Gentrification of New York’s Bowery district means the legendary music club CBGB’s is having to relocate (to Las Vegas) after 33 years. Fittingly, one of the biggest stars to get their break there played one of the final shows: Deborah Harry, aka “Blondie”.

Linda Frum has a better-than-usual interview with Mark Steyn up.

I am not making this up.

Hillary vs. McCain: Round 1. (Although, McCain comes out ahead – that was an incredibly cheap shot by Hilary’s “anonymous aide”).

Sam and Zed with special insight about “over there”.

A Fox Sports baseball announcer was fired for cracking some Hispanic jokes about his broadcast partner, Yankees great Lou Piniella. (Piniella was most recently manager of the Devil Rays and is rumored to be wanted by the Tribune Co. as the next Cubs manager).

I have nothing to add to LC Jackboot’s excellent writeup.

A great interview. The pullquote:

One of the great untold stories of al-Qa’ida is that they are all these men who f-ck little boys.

Step 1: bring in the great-looking rear-drive Holden Commodore from GM Australia
Step 2: sell it as the new Pontiac Grand Prix, replacing 2 decades of crappy straight-to-rental rebadged Chevys
Step 3: Profit

(Yes, I know they already tried this and failed with the Holden Monaro => Pontiac GTO, but the styling offended retro-purists, kids had no idea what a GTO was, and the marketing sucked. This time they should have a lot fewer such disadvantages).

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s old house is for sale. 6 bathrooms, 7 1/2 bathrooms. And of course some features no other house will ever have.

Get warmed up for football with Terry Tate: Office Linebacker.

“Officials Say Marching Band Engaged In Inappropriate Sex Acts”. I am not making this up. (via Fark)