An Air America Radio host's on-air claim that fellow host Randi Rhodes was mugged has been denied by the New York Police Department and the network. "There is absolutely no report filed," said a source at the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information office who asked not to be quoted by name. "There was no mugging."

I've never been a fan of Carlson, so take this for what it's worth. The man just had one of the worst weeks as a talk show host that I've ever had the misfortune to witness (until I couldn't stand any more and turned it off).

I can't bring myself to dive into the Rush Limbaugh nonsense about "phony troops." But I do find it verrry interesting that Limbaugh ("Pilonidal Pete"--see here if you don't get the reference) put this on his narcissistic collection of his own quotes today:

Could this become a habit for the more religious among the far far right in good old America? Seems that Dobson, Perkins, at al are once again making noise about running their own candidate for the presidency, since the Republicans so far have not knuckled under to their demands for a good old candidate of sufficient religious froth.

The head of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, William Poole, had a message for the folks at the European Economics & Financial Centre Conference in London on Sept. 6, 2007: not only has the US economy "clearly generated jobs to replace those lost because of imports," but the U.S. economy is at "full employment." And "Rather than being a sign of a weakening economy, the recent slowdown in the rate of job creation is almost certainly related to a slowing of labor force growth as the baby-boom generation reaches retirement age."

Pick the government snooping program that bothers you most: (a) warrantless surveillance; (b) Patriot Act sneak peeks at your reading habits; (c) the collection and coordination of vast amounts of personal data on travelers; (d) all the above, because the info obtained is in all likelihood being aggregated and coordinated so that there is little if any difference between the programs.

Kevin McCullough is in the business of trying to convince people that liberals "hate" a lot, especially Christians. Kevin McCullough posted this on his web site this very morning:

Is James Brolin (Mr. Babs) the most vomit-inducing, clueless, tasteless, stool sample ever to walk the planet?

After the children on the CBS reality TV series Kid Nation create their own government, it might not be an ally of the United States. Several of the contestants posted online profiles on the CBS web site that are highly critical of President Bush.

Not surprisingly at all, there is a lot of evidence that the White House, not to mention General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, were a little less than completely forthcoming, accurate, and complete in their recent attempts to portray Iraq's Anbar Province as a new beacon of hope, courtesy of the surge, that there is finally light at the end of the Iraqi tunnel.

What prompts the question is a small item about Richard Mellon Scaife's divorce, noting that the soon-to-be-ex is challenging Scaife's claim that all the money he loses on his Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper is a legitimate business expense. In the eyes of the wife, the paper is just a "hobby" and the lost money should be treated as part of the marital estate which has been used up by the Mister. And we're talking "$20 million to $30 million a year" in subsidy.

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