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Just like Andy Rooney had a good point that Barry Obama shouldn’t be president because he has a black-sounding name, the counterpoint made by labor-hating scab Andy Sullivan last night on Colbert was equally brilliant. Baldilocks spent a good chunk of his four minutes pushing for Barry, sharing with Comedy Central viewers the great insight the world will stop hating us if our president is brown and named “Obama.” Thank you, Andy. And thanks for saying it on teevee and not on your blog, where we wouldn’t have understood on account of we don’t know how to read..

Hey, Andy Rooney’s not dead! Who knew? Also, he’s not happy with the all these ethnic-sounding people running for president. Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani … jeez, this is supposed to be America, not the freakin’ Rainbow Coalition. You know who had a good, white-sounding name? Adolph Hitler, that’s who.

* Andy Rooney discusses his FOURTEENTH book Out of My Mind at Politics & Prose. Free at 7PM. [P&P]
* Tranquil Space Yoga (in Dupont Circle) founder Kimberly Wilson talks about her book Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life on and off the Yoga Mat at Olsson’s. Free at 7PM. [Olsson's]
* Emily Haines (Broken Social Scene [UPDATE: Yes, Liz, and Metric]) at the 9:30 Club with The Soft Skeleton and the Tall Firs. [9:30 Club]
* Gail Pressberg discusses The Promise and Politics of Stem Cell Research at Olsson’s. The book features an intro by Mary Tyler Moore, but we don’t think she’ll be there. Feel free to periodically cry “Oh, Rob!” anyway. [Olsson's Event Calendar]
* Or crash a lobbying firm’s office party: The Carmen Group will get you drunk at 7:30 p.m. in the National Music Center and Museum Foundation at the Historic Carnegie Library Building.

Another Wednesday, another installment of our very favorite regular blog feature, “What As Andy Thinking.” Here, courtesy CBS, the topics of some of Andy Rooney’s 60 Minutes editorials in 2003: MORE »

* It turns out that a court does resemble a circus, at least when Jessica Cutler is there, along with a former paramour as plaintiff and an alleged former paramour as defense counsel. Well, not anymore, as defense counsel had to “pull out.” MORE »

We take back every single negative thing we have ever said about a) blogs b) CBS c) TV news d) humanity in general. Because of this new feature at the CBS “PublicEye” site. It is called “What Was Andy Thinking?” and it is a list of things talked about by Andy Rooney every week on 60 Minutes. Here is but a sampling: MORE »

• Daily Kos poster, LGF commenters form suicide call help line. How-to line, maybe. [Mr. Snitch]
• m4m, must be over 18, willing to travel, kill people. [NYPost]
• We are pleased to report that Benton M Wilmoth IV still makes the shittiest money in the White House. [Froomkin]
• Roy Moore hoping to make Alabama safe for 5000 pound religious sculpture. [WP, The Atlantic]
• The Iraq war is not going so well, according to both Jon Stewart and, uhm, Andy Rooney. [C&L, CBS] MORE »