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Hollywood screenwriter Craig Mazin, who shared a dorm room with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz during their freshman year at Princeton University, spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday trashing the Texas senator on Twitter. The storm of tweets, which started Monday evening, seemed to be sparked my Mazin's influx of Twitter followers, which he attributes to people learning that he was Cruz's roommate for a short time. "I have 30k followers now, and all I had to do was be stuck in a room with Ted Cruz for a year. I'm sure you're all nice, but SO NOT WORTH IT,"...

Just damn! I was having rolicking late-night tv affair with Craig Ferguson whose Late Late Show comes on after that unwatchable liberal schmuck Letterman. But Craig was different. Talked about personal responsibility, admited to years of "blackout" drinking, which he quit years ago. Admirable. One night he did his monologue on Courtney Love who was just headed into "treatment" for the umpteenth time, but after the obligatory jokes about her, ended by wishing her the very best for making a true recovery this time. Gallant. Devoted one show to holding a wake for his father, who'd died a few days...

standing in the parking lot of an enormous shopping mall, staring at a Ford Excursion. A 7,700-pound hunk of metal, the Excursion gets horrible gas mileage, while spewing massive amounts of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere. It's the official policy of our federal government to offer Americans bribes, in the form of huge tax deductions, to encourage the purchase of such vehicles. In 2003, Congress enacted a provision allowing people who bought SUVs weighing at least 6,000 pounds to deduct the entire purchase price from their taxable income, if they claimed to use the things for "business purposes." [snip] You, sir...