Joey Buttafuoco is not considered a "local boy" in Sayville. He's from Massapequa, hometown of the Baldwins and Jerry Seinfeld, and his auto body shop was in Baldwin. Sayville is not really that geographically close to Massapequa or to Baldwin. People who live on Long Island (or Lawn Guylint, as we like to say) don't think of the island as one big hometown. There's a lot of regional rivalry, in fact, North Shore vs South Shore, Nassau vs Suffolk, East End vs "UpIsland" and on the East End, there's North Fork vs South Fork.

And Sayville is the town where people have been catching the ferry for Cherry Grove and the Pines, the two largest gay communities on Fire Island, for decades. The town isn't exactly wowed by celebrities, as they've been seeing all kinds of celebrities heading for the ferry for years, and there's the added bonus of knowing who's in the closet. Stephen Baldwin's celebrity ranking in Sayville probably hovers around that of all the local weathermen and slightly less than that of the network anchors who catch the ferries for Fire Island. I mean, who would you rank higher? Stephen Baldwin or Carson Kressley? No contest. Kressley is nicer and better-looking than Baldwin (that skin!), not to mention Kressley has actually worked in the entertainment industry lately.

Anyway, you're probably thinking I live in Sayville, but I don't and never have. I have friends all over the Guylint and some of these towns are very different from others. I'm in Southampton right now, for example, which is quite different from Massapequa (and a lot deader at night).

I'm sure you were dying to know all this.

was just another in a long list of acts committed by people who simply have to make 9/11 all about them.

God chose for those terrorists to hit the towers so that Stephen Baldwin would see the light. And so he might start a new career as an evangelical. Since Rudolph Giuliani, Bernard Kerik and a host of others have made 9/11 their special cash cow after it gave a stiffy to their own fading careers, why shouldn't Stephen Baldwin benefit, too? After all, five years later it seems there is infinite fake glory to be had from the events of that September morning.

Will we have to go to Comedy Central's Daily Show site and pay in order to view previously aired segments?

Well, no.

It doesn't.

You're right.

BUT ....

it does have a really good plan for blaming it on Clinton.

Cut it out.

I'm a menopausal parent of an 8 year old. I am mortified at the amount of crying I do these days. I just watched the Who documentary "The Kids Are Alright" and burst into tears at the sight of impossibly young Roger Daltrey, baby-faced Keith Moon, Pete Townshend without sunken eyes and John Entwhistle before the beard. How could it have been 40 years ago? How can Moon have so deteriorated in a scant 10 years, and be dead now for almost 30 years?

And now this essay. Are you trying to kill me? I'm not even at the pre-teen years and I am seeing the past in flashes already when I glimpse a dad who picks up a four year old who comes running at him with a face-splitting happy-grin. I turn my head instinctively when I hear a small voice call "Mommy!" in the supermarket. I get so teary when I hear about how they change overnight and become these people who can't remember a time when they'd never dream of crossing the street without holding your hand.

Don't even get me started about hearing John Lennon singing "Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans" to his boy.

Never dress nicely?

"Woodward never ponders the House of Saud/House of Bush family ties or the appropriateness of the father entrusting his son's education to a Saudi prince and its implications for U.S. policy".

Thank you, Mr Blumenthal. It's good to read this. Woodward isn't the only one who leaves this peculiar relationship unexamined. I can't tell you how many reviews/synopses of the book I have read which mention this little nugget in passing, but never examine the meaning of it. As soon as I read about Bandar's recurring role in "State of Denial," I thought "What the FUCK?"

George HW Bush, after being a Congressman, a CIA chief, a Vice President and then President of the United States doesn't know any American experts in geopolitics he can recommend to tutor his son? And George W Bush won't listen to Brent Scowcroft and untold other Americans who were in the Reagan and the Bush Sr. administrations, but he'll listen to a man who is the grandson of the King of Saudi Arabia, the son of a Crown Prince of a backwards, brutal dictatorship; the nephew of a man who controls the Saudi secret police and who has publicly stated Jews are responsible for 9/11? Bandar is also the husband of a woman who financially supported members of the 9/11 hijacking crew while they were in the United States. And he is given the task of tutoring someone in the art of being an American president

Again, I have to ask - what the FUCK?

I don't blame the Bushes. They are craven, immoral opportunists and have been for generations. It's no surprise they behave like craven, immoral opportunists. It's ordinary Americans I blame. They want so badly to be able to sit on their porches and have a beer with George W Bush, they'll close their eyes to anything.