Rod Blagojevich Finally Gets Consolation Prize

Forgotten hairball Rod Blagojevich thought he could finally cash in big with Barack Obama's Senate seat, but that didn't work out too well. Then Rod went on every talk show and cable-news program to jabber hysterical bullshit, and that really didn't lead to riches, either. Now, at the end of both his political career and his brief stint as America's Diversionary Joke, Blago has signed a very modest "six figure" deal to write an idiotic book. ("Six figure," in this case, almost certainly means exactly $100,000 -- a lot of money, to most people, but a lot less than the $155,600 he used to make as governor of Illinois.) [ AP/WBBM ]