Smarmy insult slinger Don Imus is out at MSNBC and CBS Radio. The straw that broke the camel's back -- tossing a combined racial and sexual insult at a group of young women, many of them still teenagers, who had just completed a Cinderella season -- has been well covered, as has Imus' long history of saying things equally nasty.

Okay, this is just a question, and it's based on an assumption or two, so take it for what it's worth: Does Karl Rove's claim that he thought the RNC was archiving all his e-mails make sense, given the fact that Rove was investigated in the Valerie Plame affair?

The comments made by and subsequent firing of Don Imus by MSNBC and CBS Radio have exposed the media for the sideshow it really has become. In a world with better things to report, everyone is talking about Imus.

New Hampshire, the only state without a mandatory seat belt law, seems on track to narrowly pass one.

Does it make sense to dismantle a system of 26 technical libraries essential to research on the environment in order to save $1.5 million from a more-than-$8 billion budget?

Everyone has heard that the gap between rich and poor is rapidly growing in this country. Alan Greenspan of all people has said that the very nature of democratic society is threatened by the phenomenon. So what would the wealthy, those winners in the inequality sweepstakes, do to combat the potential backlash from the vast majority of Americans who are the losers in this sweepstakes? Rationalize, of course; rationalize, rationalize, defend, defend and deny.

The new owners of Air America Radio have demoted host Sam Seder to a Sunday timeslot, replacing his weekday morning show with an existing program from another syndicated network.

Once a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq, the U.K.'s The Economist magazine has really changed its mind.

Corporate profits. If you live in a capitalist society, there are few subjects closer to financial godliness. But now, even in the midst of the most pro-corporte business environment since the 19th century, the news on corporate profits is getting shaky.

When I'm wrong, I'm big enough to admit it. I received quite a few emails from listeners of American Indian descent regarding some comments I made recently. Those comments were intended to spark a discussion on how we view past transgressions against American Indians as compared to those against Blacks in America. I intended to challenge policies, and not to demean or insult any group of people.

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