaustive and expensive process (even though the Obamas have to hire their own movers to get [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]