“Publishing” on The Daily Caller

Journalist David Weigel, who resigned from the Washington Post last month after a leaked-email controversy, is joining Slate as a political reporter. (more)

“If I sold it, my life would be over.” (more)

Little does he know, but Hef has a D.C. doppelganger: former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern.  While one sports the union bug and the other a Playboy bunny (or three), these big-time bosses have more than just gray hair in common. (more)

Hugh Hefner isn’t too old to play the stocks. The 84-year-old founder of Playboy Enterprises has announced that he’s willing to buy the $122 million worth of shares of the company that he doesn’t currently own in order to make the company private. Hefner hopes to buy the rest of the stock before rival company Penthouse Magazine has a chance to buy into the enterprise. (more)

Fresh on the heels of Independence Day, a fellow freelancer confided in me that he wasn’t sure this self-employed thing was all it’s cracked up to be. One, a demanding client had been giving him grief. Two, work he’d come to count on from a steady client seemed to be drying up. And three, he couldn’t remember the last time he’d gotten a raise, taken a Saturday off or shaved and showered before 6 p.m. (more)

Former pin-up Kendra Wilkinson’s life these days is more playtime than Playboy, but that suits the blond bombshell just fine. (more)

Yep, it’s her. Danielle Staub, the love-to-hate-her star of “Real Housewives of New Jersey” appears topless and wielding her own camera in stills from the sex tape being peddled by Hustler. The website TMZ.com posted an array of photos, naughty bits blocked out, showing a topless Staub smiling and posing for the camera, filming her partner with her own video camera, and in several shots, well, use your imagination. Most reports say that the Hustler is expected to release the 75-minute home video on Monday, although Huster’s website says the footage is coming tomorrow. (more)

Another “celebrity” sex tape is about to hit the market — and this time, the people distributing the footage claim the star is Danielle Staub from “Real Housewives of New Jersey.” (more)

Desiree Rogers, the former White House social secretary who left that job after a couple crashed a state dinner, has a new job in Chicago. (more)

The courtship was smooth. Glamour magazine approached dating site Match.com and within weeks they were readying the launch of Glamour Matchmaker, a dating service featuring men selected by the magazine’s staff from the sea of singles on Match.com. (more)

Sally Quinn, 68, third wife of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, 88, is profiled in July’s Vanity Fair as an overbearing social climber who has alienated the children from his previous marriages. (more)

Conservatives do not do the arts very well. (more)

Kendra’s first pay check for the soon-to-be-released sex tape is a massive $680,000, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively. (more)

NEW YORK—In the massive new Barnes & Noble superstore on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, generous display space is devoted to baby blankets, Art Deco flight clocks, stationery and adult games like Risk and Stratego. (more)

Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the infamous couple dubbed the White House Gatecrashers, are demanding the White House apologize to them for the embarrassing State Dinner fiasco last November. (more)

It has been only a week since Washington Post Co.’s chairman, Donald Graham, announced that Newsweek was on the block, but already a few big media players are taking an early look at the newsweekly. (more)

Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a centerfold jumped right off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef’s world. (more)

The Washington Post Co. announced Wednesday that it has retained Allen & Company to explore the possible sale of NEWSWEEK magazine. The newsweekly, which has struggled in recent years, was launched in 1933 and purchased by The Washington Post Co. in 1961. (more)

Oprah’s plans after Monday night’s glam Met Gala? (more)

Naomi Campbell burst into tears as she sat down for a heart-to-heart on TV with Oprah Winfrey. (more)