Baldwin, Paul
•release from prison of after serving one-year term for stealing a can of beer is quickly followed by another arrest of — the 153rd — for assault
Baron Cohen, Sacha
•Eminem’s face is landed on by bare butt of during MTV Movie Awards, leading to days of babble about whether or not the stunt had in fact been planned, which — DUH! — it had
Berlin, Alan David
•firing of from position as aide to Pennsylvania state senator famous for being tough on sex crimes after arrest of for propositioning a 15-year-old boy on the Internet and discussing having sex with him while wearing animal costumes
Blagojevich, Patti
•tarantulas are dined on by
Boyle, Susan
•loss of in Britain’s Got Talent finals is not taken well by
Breaking Bad
•airing of brilliant season finale of — ending with plane crash over Albuquerque — coincides with plunge of Air France jet into the Atlantic
Carradine, David
•details of the passing of are apparently not for the squeamish
Cheney, Dick
•blame for 9/11 is placed by on Richard Clarke, who repeatedly warned about the danger of such an attack
Cheney, Liz
•absurdly Orwellian insistence of that father of never sought to link Iraq to 9/11
Coleman, Norm
•imminent surrender of
Epstein, Marcus
•2007 assault on African-American woman — he stopped her on a Washington, D.C. street, uttered a racial slur, and karate-chopped her head — is pleaded guilty to by
Gallup
•shocking poll by reveals that “Republican base heavily white, conservative, religious” and “Democrats are more likely to be moderate or liberal, Hispanic, or black or other races”
Gibson, Mel
•church meltdown of
Jackson, Michael
•rage of
Jones, Diann
•email reference by to the White House as “the black house”
Kristol, Bill
•opinion of, shared by Brit Hume, that “it might be worth doing some targeted air strikes” against North Korea
Lambert, Adam
•closet that no sentient being ever believed to have been occupied by is nonetheless apparently about to be ostentatiously emerged from by
Leno, Jay
•nation is forced to endure 15 weeks without the toothless comedy of
Liddy, G. Gordon
•ignorance of female biology of — in particular, the usual timing of the onset of, and impact of, menopause — is proudly displayed by
Madoff, Bernard
•sons of are upset with
nuclear sites
•document containing detailed information about hundreds of around the country is erroneously published by federal government
Obama, President Barack
•assassination of is encouraged in personal ad that ran in, and was quickly apologized for, by Pennsylvania’s Warren Times Observer
•big deal is once again made about the public ordering and consumption of beef by, leaving observers to wonder how many times this has to happen before it receives as little notice as space launches
•Cairo speech goes unappreciated by Fox News anchors
•Cairo speech of is summed up by Liz Cheney as demonstrating eagerness of to deal with terrorists by “sort of hand-holding”
•excursion of to New York for dinner and a Broadway show is idiotically attacked as financially wasteful by Republican National Committee, which, if memory serves, registered no public concern about the cost to the public of George W. Bush’s 77 jaunts to the Texas boonies where he cut lots of brush, ran around and rode bikes in sweltering heat, and ignored various warnings of impending disasters
Olbermann, Keith
•sanctimonious self-righteousness of is undercut by complicity of in promoting Mancow’s waterboarding despite knowledge of that it was, in reality, a mere cheap stunt
O’Reilly, Bill
•claims by that past references of to George Tiller as “the baby killer” only reported what others were calling him are outright lies
•real victim in George Tiller murder turns out to be
Radnich, Gary
•sports scores are delivered on TV by while blood drips onto the shirt of
Salinger, J.D.
•legal proceedings are initiated by to prevent publication of unauthorized sequel to famous popular-with-assassins novel by
Scientology, Church of
•members of are banned by Wikipedia from editing any articles on the site because of their propensity to put a self-servingly positive spin on
Sessions, Sen. Jeff
•tears of 12-year-old boy facing prospect of his mother being deported elicits decidedly unsympathetic reaction — “Enough with the histrionics” — from
Spector, Phil
•last public appearance of in a crazy fright-wig until at least 2028
suicide
•commission of by 11 reality show participants
•rate of may be increasing because of the economy, but it’ll be years before we can be sure
•ridiculous Marilyn Manson says he’d commit if he “had the integrity,” but if he did, he’d kill “a hundred other people” first
Taylor, Koko
•passing of
Terry, Randall
•brutal segue by
Tiller, George
•accused killer of complains of “being treated as a criminal”
