The Courtney Love of presidential pardons

"Which makes Mark Rich the Courtney Love of presidential pardons.

How's that? Hmmm...just like Courtney Love, Mark Rich also got away with financial murder and never served a single day in prison for it. Maybe it had something to do with Clinton's appreciation for his fellow unconvicted felon's last name: a super RICH white man who made his MARK on history by donating stacks of cash to a presidential library for a quid pro quo full pardon."
(July 3, 2007, Black Cat Bone)

The Dr. Doom of the credit crunch

"The bearish economist Nouriel Roubini, the Dr. Doom of the credit crunch, has been sharply critical of the federal government's bailouts of Fannie and Freddie and now A.I.G. He says that the Paulson & company are turning the United States into to the U.S.S.R.A. (the United Socialist State Republic of America)."
(Sept. 17, 2008, Portfolio)

The Iago of the past eight years

"In The Snowball, however, there is no mention of the Iraq invasion or of Donald Rumsfeld, and just three glancing references to George W. Bush – and the Iago of the past eight years, Dick Cheney, is only mentioned as attending a funeral. Alice Schroeder is a frank and fair writer, and her book is a suggestive contribution to a history of the American Way; but the people and ideas that she has excluded from her narrative are more significant even than her description of the Wigwam Café in Wahoo."
(Jan. 7, 2009, Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Online)

The Bruce Wayne of dogs

"In other dorky news, Mina and I decided that Akitas are the Bruce Wayne of dogs."
(Aug. 29, 2007, Livejournal)

The Papa Smurf of negative TV ads

"If you can stop shaking from the rage at fallen heroes being dishonored, then kick back with some manganese-rich malt liquor and check out the Papa Smurf of negative TV ads, the classic Daisy ad perpetrated by LBJ’s crew in the 1964 race:"
(July 21, 2006, Wonkette)

The Lewis and Clark of scumbag NBA owners

"The last "need" is easier said than done, as the Grizzlies would tell you -- owner Michael Heisley would leave treadmarks fleeing Memphis if he weren't tied to FedEx Forum through 2015. Then again, Hijack City owners McClendon and Clay Bennett showed us a nice blueprint for weaseling out of a lease in Seattle last year, a strategy best described as, "make up selfish reasons to leave, make your move, leave a trail of broken hearts, bastardize the integrity of the league, then make everything OK by just paying everyone off because the city will be greedy enough to accept a cash settlement right away over fighting you in court for the next six years." Thank you, fellas. You guys will be remembered as the Lewis and Clark of Scumbag NBA Owners."
(Bill Simmons, Feb. 27, 2009, ESPN.com)

The Joss Whedon of months

"In my part of the world, February is a trickster. Think of it as the Joss Whedon of months. (Ignore the part in parentheses if that last sentence confused you.)"
(Feb. 5, 2008, Mockingbird's Nest)