Subject: Political Families

• Remy Ma featuring Swizz Beatz

  November 10, 2005

• Miami Blogdom As First Lady Fashion Critic

  November 7, 2008

• Secretary of State Clinton Is Almost a Sure Thing

  Obama's fast rise had as much to do with his natural charisma and thoughtful, powerful speeches as the fact that he wasn't Hillary Clinton. The former first lady a year ago seemed like a lock for the White House, but the anti-Clinton factions in her party needed a superstar challenger. Enter Obama, stage left. Of course that plan worked, in that Hillary is not our first Madame President. But she is heading to the executive branch anyway, and the New York Times reports that after days of spec

  November 21, 2008

• Own a Piece of History for Only $1,099

  The venerable New York Times is selling prints of this picture of Barack and Michelle Obama in downtown Miami starting at the low, low price of $199 for the 11 x 14 size. But if you've got the big bucks, you can splurge $1,099 on the 20 x 24 that's framed and "signed, sealed, delivered."Or, you know, you can just download it and use it as your desktop wallpaper or something for free. -- Kyle Munzenrieder

  November 24, 2008

• Tuesday Will Forever Be Known as Aretha's Hat Day

  This past Tuesday, January 20, 2009, things changed forever. Something inside the American people clicked, something that will have repercussions for years to come. It was the realization that Aretha Franklin's bow hat is friggin' awesome, and we, as a country, would not rest until it become part of our national uniform. Isobel Toledo, the designer of First Lady Michelle Obama's outfit, was supposed to be the sartorial superstar of the inauguration, but it turns out that Luke Song, an obscure ha

  January 23, 2009

• Meditations on the L-Word

  March 16, 1993

• Swelter

  March 30, 1994

• The Real Housewives of Various Governor's Mansions

  I was just checking the ol' RSS reader, and discovered that Naked Politics has a post up alerting readers to outtakes from The Real Housewives of New York City featuring Florida's First Lady Carole Rome.  I am insanely jealous we did not have this first (btw, anyone notice that the Rome has exchanged her former wardrobe of cleavage bearing dresses for more modest, but chic attires?) Somehow this lead me to wonder if Florida has the hottest State First Lady in all the land. That would of cou

  March 13, 2009

• New Poll: 9% of Southerners Find Bernie Madoff Favorable

  This week poll magicians were out in full force collectively interrupting Americans' family dinners with long surveys. Both CBS and the Daily Kos have interesting polls out where we learn surprising things (Hillary Clinton has better approval ratings than Michelle Obama) and not so surprising things (Southerners love everything I hate, and hate everything I love). The Daily Kos poll statistically proves that Southerners have the worst taste in people. Southerners hate Oprah more t

  March 18, 2009

• Ashley Biden Caught Doing Cocaine?

  There was a time when middle America could pretend cocaine was a drug done only by nightclubbin' gays at Studio 54 and used in props in Miami-set movies. Now these good churchgoing, tax-paying, troop-supporting folks are forced to realize that a lot of people have done cocaine. Like tons. Bush and Obama have snorted a few lines in their day. Bill Clinton, if you remember, once rubbed his nose against a line on Hillary's inner thigh, but did not inhale. John McCain, a known 145-year-old, was al

  March 31, 2009

• Boogie Down Barack

  January 15, 2009

• Home-Wreckers and Harlots

  November 20, 2008

• Leslie and the LYs

  November 17, 2005

• You Get What You Settle For

  December 7, 2006

• Live Wire

  January 5, 2006

• Faith Evans

  April 7, 2005

• Daydream Believers

  January 20, 2005

• Kitty Versus the Bushes

  October 21, 2004

• Behind Bush

  May 13, 2004

• An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

  December 25, 2003

• First Among Men

  January 20, 2000

• Homey Rollers

  November 25, 1999

• Hillary Clinton Feature

  March 18, 1992

• Leonard Abess Makes TIME 100

  Every year Time magazine makes a list of the 100 most influential people of that year. It is a big deal, because the American public loves lists. Those you would suspect make the grade: Barack & Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Oprah. A few surprising, but warranted inclusions: M.I.A., Nate Silver, Tina Fay, and Sully Sullenberger. Then there are a couple of 'WTF' choices: Zac Efron, the founder of 4Chan [nsfw], and the ladies of The View. Rounding out that esteemed list is

  April 30, 2009

• This is What Michelle Obama Distilled Down to Shoe Form Would Look Like

  via HDMag​Miami Designer Robert Tabor has worked out a niche for himself creating shoe sculptures, or "Sole Sensations," if you will. He has made flip-flops that look like sandwiches, stilettos that looks like spaghetti, and high heels that look like little red wagons.But his Sistine Chapel is most likely the first lady shoe wall inside the presidential sweet at the Ritz-Carlton in Palm Beach. Jackie-O has a pair, so does Hillary. Now, thank goodness on this slow news days, so does Michelle Ob

  August 26, 2009

• Miami: Second Worst Place to Raise a Family

  Michelle Obama appears on Children's Health October issue. ​When the editors of Children's Health describe the perfect locale to raise a family as "the kind of place where a child can slip on her rubber boots, grab her colorful umbrella, and play on the quiet, tree-lined street outside her home without worry," I knew Miami wouldn't come in very high on the list. Hell, I can't walk out onto a street without worry, let alone let my (theoretical) child do it. In fact, out of the 100 cities s

  September 14, 2009

• Michelle Obama's Comin'. Will She Join the Top 5 Craziest First Ladies?

  Joyce N. Boghosian Go ahead, make my day Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso ​Michelle Obama has a ridiculously difficult job.  She has to raise a family and schmooze with googly-eyed dignitaries, all the while still having to share her shortbread cookie recipes with Good Housekeeping and her arm workout routine with Women's Health.But some first ladies have not been so well adjusted. Some have mutated into shut-ins, murderesses, control freaks, and prima donnas (ironically,

  October 14, 2009

• Michelle Obama Continues Her Harsh Criticism of Barack's Dance Moves in Miami

  Last time Michelle Obama was in Miami she made her husband dance for the world as she mocked him. Well, not directly, but she had gone on Ellen earlier in the month to make fun of Barack's dance moves, and then in a live link with Ellen from his Miami rally Mr. Obama continued his campaign of awkward dancing. I mean, the guy can dance better than me, but it's not like he's going to win a Noble Dance Prize (...or will he?). 

  October 15, 2009