Elephant in the Sky at Hollywood & Highland | Photo by huangjiahui via Flickr Monday Scott McClellan signs What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Phyllis Gebauer discusses and signs Hot Widow 7pm @ Vroman's Marianne Wiggins signs The Shadow Catcher 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, The Grove Salman Rushdie discusses The Enchantress of Florence with Carrie Fisher 7:30pm @ Writers......

In a stunning accusation of a crime that in most circles is tantamount to treason, former White House mouthpiece Scott McClellan claims that President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove and others were all in on outting 20-year CIA agent Valerie Plame. Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity......

A Word or 56: Thankfully I was doing my radio show last night and was spared the State of the Union, and therefore, a really bad hangover. It was (somewhat) reassuring to see some livid polarized response but half the time I feel like these guys are going through the motions. Two ways to disgust yourself tonight are: Crawlspace on IFC and Primetime: Medical Mysteries, enjoy. Tonight - Wednesday - January 24th, 2007 Crawlspace......

© Mike Lynaugh bye bye: White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is stepping down, he announced this morning. Could Rumsfeld be next? bang bang: A house in Upland was searched by authorities looking for a gun; they found 900. The 900 guns were behind framed pictures and mirrors, in hollowed-out spaces in closets, under a staircase and behind a trick bookcase. Neighbors, who described the former Army special forces officer as a nice family guy,......

It started when we headed to the Huffington Post to see what they had to say about Cheney's hunting accident: we got distracted. Look, they had a link to the CheneyHunt Game! Shoot along with Cheney! But the game doesn't last long enough for us. Of course Jon Stewart nailed it on The Daily Show last night: Cheney: #2 With A Bullet!. Incidents like these are like manna from heaven for satirists, and they......

Former US Secretary of Education William Bennett is in the media hot seat right now. The conservative talk show host made the following statement during a Wednesday broadcast of Morning in America: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." (listen to the clip) Yesterday White House spokesman Scott McClellan made an official statement on the matter. McClellan said that the President "believes the comments were......