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If you're a foodie or a history buff, consider reading Jennifer 8. Lee's excellent "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:47:34 -0500

If you're a foodie or a history buff, consider reading Jennifer 8. Lee's excellent "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles."

Random Question: What would Jeremy Lin inspired ice cream have in it, if you were creating it?

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:38:24 -0500

Basketballs, clutch three-pointers, 20+ points a game on average, and five, maybe six turnovers.

I should stop being such a sensitive minority. (Looks in mirror; points at self.) I mean really -- shut up, brown person!

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:36:09 -0500

Can I also point out that Ben and Jerry's apology was a shitty "if anyone was offended" non-apology?

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:34:07 -0500

No.

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:33:19 -0500

No.

comedycentral: Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns to The Daily Show...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:11:41 -0500

comedycentral:

Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns to The Daily Show Tonight

Everybody’s favorite astrophysicist will make his sixth appearance on The Daily Show tonight at 11/10c (he’s been on Colbert eight times).

Hit the link to watch the first five interviews.

If you watched last night's Oscars,

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:10:12 -0500

then you might be following Angelina Jolie’s right leg or Jennifer Lopez’s partial...

Yes, I love to “throw out” and “scream”...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:05:24 -0500

Yes, I love to “throw out” and “scream” my ethnicity, and also to have white people tell me how to celebrate my ethnicity by tossing (fortune) cookies into ice cream named after me because when I think “people of Chinese or Taiwanese descent,” I think fortune cookies. Thanks for playing.

Okay, this is pretty funny and maybe awesome.

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:00:26 -0500

Okay, this is pretty funny and maybe awesome.

NPR releases new ethics handbook

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:50:19 -0500

NPR releases new ethics handbook: onaissues: From the introduction: “Journalism is a daily process...

NY DAILY NEWS: Et tu, Ben & Jerry's? The company's Jeremy Lin tribute ice cream -- sprinkled with bits of fortune cookies, GET IT? -- tastes like yummy racism.

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:49:00 -0500

NY DAILY NEWS: Et tu, Ben & Jerry's? The company's Jeremy Lin tribute ice cream -- sprinkled with bits of fortune cookies, GET IT? -- tastes like yummy racism.

Them’s fighting words from the author of The Descendants.

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:24:27 -0500

Them’s fighting words from the author of The Descendants.

U.S. Army private Bradley Manning, who provided classified...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:05:14 -0500

U.S. Army private Bradley Manning, who provided classified military documents to WikiLeaks, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Photo: Patrick Semansky / AP via the New York Daily News)

Mitt listened carefully to the voice piping through the...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:54:00 -0500

Mitt listened carefully to the voice piping through the headphones. Don’t say anything stupid, it intoned. Don’t blow this. Don’t fuck this up. And as he contemplated his next soundbite, the son of the former Michigan governor, the founder of Staples and general rich guy sifted through the verbs and nouns and adverbs and stuff inside his coiffed, pomaded, sculpted head and heard nothing but a rattle akin to pebbles inside an empty, spinning oil drum.

Also the rain was starting to drip down the back of his neck below the collarline of his red Daytona 500 commemorative racing jacket onto his carefully pleated patterned shirt and it was irritating, irritating like when his illegal immigrant gardening crew hacked too much off the rose bushes or cut the grass around his manse to the wrong height, he likes the blades of grass just long enough to catch and slow a chipped golf ball, and sometimes they cut it too short, and again, it annoyed him, and now he had that same feeling as the rivulets of rainwater snaked down his back, following the cut of his metallic spine into the crack of his ass, and that’s when he spat forth these words:

“I have some great friends that are NASCAR team owners.”

And the voice in the headphones, enraged, ordered Mitt the Romney to STOP TALKING! STOP TALKING! YOU ARE RUINING YOUR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN! YOU ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE COMMON MAN! SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! But at that point the water hit the exposed bionic circuit on his inner right thigh and his brain farted and he kept talking about how he likes the asphalt oval and how the cars go ‘round and ‘round and how is it they never get dizzy, anyway? and what’s with all the stickers on these cars and are they made in America and how much would it cost to buy a few for his kids and also to have one at his vacation home in California? Don’t worry, we have the room on our driveway, I can always ask “the help” to park and clean them.

On that day the voice in the headphones could do nothing for its candidate. Only be angry at him, and mourn, and be treated for depression under Romneycare.

(Photo: Reuters via The Atlantic)

"I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:39:25 -0500

“I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.” - Republican presidential...

"At least one gunman opened fire inside a suburban Ohio high school injuring at two, or perhaps as..."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:29:02 -0500

“At least one gunman opened fire inside a suburban Ohio high school injuring at two, or...

In other news, Dwyane Wade broke Kobe Bryant's nose during the All-Star Game.

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:23:28 -0500

In other news, Dwyane Wade broke Kobe Bryant's nose during the All-Star Game.

Politico’s readers would like to thank United Technologies...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:51:40 -0500

Politico’s readers would like to thank United Technologies for the full-page vibrator this early in the morning.

Manhattan.

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:29:40 -0500

Manhattan.

We all realize the cast of Bridesmaids were the best presenters...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:17:20 -0500

We all realize the cast of Bridesmaids were the best presenters of the evening by far, yes?

(Photo of Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy appearing to down those tiny little bottles of vodka during their presentation for Best, um, something during the 84th annual Academy Awards by the AP via the Daily Mail)