"In showbiz, there is the term 'jumping the shark' that is used to describe a project in decline. It is derived from the hit sit-com 'Happy Days' which, sorely lacking for material after years on the air, featured a show wherein The Fonz went waterskiing in a leather jacket and encountered a shark. You guessed it: the Fonz jumped over the shark on the skis. After that, the days were not so happy on that program." READ MORE

At least half the mysterious but immense number of people who attended Saturday’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear didn’t see or hear one iota of the stage show, because there were way too many people crowding round a woefully insufficient number of speakers and Jumbotrons. But nobody seemed to mind too much about missing the show, because they were having so much fun comparing costumes and signs, and giggling together over how weird “this whole thing” was. The atmosphere as I roamed about the massive crowd was uniformly giddy all day long. READ MORE

Juan Williams had been warned. The move by NPR to terminate the contract of news analyst Williams has thrown the usual suspects into the expected histrionics of victimization. Karl Rove managed to keep a straight face when he went on Fox News and exclaimed "Shame on NPR" while actually wagging his finger. That Williams hasn't been challenged to specify what he meant by "Muslim garb" is just another journalistic failing in a human centipede of journalistic failings around this story. Williams' fear of Muslims (since overcome or not) as terrorists is not the problem; it's that he thinks he can easily identify "Muslim garb." (Anyway, as The LA Times' Meghan Daum pointed out, "Personally, when I see Muslim garb on an airplane I feel LESS nervous. The 9/11 hijackers were wearing Dockers.") Williams' real problem is that he made these comments on Fox News. For those appearances alone, his contract should have lapsed years ago. READ MORE

Not only are today's journalists TOTALLY GAY for Barack Obama, they're TOTALLY GAY in general, always wanting to know about your feelings and stuff. One thing's for sure: they're not MEN like Bill O'Reilly or Bernie Goldberg, who would totally beat each other up in some hypermasculine display of testosterone-fueled heterosexuality if one of them ever used the world "enchanted" to the other. These guys are so straight I bet they're not even wearing make-up.