Post Archive

March 2010

Bara Vaida: Association of Associations Changes Its Name

The USPS just wants to work as hard as most everyone else. [Five days a week] The Postal Service took the first formal step Wednesday toward cutting mail delivery to five days a week. [cough] FedEx [cough]

Corey Owens [Facebook] Golden Girls [scale] Creative [cocktail] Remarkable [women]

Amy Argetsinger: Marion Barry says he can’t talk about the Marion Barry Show, starring Marion Barry. http://bit.ly/90A0F6 Three Marion Barry mentions in one Twitter alert? This could be a new world record. “The Twitter machine set me up!”

Mike Madden’s March Madness: @MikeMadden: May snap if I get any more press releases from political types talking about how X policy or action is the REAL March Madness. March Mayhem?

Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri: Beck’s blackboard living in Norquist’s closet “We haven’t gotten to the technology where we can use the chalkboard yet,” ATR Communications Director John Kartch told Yeas & Nays. “We’re not advanced enough for that yet.”

Biden recently said, “[I]t’s easy to be vice president, you don’t have to do anything. It’s like being the grandpa and not the parent. Yeah, that’s it!” He wasn’t kidding: [chew with your mouth closed] Vice President Joe Biden treated Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts for a lunch at the …

Write a Biden Health Reform Haiku: [simple] Haiku, as you may know, is a 5-7-5 form of poetry: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. Biden’s r-rated health reform headline from yesterday happens to contain seven syllables: Biden speaking to the President: “This is a big —-ing deal.” So we want …

Was there a wedding we weren’t invited to?  [congrats] h/t BA

Blowing a draft pick [Toby or not Toby] Democrats fund raising [healthcare] C-SPAN [dissed] Biden [haikus] NRCC [cash]

It’s not as cool as the Joe Biden tee, but it’s close.

It’s likely not what really happened, but it’s funny. Former President’s George W. Bush and Bill Clinton made their first joint visit to Haiti this week, touring and helping out in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital city devastated by the January earthquake. It’s an admirable visit, but something else happened while …

Setting: a beautiful wedding ceremony, surrounded by your closest friends and family, on a luxury yacht set against the charming scenery of the Chesapeake Bay. Does this sound like your dream wedding? Well you are in luck, because Watermark Cruises is giving away a free wedding, worth over $20,000, on …