Watch the don't-call-it-the-State-of-the-Union with me. 8:00: How come there are already 43 comments? The thing hasn't started yet! I suppose you guys are really excited about this. Nancy Pelosi has her olive-green sweatshirt on. I've chosen CBS... Katie Couric is obviously reading from a script. 8:...

By now, you've learned that Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was confirmed as a steroid user. The resulting stigma will damage his place in pro baseball history, and many fans were frustrated by the fact he only confessed after allegations surfaced last week. It was a 180 from his answer to Katie Cour...

The Feds, the fans, or whoever wants to know about the real story of steroids in baseball should look no further than Jose Canseco’s tell-all tomes, “Juiced” and “Vindicated”. Start there, take the newly released BALCO records as your proof and let the chips fall where ...

On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid touted a new CBS News poll that portrayed Barack Obama as being more bipartisan on the current "stimulus" spending bill being debated in Congress, than Republicans: "The new CBS News poll shows 81 percent of Americans think the...

When Jennifer Aniston feels sentimental, she plays her old Brad Pitt phone messages. When Guy Ritchie feels sentimental, he does gay karaoke. When Marc Jacobs feels sentimental, he screws rentboy-style, outside. Remember when rumors about a straight star in a gay bar were undesirable for the celebri...

Lil Wayne sat down with Palin-killer Katie Couric for a Baba Wawa-style pre-Grammy interview that aired last night. Nothing earth-shattering came out of it, and Lil Wayne's charm almost made me forget the fact that his upcoming rock atrocity hangs over us all like that brown cloud near Denver. Couri...

It's pretty sad that President Obama seems to be the only Democrat making the case for the economic stimulus and pushing back against the GOP attacks against it: Couric: Sen. Mitch McConnell said over the weekend that surely you're privately embarrassed by some of the product that came out of the ho...

Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, Evening News anchor Katie Couric discussed her White House interview with President Obama regarding the withdrawal of recent cabinet nominees: "He is surprisingly relaxed...extremely comfortable, very focused. It’s very different than sort of the but...

Fresh from her interview with President Obama, CBS anchor Katie Couric appeared on Wednesday’s Live with Regis and Kelly. She defended Tom Daschle’s tax evasion. "But in fairness to him, and I don't know all the ins and of it, but he was given a limousine by a private equity fund that I gue...

I think I messed up. I screwed up in not recognizing the perception that even though this is an honest mistake, I believe, on Tom's part, that, you know, ordinary people are out there paying taxes every day and whether it's an intentional mistake or not, it was sending the wrong signal. You can watc...