Right-wing blowhard Bob Novak, muttering that “this is bullshit” walked off the set of CNN’s “Inside Politics” Thursday and may have walked out of his career at the cable news channel. CNN, calling Novak’s childish display “inexcusable and unacceptable,” suspended the lackluster columnist indefinitely. “We’ve asked Mr. Novak to take some time off,” CNN...
Russell L. Long (no, not one of the Lousiana Longs) claims he found maggots in his milk at a Denny’s Restaurant and the restaurant offered a settled of $12,500, which his lawyer accepted but which Long claimed he never gave authorization to accept. He wanted a million bucks. Too bad, a judge said, ordering...
President Bush is off on another vacation (even though some think his brain has been on vacation for years). He plans to be gone for five weeks which will break Richard M. Mixon’s 30-year-old record for the longest Presidential vacation. David Letterman had some choice things to say about Dubya’s plans: “President Bush is...
President Bush’s decision to appoint embattled John Bolton as UN Ambassador as a recess appointment sets up a showdown with Congress when the boys and girls return next month from their August recess. Whatever happens won’t be pretty. The partisan sniping has already begun and Bush will have only himself to blame when the...
Jane Fonda’s back on the antiwar circuit, planning a tour this time in a veggie-oil powered bus. This comes not long after she her not-very-convincing apology for her incredibly stupid trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam war, the one that galvanized mainstream American resentment against the antiwar movement. Newsday columnist Sheryl McCarthy is correct...
TV Guide, the longtime ultimate source for what’s on TV tonight, is getting a makeover and cutting back on its listings on shows. “It’s a shame. It’s the passing of a part of television history,” says Stephen Hofer, 65, a professor of media at Chicago State University who owns most of the 2,731 editions...