Short Cuts

Too Green, Too Extreme and Always Boring: Last week, like a mongoose emerging from his hideout and blinking in the light, Al Gore, his earth tones finally balanced, underwhelmed his colleagues to the point of effusive praise. The American Prowler takes note of their giddy support of Mr. Snore once they realized he was no competition.

Where The Boss Is: How much fun must W be having watching the city slicker wimps in the press corps suffer in the over 100 degree heat in Crawford. Here, with nothing to write about but her extreme discomfort and the horror of crickets in her hotel lobby, Elizabeth Bumiller at the NYTimes finds a way to file a report that criticizes Bush for being able to take it. At least her headline writer got it right.

Amin Still Not Dead: And you thought you were depressed. Retired cannibal and all 'round bad guy Idi Amin has been reported dead, revived, or in a coma for weeks in Saudi Arabia. Now he's getting death threats. What in the world do they say? "Don't die, I'm going to kill you." One of the odder stories of the morning, particularly the bit about his viewing tastes at home.

Blossoming Brockette: Fresh from ditching a cool Irish vacation with Tina Brown, Arianna Huffington did a Filene's Basement Sale (not that she's ever been there) run at Arnold on Saturday to get her face framed with him on the evening news. Here she sits down for an interview with the Washington Post. She says riveting things like, "I'm running to win," (as opposed to those who are running to lose?) and that she hopes there will be several debates. In a two month campaign perhaps it would be wise to limit debates to those candidates that speak intelligible English. And, here, the London Telegraph registers her "bisexual" husband's pout at her "devastated" daughters response. to her running. The source sounds suspiciously like her spurned hostess in the Irish woods.

Just In Case You Missed It: We particularly liked this graph from a Mark Steyn column posted over the weekend. It kind of sums things up.

"Okay, Arnold's not a Nazi. He was born in the Austrian town of Thal, but not until 1947, and thus was technically unable to join the Nazi Party no matter how much he may have wanted to. But he certainly has family ties to the Nazis. His wife's grandfather, Joe Kennedy, was one of America's most prominent Nazi sympathisers.Oh, wait. That's not the Nazi family ties the Dems had in mind?"

-Your Monday Perky LComStaff