Who knew balancing the budget could be this much fun?!!?
- President Bush has learned the lessons of the Vietnam war, and now plans to educate all Americans by repeating those mistakes in Iraq.
- Sya-Nuri Al-Maliki?
- The governor's answer to Florida's budget shortfall: Vegas-style casino gambling!
- Cops working as agent provacateurs at a Quebec protest rally get sniffed out by the crowd, filmed and run off by one of the protest's organizers.
- Vermont: The #1 state in the union for naked people. Could this be why it's the only state Bush hasn't visited yet?
- An interesting, sobering and scary look at the disconnect between wages and home prices over the last few decades. Stick around for the comparisons between the U.S. and Japan.
- The end of the road for The Rolling Stones?
- The Texas Rangers score 30 runs in one game, the most in professional baseball in 110 years, and the Devil Rays weren't the opponent? Inconceivable!
One Day Only! A Short List Special Supplemental TV Section:
- An O'Really? Factor crew staking out a Tampa judge's house gets shooed away by the cops.
- Speaking of Fox News: Documentary filmmaker/Liberal agitator Robert Greenwald is back with a new short film comparing the conservative news network's treatment of Iran with their treatment of Iraq in the run-up to war in 2003.
- Shocker! Professional news anchorwomen are none-too-pleased with Fox's new "chicks in bikini's try to read a teleprompter" reality TV offering, Anchorwoman.
- Head-scratcher alert: Janeane Garofalo is joining Keifer on 24.
- CBS to air Kid Nation, a reality show featuring 40 kids sent to the New Mexico desert for 40 days to run a town with no adult supervision. What could go wrong?
- A ventriloquist wins America's Got Talent, causing a paradox that threatens to destroy the TV universe!
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2007.