thefrogman:

“Hillary, did you see my speech?”

“Yes, absolutely. Almost all of it.”

I have to imagine Bill would have made a great addition to the Party Down team. [via]

Bill Clinton and Mindy Kaling pick their must-have books of the holiday season. Upon reviewing Clinton’s list, Mindy said she would have chosen more “PhD-friendly books.” That’s just silly…

Watch the clip (and hear Ann Curry say ‘semen’) and check out their book selections below:

Mindy Kaling’s list

1. “11/22/63” By Stephen King
2. “Bossypants” By Tina Fey 
3. “Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson” By Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson 
4. “My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”  By Gwyneth Paltrow 
5. “Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty” By Andrew Bolton
6. “The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Tess Monaghan Novel” By Laura Lippman 
7. “The Marriage Plot: A Novel” By Jeffrey Eugenides 
8. “Look I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany” By Stephen Sondheim
9. “The Art of Fielding” By Chad Harbach 
10. “What to Wear, Where: The How-to Handbook for Any Style Situation” By Hilary Kerr and Katherine Power

Bill Clinton’s list  

1. “Jerusalem” By Simon Sebag Montefiore 
2. “Lincoln” By David Herbert Donald
3. “Meditations” By Marcus Aurelius 
4. “The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century” By David Fromkin
5. “The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes” By Seamus Heaney 
6. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” By Adam Hochschild
8. “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny” By Robert Wright 

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Yo-Yo Ma, Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins and Barbara Cook “were saluted with Kennedy Center Honors” on Sunday night. The 34th annual ceremony will air on December 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. [AP/CBS]

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