In case you didn't hear Rush talking about this today:
"Vox" author Nicholson Baker's new book features characters who plot to kill President Bush, using everything from guns to remote-controlled flying saws to mobile boulders made of depleted uranium.
"Checkpoint," which is set to hit bookstores the week before the Republican National Convention, will be published by Alfred A. Knopf - the publishers behind Bill Clinton's "My Life."
In the book, one character rages about Bush, saying: "He is beyond the beyond. What he's done with this war.
"He's one dead armadillo."
It isn't illegal to write about killing heads of state if the purpose isn't to encourage such actions. Besides, the characters never follow through.
A Secret Service spokesman declined comment. A White House rep didn't return a call.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/207638p-178969c.html
Chris Heinz might be one of People magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors," but apparently he's not getting any action. Or so the 31-year-old ketchup heir wants the world to believe.
"I think I'm the only person who hasn't hooked up because of the campaign. Because I'm deathly afraid to," Heinz confided to Lowdown at Monday night's posh fund-raiser for stepdad John Kerry at furniture mogul Eric Villency's Tribeca palace.
"Campaigns are very young, but I only meet people for one or two nights at a time, max, unless I'm here in New York or in L.A. That's not a good model for me" - presumably he meant "model for living," not Karolina Kurkova. "I've never been that guy. I wish! Or I used to wish. Anyhow, I don't wish now."
Was that a tone of mild self-pity creeping into the handsome, single millionaire's celibacy claim? Impossible! What about all those promising reports about a relationship with "Troy" actress Diane Kruger?
"That's a rumor," Heinz lamented. "She's a friend of mine. We all run in the same group here. I do know her, but I'm single. I should be so lucky!"
Can somebody, please, get this guy a date? Lloyd Grove, NY Daily News