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Comedian Wanda Sykes was killing ’em this weekend at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. The dinner, the first attended by Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, upped the glitz factor significantly in otherwise buttoned-up Washington (hence the nickname folks here employed: “Nerd Prom.”) And it was a strange sight indeed: Administration officials…

THE NATION has convened a great roundtable of legal thinkers, from Dahlia Lithwick to Lani Guinier, musing on the big question on Barack Obama’s mind: Whom to nominate for the Supreme Court? The always-contentious deliberations have taken on even more heightened importance because this is the first Democratic court appointment in 15 years. Will the…

Via Sommer Mathis of DCIST, the, ahem, crackdown on former Washington Mayor Marion Barry for his loudmouthed disapproval of gay marriage continues: Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart did a little segment on the D.C. Council’s recent vote to approve legislation that would allow the District to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other…

Via Foreign Policy’s Passport blog, here comes the news that ought to have US moviemakers quaking in their shoes: Nollywood is officialy bigger than Hollywood. John Boonstra at UN DISPATCH reports: According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) survey, Bollywood – as the Mumbai-based film industry is known – produced 1,091 feature-length films in…

Fans of “The Wire” and fans of the Big Easy are about to get one mother of a mashup: David Simon, reporter, author, and prolific creator of HBO’s “The Wire” as well as other classic dramas like “Homicide: Life On The Street” and “The Corner,” has confirmed plans to create a series for HBO based…

A new law being touted as the “Credit Card Holders’ Bill of Rights” passed the House today. Sponsored by Reps. Barney Frank, Carolyn Maloney and Luis Guttierez, the bill would provide protections against the type of ugly predations that countless famlies and individuals have been subject to in the age of easy money from which…

Pace Jon’s post: CNN’s “swagga” video is a must-watch. Anchor Kyra Phillips hosts a segment on president Barack Obama’s “swagga” (going to basketball games, eating dinner, hugging people) featuring correspondent T.J. Holmes after which Holmes entreats Phillips to “hug it out” and then Phillips insists that she “gotta get that bump” (read: terrorist fist-jab) before…

Now that the first lady of the United States is past her first 100 days in “office,” a host of profiles and tributes and pop theses on her appeal have started to appear: The NEW YORK TIMES wrote about how Obama’s staff has maintained tight-fisted control over her public image; while the WASHINGTON POST describes…

The official White House photostream on the website Flickr boasts hundreds of extraordinary photographs of president Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. The candids—of the Obama girls playing on the swingset with their mother, the president rocking out at his Super Bowl party, and relaxing with some birthday cake at an Oval Office birthday…