"Sheryl Crow should eat crow. The save-the-environment rocker who's on a "Stop Global Warming College Tour" with Laurie David and just proposed a limit on toilet paper usage is a big gas-guzzler. Her performance rider demands for each show include three tractor trailers, four buses and six cars for her entourage, TheSmokingGun.com reports. She also insists on 12 bottles of Grolsch beer, six bottles of "local" beer and a bottle each of "good Australian Cabernet" and "good Merlot." Crow's flack said the rider was "an old one from 10 years ago" but declined to show us a current one."  -Page Six, New York Post

(I'd be willing to bet that her demands have grown, not diminished...)

Rich Little was a snooze-fest over-reaction to Colbert. There's a high comedy-price for not offending anybody, and the audience sure paid it this year. Thank goodness for Letterman's "Top Ten Bush moments" (but even then, #4 where Bush goes for the 2 locked doors and then stands at attention grinning & waiting for his Chinese hosts to rescue him was the classic, IMO.)
JMR

contrary - of course no one admits to being influenced by them, but we know that they are because they start saying the same wacky things.

"Don’t you have better things to do"

I am sure if you did, you would be doing them.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

I recall an interview with Sting. He was asked whether all his activism in South America made sense, since the dictators he was challenging certainly didn't care about him. Sting answered that it's true, the dictators don't listen to him ... and then he slyly looked into the camera ... "but their kids do."

When Sting uses his music to save rainforests, we cheer him. But when celebrities use that same subconscious power to undermine rational conversation, we need to address it. In a country where a few thousand votes decided the last two presidential elections, every vote counts. When these celebrities pop off, maybe they don't convince anyone intelligent, but that's only part of the story. In this country, we count every vote, even from the dull and ignorant. By definition, stupid people are easily swayed by shallow arguments. That's why we need to address, fairly but firmly, every manipulation from the Whacko Left.

Sure, I'd love to ignore fools and only worry about the smart liberals. There are plenty out there, by the way. I know some of them. They're much more fun to deal with. But since these lightweight celebrities sway as many people as the heavyweights, we need to respond to them as well.

As Bush has already declared that some future president will inherit the mess in Iraq, it would be fitting that a Republican takes the office. Then we can have a continuity of failed policy, more deaths and loss of treasure without cutting and running. Besides, the billion dollar embassy in Baghdad won't be finished until Bush leaves office, so we can finally get the infrastructue in place, up and running!