From Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign website:
“Hillary’s American Health Choices Plan covers all Americans and improves health care by lowering costs and improving quality. It speaks to American values, American families, and American jobs.â€
Shucks! Just six months ago Clinton boldly told a campaign audience in Iowa:
“I believe everyone — every man, woman and child — should have quality, affordable health care in America.â€
That is, every man, woman, and child who doesn’t work for her campaign. From this morning’s Politico:
Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out …
[T]he unpaid bills to Aetna were at least two months old, according to FEC filings.
They show the campaign ended last year owing Aetna more than $213,000 for “employee benefits.â€
In case you’re wondering why Ashlee Simpson is making the magazine and talk-show rounds, it’s because she has a new album coming out called Bittersweet World.
(Sidenote to Ashlee: Bitch, please. You don’t have nearly enough edge for a drama-queen album title like that. I don’t care that you now have red hair, you just don’t.)
Her dad/manager Joe Simpson wants her to go on Saturday Night Live to promote it, but guess what? They remember what happened last time.
Camp Simpson’s rationale for the rejection?
A rep for Ashlee said, “We’re not doing ‘SNL’ because they’re dark the week we are here in April and there were no other opportunities later in the year.”
Or maybe SNL’s producers just aren’t buying that she’s really professional. You know it.
Sometimes Deceiver posts just write themselves:
It seemed like an honorable goal: Draft an honor code for University of Texas at San Antonio students to follow, exhorting them not to cheat or plagiarize.
But when students threw a draft of the new honor code onto the Internet for feedback, some noticed a problem: Parts of the code appeared to have been lifted word for word from another school’s honor code, without attribution. Even the definition of plagiarism was, well, plagiarized.
Akshay Thusu, the student in charge of the honor code effort, said it was an oversight, the result of a draft that was crafted five years ago and passed through different students and faculty advisers before landing in his lap.
“We believe there might be a citation page,” Thusu said. “We are still looking for it.”
Thanks to ultracute reader Toby for the tip!
This might explain why Keith Richards chided Amy Winehouse for using drugs:
“I can’t even remember yesterday.”
He says his constant marijuana smoking combined with a head injury he sustained during a fall from a coconut tree in 2006 may be impeding his progress on an upcoming autobiography.
About his current drug use:
“I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time. But that’s my benign weed. That’s all I take, that’s all I do. But I do smoke, and I’ve got some really good hash.”
…
“You have to drag things out of your memory. Some of it you don’t even want to remember and others you’ve totally forgotten, so you end up trying to put your life together again.
“And since I didn’t keep a diary, it’s a bit difficult.”
Sounds like this Rolling Stone is going to give James Frey a run for his money for the fictional memoir Pulitzer.
The diminutive dolphin-defender received the amazingly prestigious Gretchen Wyler Award on Saturday night. Whaddaya mean, you’ve never heard of the Gretchen Wyler Award? It’s only the best prize ever:
“As an actress, you always dream of getting awards like the Golden Globe award, but I never expected to get an award that is this special and important to me as this,” Hayden said through tears. “There are people who dedicate their entire lives to preserving the environment and defending animals, they are so much more deserving of something like this.”
No argument! (If only they were on Heroes.) This was at the Genesis Awards, which are produced not by the silly band, but by the silly Humane Society. Last year Hayden made a spectacle of herself brought attention to “saving the dolphins” in Japan, but apparently these people are willing to overlook all the bunnies and cows she’s killed. Save the Animals (That Don’t Earn Cute Lil’ Hayden a Big Paycheck).
P.S. Oh, and don’t forget all the cows she’s exploited! (Thanks to reader Melissa)
Brad Pitt in the Oct. ‘06 issue of Esquire:
“Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.”
Brad Pitt on Saturday afternoon, according to the Star:
“I do.”
Guess they know something the rest of us don’t! Or maybe not. If they didn’t actually get hitched, er, um, never mind.
P.S. Now the Star is saying: “After further investigation, the sources are not standing by their story.” Those darn sources!
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