
This is an odd story, the
mysterious disappearance of an SNL sketch on the Bailout. Since
$700 billion is pretty big doin's, naturally the Lampooners in Chief wanted to get in on the action — regardless of whether Congressional hearings/press conferences lend themselves to comedy (uh, they don't.) The sketch trained a carefully pointy eye on the
possible Democratic roots of the Bailout plan.
Why then has the sketch, which skewered everyone from the 99th richest person in the world,
George Soros to philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, disappeared?

With the
Lunch Bucket vs.
Barracuda match up a hair over 24 hours away, the sassy, classy debate moderator Gwen Ifill has found her plate full of more than just prepping questions. Ifill, the PBS news maven and moderator of Washington Week,
broke her ankle on Monday, though her doctor has given her the A-OK to travel and keep her debate duties.

Earlier this summer at a charity flag-football game thrown by Allen Iverson, Josh Howard (these men are all basketball players, apparently) made a
derisive comment about the national anthem that has tipped off a storm of controversy. I wasn't familiar with this gentleman prior to this story but his message in the video is loud and clear: when the video pans to him during the singing of the anthem, Howard says:The 'Star-Spangled Banner' is going on. I don't celebrate this sh**.

The angelic-faced cherub singing with a voice from heaven during the opening ceremony of the Olympics really only had one piece of that puzzle: Lin Miaoke, the 9-year-old who was featured performing "Ode to the Motherland" while fireworks flared and 1 billion people watched was pulling one of the oldest tricks in the book. She was lip-synching the song.
And not just to ensure a flawless performance in case nerves or the wires interfered with her singing — she lip-dubbed
because she was cuter than the girl who owned the voice.