Divalicious. That Nancy Pelosi reportedly has spent $16,000 on posies. We applaud her personal esthetic, but we doubt taxpayers will cop to her fancy-girl beautification program. From a personal responsibility standpoint, we do think $16,000 is a lot less than the funds she's likely spent on ... er, personal beautification. Uhhumm ... Not that there's anything wrong with that. Wonder what her favorites are? Mebbe she likes all those white lilies like Jennifer Lopez requires for her dressing rooms. We must call those intrepid Hill reporters and find out. Personally, we are partial to a mixture of Virginia and Anna roses, low and tight in a Tiffany bowl. We hate tall flower arrangements. We really do.
The Clinton camp's attack on Obama over past drug use is some kind of lame and out of touch. There are a lot of people who did inhale, who are willing to admit it and also ready to move on and put the past in the past. If we were Obama's camp, we'd open up a can of South Side Chicago whoop (rhymes with gas) on his opponent over the past White House. Talk about backfiring. These people have just drawn first blood. AS IF.
While the world will focus on the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3, we will tune to the latest incarnation of Donald Trump's television show, "The Apprentice," featuring celebrity guests, including Kiss rocker Gene Simmons (LOVE his reality show), supermodel Carol Alt and that devilish D.C. damsel Omarosa. Ya know how evil that girl can be! She should join a political campaign as the chief of dirty tricks.
Ike Turner has died and we don't feel so good ourself. He was not good with women, but we applaud his unique superbad strangeness. He seemed an unusual man with anger issues.
Speaking of domestic violence, what about waterboarding repeat offenders?
There's some justice for ya.
Speaking of domestic violence again ... that retired cop whose wife is still missing, Drew Peterson, now wants folks to donate online for his legal defense. And, he's asked the cops to return the guns they seized in their investigation of his wife's disappearance. That dude has got some. All we're sayin' ...
Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins will tour with John Edwards this weekend in Iowa. It's not Oprah but it's something, we guess. We did like "Bull Durham" and "Footloose." There's that.
Another musical tip from our personal grab bag: anything by the Colombian artist Juanes. We don't speak Espanol much but we do think he's amazing.
In other happy retail news: we are squarely back in the Missoni camp. For a while there, nada, but now, we're loving it.
-- Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
