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…but this one’s LIVE.
Yes, it’s confusing. But I’ll explain. Next Thursday, the 9th of October, anyone in the New York area can come see “Irwin Smalls Presents: a live pilot.” It’ll be at the wonderful Ars Nova Theater, 511 West 54th Street at 8PM. It’s free.
Now, what is it? […]

Condoleezza Rice says she knows nothing about those leaks that dangerously exposed an undercover CIA agent as retribution for a spouse’s statements. Those darn White House underlings! Always making unauthorized calls to the press, inserting lies into the State of the Union speech, organizing oxford shirt riots at the election centers… those scamps […]

Like a lot of voters, I was disheartened that the Democratic candidate’s debate took place here in New York with a native candidate missing from the ranks. I can only assume that some party insiders thought that I had enough advantages already and wanted to get the other candidates a little more exposure. […]

UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An eagerly awaited U.S. inquiry is expected to report finding “documentary evidence” that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons programs but no proof of actual arms, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
A darkened screen. Sad, slow ragtime piano music begins to play. Titles appear: […]

There might be slightly less Fanatical Apathy in the coming weeks, dear hearts. Now, now, don’t weep - I’m not abandoning you. It’s just that today (Tuesday) I began shooting an independently-produced television pilot.
It’s not certain to ever reach your screens, of course. But the role was hard to turn down - […]

President Bush will address the UN on Tuesday, seeking international assistance in cleaning up the mess we found in Iraq (”It was like that when we got there…”).
This should be easy. If, that is, we get an appearance by Bushus humbillius, the soft-spoken creature that campaigned for the presidency in 2000. That Bush would […]

I’ve received a barrage of emails (well, two or three) concerning this weekend’s “Wait Wait.” Particularly, you wanted to know about my story for the Bluff the Listener round, wherein I claimed that a TV writer had worked all seven of George Carlin’s notorious Forbidden Words into a single line of dialogue. “Where […]

If you’ve been watching the news today, you’ve been treated to hour after hour of soggy reporters dodging flying plywood in the midst of Hurricane Isabel. That’s pretty much it. Today’s news network game-plan is to cut between various correspondents, each of whom is experiencing more or less the same amount of Nature’s […]

From Reuters: “Bush Backs Air Force Plan to Lease Boeing Aircraft”
President Bush backed a controversial Air Force plan to lease Boeing Co. 767 aircraft as refueling tankers despite criticism from Congress, according to an interview published on Wednesday…
It also asked Rumsfeld to justify the decision to pay $10.3 million […]

Four-star General Wesley Clark announced his presidential intentions today, which can only mean one thing:
The Republican Smear Machine is about to cranked up to “eleven.”
It’s going to be a challenge: Clark is smart, articulate, funny, brave, and well-liked. His ability to make George Bush look like craven weasel might be second only to… […]