Time for Martha's Blonde Moment: As congressional truth seekers bear down on Martha Stewart, it looks highly likely that she will be hauled before the committee, topping off her summer of discontent. To avoid this, she seems to be paying for an awful lot of very fancy and not very effective PR and legal advice. Perhaps she should show up, dimple sweetly, say she meant no harm, cry prettily and dare the big, mean, old men to pick on her. Blondes have been doing it for centuries. It works. Mike Weisskopf in Time examines Martha's tormentors.

Slip-Sliding Her Way: Hillary, red-faced, at being caught holding onto several thousand dollars of ImClone CEO Sam Waksal's political donations, did the Grand-Lady-Tango the day after the New York Post said she wasn't going to give it back. She announced she would give some of it to charity. Here's the difference between gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall's (who also took Waksal bucks) offer and Hillary's. McCall said he would give it all back and named the charity - the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Hillary said "some" and didn't name the charity. This makes it tough to check and see if she actually does. We hope the Post will be tracking this. If not..........we will. After all, she's our senator.

Straightened Out: Sydney, Australia's huge gay and lesbian Mardi Gras has been cancelled. Organizers say it's because it was so fabby in the past, more straights than gays showed up. Others blame conservatives and still more blame politically correct (read b-o-o-rrrring) lesbians and their art fair. The reason can probably be found in one former participant's comment. "It's just not fun anymore." (Mind your language with commentary on this one or the thread will be closed.)

While You Were At The Beach: Dr. Steven Hatfill, the scientist the FBI has been hounding about anthrax, suited up, grabbed his lawyer and a former CNN correspondent as a spokesman and called a front door press conference. This is an interesting case and one to watch this week. If he's innocent he gives new meaning and guts to the phrase, "I've had it." Here is the text of his statement yesterday to bring you up to speed.

Rosie's Turn? The only thing Rosie O'Donnell has left after trashing a lucrative career in TV is her troubled magazine. The New York Post reports that now her publisher is combing her contract for grounds to dump her. Insiders say they might try adding up what it cost them for her to put her pregnant girl-friend's sister and mother on the magazine's payroll.

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