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So much for Al Franken's "A-List" celeb aspirations. In confronting US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a New York event Monday, Franken was exposed as insignificant. With this sobering reality check, perhaps Al will learn to stick to the Smalley routines. Don't take the Radio Equalizer's word for it, New York City newspapers are having a pre-Thanksgiving journalistic feast, thanks to our friend Al. According to the New York Daily News, Justice Scalia wasn't even familiar with Franken as the two sparred during outgoing Time honcho Norman Pearlstine's latest "Conversations On The Circle" event: ....

Indian woman chops off husband's penis 58 minutes ago LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - A young woman chopped off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife in northern India over his "blatant indulgence in womanising and drinking", police said on Saturday. The 27-year-old woman said her husband of 10 years had brought a prostitute home to Lucknow in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, police said. "I wanted to teach him a lesson for his blatant indulgence in womanising and drinking," Reshma Ahmed, a mother of four, said in her confession to police. "He was fast asleep when...

<p>January 27, 2004 -- EXETER, N.H. - Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean. The tussle left Franken's trademark thick-rim glasses broken, but he said he was not injured.</p>

Leftist gadfly Al Franken, author of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," got under Bill O'Reilly's skin last night at the Book-Expo America convention when he went after fellow panelist and Fox superstar Bill O'Reilly in what the New York Post called "a blistering attack." That set off an old-fashioned brouhaha with the two slinging insults at each other. What got O'Reilly fuming was Franken's unexpected blind-siding him with invective while he sat listening during what was supposed to be a civilized panel discussion. According to USA Today, O'Reilly told...