The Truffle

Make it stop! Make it stoooooooop!!!!

Nicole Ritchie is in Vanity Fair, talking about how thin she is. Shut up and eat a hamburger. And get a job while you’re at it.

Tom Cruise will be starring in Mission Impossible III. Did they remember to include a coherent plot for this installment? Who cares? And who cares what “Suri” means in what language?

How far along is Angelina Jolie, and is she going to just have the kid already? And are we going to see more side-by-side photos of Brangelina and Jennifer Aniston or is everyone going to just shut up and move on to the Denise Richards-Richie Sambora-Heather Locklear kerfluffle?

There should be a rule: if you lose on American Idol, you do not automatically gain publicity and a recording deal. You have to start at the bottom again and tour clubs and do crappy gigs and sing backup and orange juice commercials just like all the other singers.

Keith Richards fell from a tree? Pft! My boyfriend’s theory is that Richards died years ago and hasn’t realized it yet.

Oh, and a people? Stop writing about Courtney Love and Pete Doherty. Maybe if they ever release new music they’ll be deserving of publicity. Until then, screw it.

Stephen Colbert: Another victim of the liberal media?

Jon Swift seems to think so.

I’m one of about seven people who has never read "The Da Vinci Code"

Maybe I will read it before the movie comes out, but Comandante Agi of the Defeatists has no plan to do so. However, he does have a bit of advice if you’re considering a boycott or a protest.

ANOTHER former CIA analyst takes on Bushco

Specifically Rumsfeld. Think Progress has the whole transcript. The analyst in question is 27-year CIA vet Ray McGovern, and he’s carrying on like a bona fide America hater here. Rummy bravely tries to change the subject:

RUMSFELD: It’s easy for you to make a charge, but why do you think that the men and women in uniform every day, when they came out of Kuwait and went into Iraq, put on chemical weapon protective suits? Because they liked the style?…They honestly believed that there were chemical weapons….

Well, the fact that the intelligence seems to have been cherry-picked (per Paul Pillar, another ex-CIA dude) may explain why they thought there were chemical weapons.
And I don’t know about you, Rummy, but I wasn’t aware anyone joined the military to make a fashion statement.
Let’s continue:

RUMSFELD: Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons on his own people previously. He’d used them on his neighbor (AUDIO GAP) the Iranians, and they believed he had those weapons.
We believed he had those weapons.
MCGOVERN: That’s what we call a non sequitur. It doesn’t matter what the troops believe; it matters what you believe.

Whoops, looks like hiding behind the troops didn’t work.
Man, Bushco must hate the CIA these days.