Last week, I looked through the White House staff salaries list hoping to find Kal Penn somewhere in there.  I was confused when I couldn’t locate his name, but now I learn he is starting today.  His title: Associate Director in the Office of Public Engagement

 

I’m sure Penn will be an interesting addition to the staff.  He has played in a number of critically-unacclaimed films, such Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.  If you’ve seen these, you must wonder how he survived the vetting process.

 

Though there was this great poetry reading after he smoked weed with “President Bush:”