Good Riddance

This is about two weeks late, but better late than never. (Warning: I nearly peed my pants watching it.)

The Cool Kids

Much has been made of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. But according to The Daily Beast, there’s a small clique of deputies and advisors wielding great power and influence on the The Big O. Click here for a guide to this administration’s inside players.

First Lady Fashion

From pearls to pencil skirts, snagging Michelle Obama’s super-chic style is just 10 tips away.

From Sex to Slate

Eliot Spitzer, the ex-New York governor and former Ashley Dupre lover, landed  himself a new gig writing a financial column for Slate called “The Best Policy.” One would think a sex column would be more lucrative, but oh well. Here it is.

(Bipartisan) Crush of the Day

I’ve had an “I Only Sleep with Democrats” button (courtesy of my husband) hanging in my home office for as long as I can remember. But after taking the Huffington Post’s “Who’s the Hottest Congressional Freshman” poll, I realized sometimes it’s necessary to reach across the aisle.

Aaron Schock, 27
Party: Republican from Illinois
Romantic Status: Single
Fun fact: Shock is the first member of the U.S. Congress to be born in the 1980s. At age 19, he was the youngest member of the Peoria, Illinois school board.

Positively Pennsylvania Avenue

From The New Yorker:

(Left: Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, photographed in 1963 by Don Hunstein/CBS; right: Barack and Michelle Obama, photographed in 2009 by Doug Mills/The New York Times)