Oil briefly falls below $50 per barrel
Hurray! Does this mean that the war is working now?

MySpace hit with online predator suits
With any luck, a hit to the pocket-book will encourage the site to do something about online predators. But then they’ll probably have to deal with a lawsuit from Chris Hansen for killing the only story he knows how to cover.

Baseball owners get warning on steroids
The politicians are starting to get mad about this. If there’s no material improvement on the steroids issue, why they might just issue another warning!

Methodists: No Bush library at SMU
Clearly, this is the worst threat to Bush’s legacy as President.

Lindsay Lohan checks into rehab
It shouldn’t be news when a celebrity checks into rehab. It should be news when the actually manage to stay in rehab. With Hollywood recovery, like Hollywood marriages, the first time doesn’t count.

Colbert to be honored at comedy fest
At this point, Colbert has crawled so far up his own conceit that there’s not telling which one of his personalities will be there to accept the award. Watch for Philip K. Dick to come back from the dead and pen the acceptance speech, since he’s the only one skilled enough to wade through the various layers of imagination and reality here.

Columnist Art Buchwald dies at age 81
One of the few things Art did that wasn’t funny.