Making Colbert go away

Making Colbert go away
The docile press corps was offended when Stephen Colbert dared to expose Bush's -- and their own -- feet of clay. But how to respond? Voil : "He wasn't funny."

State Dept. to send work of deceased Latino artist to the Venice Biennale
The U.S. Department of State made an announcement recently that warranted more media attention than it got. For the first time in more than 20 years, the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions has chosen a deceased artist -- Felix Gonzalez-...

Remainders: All Cruise, All the Time
OH MY GOD IT'S SO FUCKING AMAZING OH YEAH TOM CRUISE! You, too, can experience the joy of Tom, by watching the live webcast of him walking into the movie theater at 7pm. [Yahoo] An...

But Manhattan pop rock band Elefant needs to watch out for bears.
Life on the road can exact a steep physical toll on even the most seasoned bands -- those late nights, trashed hotel rooms, drink tickets and groupie interludes don't exactly promote robust health.

Blog Review: The Bastards of the Blogs
Irreverent and cute, it's hard to resist getting sucked in by The Bastards of the Blogs , and it's tempting to collect all seven Bastards, or however many Bastards the Bastards select as blogging bastards. The question remains, though, out of the current seven Bastards, which Bastard is the biggest Bastard of them all? Just days ago the Bastards introduced their seventh Bastard. Is she a

Ethics Crisis Blog Launched by SRF Global Translations, Specialists in Multilanguage Translations of Corporate
Ethics Crisis blog, http://www.ethicscrisis.com has been launched by SRF Global Translations. Ethics Crisis aggregates global news about business ethics, and allows visitors to make anonymous confessions about their business ethics transgressions and to rate the confessions of others. (PRWEB May 4, 2006)

Raytheon freezes CEO's pay over plagiarism flap
Raytheon Co.'s overseers today froze Chief Executive William Swanson's salary and cut his stock perks to register the board of director's "deep concern" over his cribbing...

Mixed Signals
May 3, 2006 A clarification about my Stephen Colbert post yesterday : I said I watched Stephen Colbert "bomb" at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night. That was not my opinion of his jokes... it was my description of the reception his performance received.

Doctors, students brush up on mumps
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Almost anyone born 50 or more years ago remembers the mumps, the cheek-swelling illness that used to sicken between 100,000 and 200,000 people a year in the United States.

GOOD MORNING LOWCOUNTRY
A bill introduced in the General Assembly last month would make the sale of sex toys in the state illegal.