I was just about to google Kitty Kelley when I thought I'd read the Letters to the Editor about this article. I thought "Wow, I had no idea Duke Cunningham was married to Kitty Kelley!" I decided to read the letters to see if someone had more information on their marriage.

...the Coors family is extremely powerful in Colorado and they are very good friends of the Bushes and the Cheneys. They hired Mary Cheney to be a professional lesbian shill for their beer corporation before Dick Cheney ran for VP and before Mary Cheney decided that being a lesbian was "too personal." Ah yes, back in the day it was OK for Mary Cheney to personally and publically profit from her homosexuality as the official Coors Beer Liaison to the Gay and Lesbian Community, wherein she toured gay bars and gay events across the US with "1999 International Mr Leather" on behalf of Coors Beer.

Then there's Colorado Springs, home to the greatest concentration of fundamentalist Christian activist groups in American history.

So maybe Rove himself wasn't in Colorado, but his and George W Bush's and Dick Cheney's good pals sure are.

He's running in Virginia.

You're supposed to be suspicious of the government. You should never have full confidence in them.

It's the media that is frightening. When I was growing up, the media were advocates for those without a voice. They documented bad conditions in government housing, they uncovered government fraud, they revealed consumer dangers and scams, they investigated politicians for bribe-taking, they concentrated on local news as well as national news and they weren't obsessed with one particular news story for weeks and months at a time. I mean geez, I grew up during the Son of Sam days and Son of Sam was only the daily headline if he shot someone or wrote a letter to the newspaper. He wasn't the number one story day after day.

Investigative reporting is dead. John Stossel is a prime example of what's wrong with the media today. He made his name documenting consumer fraud, then when he was famous enough to make deals, he became a paid spokesman for chemical corporations while still allowed to be an anchor for ABC News' 20/20. He boldly lied on television to discredit real consumer advocates and suffered no consequence. In fact, he was promoted.

It's the mainstream media that you should be most afraid of. They have abdicated their responsibilities and become nothing more than an arm of the K Street Project with pretty faces and sonorous voices.

"her (Harris's) clumsy overall performance as Florida's secretary of state. In that post she also gummed up filing fees for subsequent races, let the day to day work of the office slide and generally was incapable of explaining or understanding what was happening"

I don't get it. Sounds like she's the perfect person to be a Bush appointee or a Republican candidate. Why don't the Bushes want her?

"Terror Alert: All Planes Banned From Airports"

I can just see the CNN, Faux and the Big Three networks stone-facedly reporting this as grim but not unexpected news, as the terrorists will never stop trying to kill us for our freedoms. Like the freedom to travel.

What a premise - people an entire show with unpleasant characters who sit around a landscape of faux poverty discussing their bodily functions. Hey, it's the "Honeymooners," only without a scrap of humanity and with references to piss, shit, masturbation, fucking, sucking, belching and anything else that you really don't want to know about these characters or see them doing. Wowsa.

"Richard Armitage, a well-known gossip who loves to dish and receive juicy tidbits about Washington characters"

"Armitage, who is known to be an inveterate gossip--was only conveying a hot tidbit"

"a well-known gossip and moderate opponent of Bush policy in the Middle East"

"Armitage was a gossip, seems to have inadvertently slipped the info to Novak"

Let's all play the "Armitage? Everyone knows he's a big ole gossip queen!" game. It's fun and it's the in-thing to do this week.

Funny how "gossipmonger" has never been a part of Armitage's bio before. Let's see... Vietnam veteran, Defense department/Pentagon honcho, foreign policy advisor, counterterrorism expert, Middle East mediator, special emissary to the King of Jordan, ambassador in Europe, oh... and looky here...signer of the PNAC letter to Bill Clinton.

Doesn't sound like someone who's "not a partisan gunslinger" to me. And nope.. no mention of "inveterate gossip." Also, further investigation shows Armitage to have been a "import/export business owner in Bangkok." Sounds like a CIA cover to me. I'll just bet Mr Armitage, that rascally gossip, knows a thing or two about CIA cover.

Prices continue to climb. It is taking longer to sell, because so many people have rushed their houses to the market, afraid that there will be a crash. But prices have not come down in general. The only people who are reducing their asking prices are those who were asking unrealistic prices, and they are the same people who had to reduce their home prices during the "boom."

I wish there was a bust. As someone who sold high last year and moved into my summer home, from whence I daily check the real estate market in an area consisting of about 100 miles around where I am (in the northeast), I would love to get a bargain townhouse in a particular suburban area nearer to my spouse's place of work. But it ain't happening. Right now, those townhouses are asking about $150,000-$200,000 more than they sold for a few years ago, and they're selling briskly.

That is today's big media/politico story. It was burning up the internets yesterday, too. Am I missing Salon's coverage of this story? Because I don't see it anywhere. Screw Katie Couric. Did you expect her to do anything but Bush-smooch during her CBS weeklong debut?