Also, for inane comment Friday. Turns out Sarah Palin and I will both be in the same city and state. I need something to say to her should I run into her. I am a notorious choker in the face of celebrity, so its gotta be hilarious, but pithy. Mostly pithy.

Also, I don’t want to be jailed. Grange assures me I don’t want to be in a Midwestern jail.

Father Keith Fennessy had first agreed to sell the old building to the Muslim American Society, but the deal sparked community protests and the pastor, who signed a contract, withdrew his support.

Many residents from Midland Beach will be happy to hear – some took to the streets to keep the mosque from coming to their neighborhood.

“We just want to leave our neighborhood the way it is – Christian, Catholic,” one resident said.

“The city has had enough terrorism and everything else,” resident Debbie Benson said. “We just don’t want to take the chance, and they can’t prove to us otherwise.”

LIMBAUGH: I got two more stories in the stack today about how black unemployment is through the roof. Black unemployment is terrible. The black frame of mind is terrible, they’re depressed, they’re down — Obama’s not doing anything for ‘em. How is that hoax and change workin’ for ya? They’re all livid. I mean, they thought there were gonna be an exact 180-degree economic reversal and it’s done nothing but get bad for everybody, but they’re especially upset about it because they look at him as one of them, and now they feel abandoned. And I’m sure Tiger Woods’ choice of females not helping ‘em out with their attitudes there either.

I would delve into the subject further, but I am so crushed about Tiger’s choice of women, I must go take pills.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. It’s a fucking joke, but you know what I meant.

I think white people should boycott.

For just a moment, even with their extra heft and greyer hair, it was easy to recall the most famous time Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore appeared together, campaigning across the country in 1992 as the Democratic candidate for president and vice president. It was a ticket that seemed to challenge political wisdom — two men, both relatively young, both from the South, both moderates — and seemed to augur a new chapter in American politics.

On the campaign trail, and later in the White House, the two men and their spouses were friends: Sharing a bus and jokes and warm embraces, Mr. Gore introducing Mr. Clinton at every stop of the way, feeding off each other’s riffs and energies. Perhaps inevitably, by the end of Mr. Clinton’s second term that relationship had turned into an estrangement, a bitter endnote to their eight years together in Washington.

Americans call that Thursday and watch 30 Rock on TV.
USA USA USA USA USA

JERUSALEM – Pages from an Israeli astronaut’s diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.

The diary belonged to Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut and one of seven crew members killed when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. Part of the restored diary will be displayed at the Israel Museum beginning Sunday.

UNITED NATIONS – Michael Douglas had to field questions Wednesday about the financial turmoil shaking world markets from reporters recalling his role in the 1987 film “Wall Street.”

The actor sought to focus on the subject of Wednesday’s news conference — urging the United States and eight other holdout nations to ratify a nuclear test ban treaty.

I think Laura and Jenna Bush are hiding in my guest bathoom. She doesn’t her father to find her and make her marry that guy. Thereeeee iiinnnn thhheeererere!

He evidently died on my birthday exactly 356 years* before I was born.

*I did the math myself, so give or take 112 years