The Snob Talks Secret Service Servicing Sex Workers, Shacking Up and the Marriage of Brangelina on NPR

Unrelated ... yet apropos.The Snob returned to NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin for a stop in the Beauty Shop segment to talk about the recent sex scandal involving Secret Service agents and US military staff in Colombia, a recent story on how shacking up isn't always an indicator of "marriage material" and a brief bit on Brangelina getting married for the kids. I was joined in the Beauty Shop with regulars Mary Kate Cary, Viviana Hurtado and newcomer PG Media's Bridget Johnson.

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And When The Birthers Came for Marco Rubio I Wrote This Blog Post

The Rubio family on the day Marco Rubio was sworn into office by Vice President Joe Biden. (Via Marco Rubio's Senate web site)Cuban American Senator and rumored potential Mitt Romney running mate Marco Rubio found himself in the clutches of "birthers" this week, who claim Rubio's family immigration story doesn't make sense. Their accusation is, that Rubio -- who has repeatedly stated his parents came to America after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba -- isn't a "Natural Born Citizen." Hence, he's ineligible for higher office. Unlike with the birther's case against President Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii to an American mother hence (duh) making him American, Rubio's "status" as a natural born citizen is up for (mis) interpretation: "Rubio was born in 1971 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, his office said, but his parents did not become citizens until 1975."

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Ten Percent of D.C. 8th Graders Have Considered, Attempted Suicide

About 400 eighth graders in Washington, D.C. public schools claim to have tried to kill themselves, according to a recent middle school survey reported in The Washington Post. That's 10 percent of the district's 4,000 eighth grade students. The WaPo says D.C.'s teenage suicide rate has consistently been almost twice the national average, which is around 6 percent. Administrators say this reflects the bleakness many area teens face, dealing with real world stressers while navigating public school.

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End-of-the-Year Media Shuffle Feat. TJ Holmes, Star Jones

It's December! Meaning now is the time to get dumped, hired, fired, move on or be replaced. It's time for some winter house cleaning before the new tax year starts. What's going down in medialand for the end of 2010? Larry King's leaving. But you already knew that. This column is for everyone else. Your John Robertses and your TJ Holmeses and your Star Joneses. Your other folks. Which, you know, gives me a perfectly good excuse to put up yet another picture of Holmes after ending my "Google Stalking TJ Holmes" feature last spring when he got married to that woman who was not me.

Life goes on. So who's staying and going?

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Clarence Thomas' Sexual Bidness Is All In the News Again Thanks to Ex-Ladyfriend Lillian McEwen

Lillian McEwen knows your business, Clarence. And she's TELLIN'!Did I wake up back in 1991? Or did Justice Clarence Thomas' wife drunk dial the wrong woman because ... ahem ... this woman named Lillian McEwen says she used to do all kinds of bad things to Clarence Thomas that I did not want to know about but is in The Washington Post today. Jaws, hit those floors! Heads, hit those desks! Hit dogs get to hollering! WHAT??? WAIT?!?!?!

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And Down Goes Fenty ...

"King" Fenty fell down and lost his office Tuesday as all the king's Michelle Rhees and all the king's frat brothers could not put the mayor back together again.

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has lost the Democratic primary, and therefore his re-election because the Republican party is a myth in the District. Fenty lost to D.C. Councilman Vincent Gray in Tuesday's vote. Fenty was down in the polls due to nearly everyone I know not wanting to vote for him. I don't know who was more passionate, my friend Savvy Broad who called the mayor "that boy" or every cab driver I encountered for nearly a month who lectured me on why I needed to vote Fenty out. The Washington Post has an in-depth and fascinating story on what went terribly, terribly wrong.

Short version: Dude was petty and short-sighted.

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The Power of the Black Woman Vote and DC's Adrian Fenty

Fool a black woman once, shame on you. And that's it. No fool me twice. She won't hate you; she just won't vote for you again.

-- Washington Post Metro columnist Courtland Milloy

Washington Post's Courtland Milloy wrote on Wednesday that after several high (and low) profile snubbings of black women in Washington, D.C. -- From Maya Angelou and civil rights icon Dr. Dorothy Height -- Mayor Adrian Fenty managed to tick off the one constituent who can make you or break you in a city where the black vote matters.

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GOP Senators Unsure About This Radical Thurgood Marshall Person

There are some things you expect to be controversial. Miley Cyrus kissing ladies. Wearing leggings to work. Whatever comes out of Sarah Palin's mouth this week. You know? Important stuff. But when did my fake grandfather Thurgood Marshall become some radical crazy person who wanted to enslave all white people? I'm confused? Was this before or after he and the NAACP sued the University of Missouri in the 1930s? Where's my copy of "Dream Makers, Dream Breakers?" I need a point of reference!

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Whoopsie! Washington Post Confuses Malcolm X With President Obama

As Keith Sweat once sang, "something, something, something, something just ain't right!" (Via Gawker)