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Which led my husband to pose the question to our daughters, What would Jesus watch? That in turn led to an intriguing--and useful--conversation around our dinner table. It's the oldest teacher's trick, better to show than tell: the Sermon on the Mount was clean and clear, but Jesus also offered parables, little mysteries to unwrap and examine for their coded messages. This is a delivery device especially good for teenagers building their rebellious muscles...
There’s a D.C. “Housewives?” Hell yeah. In fact, soon-to-be D.C. housewife Michaele Salahi got some great pub for the show last week with a super classy visit to the White House state dinner. I know it’s hard to follow the table flipping and stripper accusations of New Jersey or the spray-on tan recession woes of Orange County, but this girl really brought it. Meeting Obama is consequential. Being on the guest list and not freaking out the nation is not. Secret Service, you need...
...second is intentional. You crash a President's state dinner or crash a balloon into a Colorado field. Like Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the socialites and Real Housewives of D.C. aspirants who swanned into the White House on Nov. 24, you do doughnuts on the lawn of notoriety and smack head-on into the tree of shamelessness. Then you take pictures of the steaming wreck and post them on Facebook while touting your availability for "national and international" product endorsements. Anyone with further questions can see your agent. (See the top 10 people caught on Facebook...
...other news, Professors Rothschild and Sen brushed elbows with the now infamous couple at the State Dinner. "I remember thinking that Mrs. Salahi looked very pretty in her sari," Sen wrote, "but a little unsure about what to do with so much drapery...
...what does being a State Dinner crasher get you? Subpoenaed, apparently. In light of today's congressional hearing looking into the antics of the now infamous Salahis, Flyby talked to Harvard's very own History Professor Emma Rothschild and her husband Professor of Economics and Philosophy Amartya Sen who were two of the lucky few to get an invite to the first State Dinner of the Obama administration...