THE DAILY BLADE: The Last One To Pelt Dan Rather Is A Rotten Egg
In September and October CBS will again be laying eggs over its fall TV offerings – apparently on purpose this time. No eggsaggeration: Some 35 million chicken ova will be sporting the trademark CBS eye, or the logos of other shows. The New York Times reports that the eggs will also be imprinted with such eggsceptionally eggsciting slogans as: “CSI” (“Crack the Case on CBS”); “The Amazing Race” (“Scramble to Win on CBS”); and “Shark” (“Hard-Boiled Drama.”). The eggscruciating puns for its Monday night comedy lineup include: “Shelling Out Laughs,” “Funny Side Up” and “Leave the Yolks to Us.”
Rather than egging CBS on in this eggstraordinary eggsample of eggstreme marketing, The Stiletto eggspressly requests that the MSM corporation undertake an eggshaustive eggsamination of eggsactly where those fake National Guard memos came from, and eggsposes the wrongdoer who eggsploited the credulity of its most seasoned journalists and producers. Or does the eggsessive anti-Bush bias ingrained in the CBS News operation make this an eggsercize in futility?
Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That …
During the Q&A portion of a Republican-sponsored forum, two of four candidates hoping to unseat AZ governor
"She's never been married. She never had kids,"
Later, when answering a question about a proposed ballot measure on marriage,
"She's never been married. She's never had children. I don't think she ever will," he said of Napolitano, who has so far declined to take a position on the marriage amendment.
After the audience tittered,
The third Republican candidate, Don Goldwater, wisely kept his mouth shut about Napolitano’s private life, as well as about his potential rivals’ snarky comments. And though the fourth candidate,
In related news, for some reason
In a long article, Winfrey, 52, and King converse about their 30 years of friendship and "four-times-a-day phone calls." King, who hosted "The Gayle King Show" in 1997, is an editor of O, the
The two friends say they would have no problem telling the public if they were in a sexual relationship.
Meanwhile, the New York Post’s inimitable Cindy Adams reports that in an interview for the “invitation only” e-mail nightlife/leisure magazine, UrbanDaddy, actor Ed Burns – model Christy Turlington’s hubby and star of the newly released film, “The Groomsman” – observes that, “Single guys still move in packs. When you get married, you lose your pack mentality. … Single women can have a kind of angry look..."
Well, The Stiletto thinks you’d look kinda angry, too, if a pack of single men assumes you are lesbian just because you’re still waiting for your Prince Charming to reveal himself (or his intentions) – especially if, as a result, your ovaries are unlikely to squeeze out a new generation of Charmings when “some day” has finally come.
You Gotta Be In It (The Voting Booth, That Is) To Win It
Speaking of AZ, a “semiretired ophthalmologist” and “political gadfly” who has a law degree is promoting a November ballot initiative that would award a cool $1 million in each general election to one lucky voter chosen by lottery.
If the general election in 2004 is a guide, when more than 2 million people voted, the 1-in-2-million odds of winning the election lottery would be far better than the Powerball jackpot (currently about 1 in 146,107,962) but not nearly as great as dying from a lightning strike (1 in 55,928).
Critics gripe that voting is a civic duty, and the measure amounts to nothing more than a bribe. At least one law school professor thinks the proposal is illegal, because it appears to flout an existing state law banning the exchange of a vote for money.
As with the marriage amendment, Gov.
For her part, The Stiletto thinks AZ voters would be better served if the governor raised unemployment insurance compensation for workers in this “right to work” state. The highest payout possible for a “knowledge economy” worker (that is to say, highly educated) is a paltry $214 per week after taxes, less than half of what residents of New York and New Jersey get. Any wonder why all the talent heads out of state?
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