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Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones showed off her national pride in Las Vegas over the weekend, cheering on her fellow Welsh countryman Joe Calzaghe as he boxed his way to victory. With bright yellow daffodil pinned to her dress and a Welsh flag draped around her shoulders, the actress could barely contain her excitement as the "Pride of Wales" took on American boxer Bernard Hopkins. She was joined by a who's who roll call of A-list stars, including Tom Jones, sang his homeland's national anthem, Land Of My Fathers, before the 36-year-old entered the ring in front of more than 14,000...

MoDooDoo was interviewed by the pockmarked Andrea Mitchell tonight. What a pair of deluded and misguided humans....read on if you can...but first, here's a pic of the man-deprived MoDo.

President Bush might want to think twice before resurrecting his cowboy routine. He might conjure up images of Bushback Mountain. To continue reading this article, you must be a subscriber to TimesSelect.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got to play a little audio sound bite for you here. This is from Reliable Sources yesterday on CNN. Howard Kurtz is talking to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who wrote, "Are Men Really Necessary?" and Howard's question was this: "When you write something about George W. Bush or Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld and some of your critics out there decide to take you on, whether it's Rush Limbaugh or Friedman or David Brooks or anybody else, do you feel it's done in a more personal way than if you were Tom Friedman or...

COLUMNIST SCHEDULE MONDAY Bob Herbert and Paul Krugman TUESDAY Nicholas D. Kristof and John Tierney WEDNESDAY Maureen Dowd and Thomas L. Friedman THURSDAY David Brooks and Bob Herbert FRIDAY Thomas L. Friedman and Paul Krugman SATURDAY Maureen Dowd and John Tierney SUNDAY David Brooks, Nicholas D. Kristof and Frank Rich

Milbank, Dowd Weigh In on Gannon/GuckertBy Greg MitchellPublished: February 17, 2005 11:05 AM ETNEW YORK Washington Post staff writer Dana Milbank, a former White House correspondent, tells a leading blog there remains reason to believe that, contrary to statements from the White House, ex-reporter James “Jeff Gannon” Guckert, may had a "hard" (long-term) press pass rather than a daily pass. Milbank said on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show last week that he thought he had seen Guckert/Gannon with a hard pass. Both the disgraced ex-reporter for Talon News and White House press Secretary Scott McClellan have denied this. But Milbank affirmed,...

Do male nipples prove evolution? Not at all, according to a Web site for a planned Creation Museum devoted to showing that the Bible is literally true. Nipples may be biologically de trop for men, an "expert" on the site notes, but that doesn't mean they resulted from natural selection. They could just as well be a decorating feature of the Creator's (like a hood ornament). Who are we to question His designs, since we cannot presume to comprehend His mind? Advertisement The virtual tour of the museum, to be built in rural Kentucky, says its exhibits will explain many...

A few years ago at a White House Correspondents' dinner, I met a very beautiful actress. Within moments, she blurted out: "I can't believe I'm 46 and not married. Men only want to marry their personal assistants or P.R. women." I'd been noticing a trend along these lines, as famous and powerful men took up with the young women whose job it was to tend to them and care for them in some way: their secretaries, assistants, nannies, caterers, flight attendants, researchers and fact-checkers. Women in staff support are the new sirens because, as a guy I know put it,...

Instapundit reports that in a post-Election Day appearance, Maureen Dowd "looks absolutely terrible. It's like she's aged ten years since I last saw her. Her manner is subdued, and bitter, too. I guess that explains her post-election writing. It's striking to see a pundit taking the election so hard — most actual Democratic politicians seem to be maintaining more personal distance." Well, really, who had more on the line in this campaign? A professional politician has ups and downs in his or her career; you win some races, and you lose some. But the press bet the house against...

They were wrong, of course. Soldiers should not go public in the middle of a conflict and trash-talk their superiors or ask for the resignation of the secretary of defense. But it was inevitable that their gripes would bubble to the surface. Many American troops in Iraq are exhausted, and perplexed about the scary new guerrilla war they're caught up in. And they have every right to be scared, because the coolly efficient Bush commanders have now been exposed as short-term tacticians who had no strategy for dealing with a war of liberation that morphed into a war of attrition....

hy, oh Y, are men so insecure? The darlings have been fretting for some years now that they may be rendered unnecessary if women get financial and biological independence, learning how to reproduce and refinance without them. What if nature played a cruel trick and demoted men, so they had to be judged merely by their appearance, pliability and talent for gazing raptly at the opposite sex, no matter how bored? New research on the Y chromosome shows that my jittery male friends are not paranoid; they are in an evolutionary shame spiral. As Nicholas Wade wrote in The Times:...