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Love him, hate him, serve him straight or on the rocks, come hell or high water the mumbling cowboy will be with us until January ’09 – plan accordingly: A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll Friday through Monday shows that Bush’s courting of conservative Republicans and the brightening picture for economic growth …

Wasn’t a man named “Earl Scruggs” just born to play the banjo? Yesterday was the bluegrass great’s 80th birthday, and his friends threw a party: Scruggs, whose three-fingered approach to playing the instrument is credited by many with giving bluegrass music its distinctive sound, accepted a banjo-shaped cake and watched …

It’s 10 degrees here this morning, so it’s time to think about baseball. I am very excited that ex-Indian Dennis Eckersley made it into the Hall of Fame on the his first ballot: what more could he have done? maybe this will help break the prejudice against relievers, who are …

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes generate a reevaluation of Lionel Richie, and stuff.

What is up with the old men and the toot? We’ve got George Clinton getting busted in December with cocaine and a crack pipe, and now the chief medical examiner for Kalamazoo County has told the Kalamazoo Gazette that Bobby Hatfield’s death was triggered by acute cocaine intoxication: Hatfield, 63, …

Martha is looking a bit haggard these days. I have never much enjoyed Martha Stewart as a “performer,” so I think that has biased me against her as a person. As jury selection begins, the charges against her strike me as very dubious: Filling out the questionnaires marked the beginning …

American Idol 1 winner Kelly Clarkson reacts poorly to finishing second on World Idol: STUNNED “American Idol” champ Kelly Clarkson (news) abruptly left the set of “World Idol” New Years’ night after fans snubbed her in favor of a gap-toothed plumber from Norway. Clarkson, who had been favored to win …

I hate Pete Rose – always have, probably always will. I hate the whole “Charlie Hustle,” “anything at any cost to win” crap. I hate the fact that he plowed into Ray Fosse and basically ruined his career in a freaking All Star game. I hate his selfishness and his …

(note fertility dance by Mars Exploration Rover Team members) NASA’s Spirit Rover is checking out its neighborhood on Mars, but so far no babes: NASA’s Spirit Rover is starting to examine its new surroundings, revealing a vast flatland well suited to the robot’s unprecedented mobility and scientific toolkit. “Spirit has …

Never thought I’d be comparing Crocodile Steve and Michael Jackson, but it seems the old croc hunter lost his fucking mind as surely as did Michael with the baby dangle. Having a three-week-old son myself, I feel particularly inclined to feed Steve to something: Steve Irwin outraged child welfare groups …