Michelle Obama, Oprah, Adam Lambert and more stars on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for her birthday….

Barbara Walters interviews the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009 including Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert….

Apparently, if you search for Michelle Obama in Google images, the first thing that appears is not a likeness of the First Lady, but instead an extremely offensive and racist picture. First of all, we suggest you refrain from searching. The picture that comes up is not of Michelle Obama. To put it bluntly: It’s a picture of a monkey with earrings. But even more disturbing than the image itself is the fact that it shows up as the first picture on a major search engine. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like there is too much that Google can or will do. Last week, when the image first appeared on…

“[H]e ripped the president for having ‘an out-of-this-world ego,’ for being ‘very narcissistic,’ ‘immature, inexperienced, in over his head.’ (Isn’t immaturity scoring OxyContin from your maid?) It gives new meaning to pot, kettle and black.” [ NYT ]

Yesterday we noted that female bloggers are frequently subject to comments about their sex lives. Of course, this happens to women in old media as well — as evinced by one conservative writer’s vicious and lame takedown of Maureen Dowd . At issue here (ostensibly) is the sports-heavy culture of the Obama White House . American Spectator Editor-in-Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell , Jr. is no big fan of Obama , but he does want to defend the President against “ladies” who have the nerve to roll their eyes at an all-male White House basketball game and a general atmosphere of sports fandom. Criticizing the woman who told the Times “that her relative indifference to athletics could be mildly alienating,” he writes, Would it have helped if the President had invited this troubled …