Charlie Wilson

For four years, every reporter who asked the president or his press secretaries any question about the Wilson matter has received essentially the same non-responsive response: The president and the White House staff could not talk about the matter so long as the special counsel was actively pursuing the case. That tired excuse no longer works.

One of Charlie Brooker's best tirades yet. The Guardian columnist attacks the surveillance society, the false sense of empowerment provided by consumer choice, and Adam Sandler, in this searing indictment of consumer capitalism. I thought there were shades of Bill Hicks in this piece - 'Here you go America. Watch this. Shut up."

Gov. Charlie Crist enlisted Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday to help terminate Florida's pollution, then signed three executive orders designed to ease greenhouse gases to just 20 percent of what they were in 1990 by 2050.