Former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet has joined the British research firm thought to have provided the inspiration for ‘Q’, the character who creates spy gadgets for James Bond.

Threadless.com, the hugely successful on-line t-shirt competition website, recently was selling, then pulled, one of their slogan t-shirts which read, “I’d Give My Left Arm To Play Drums For Def Leppard.” In place of the shirt for sale was the following note:

No other reason for the removal was given. Was Def Leppard’s money hungry law team to blame, or were the good folks at Threadless feeling a pang of guilt for profiting from Rick Allen’s loss?

Gotta love Daley. Chicago’s favorite no-shit Mayor has just declined the GOP’s request to hold the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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You know, if people read my e-mail I’m sure I’d come off as an enormous schmuck. Then again, my electronic fodder has never been slung while overseeing the relief effort to an entire coast of displaced hurricane victims. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we get a sneak peek at, former FEMA director, MIchael Brown’s inbox.

Melancon said that on August 26, just days before Katrina made landfall, Brown e-mailed his press secretary, Sharon Worthy, about his attire, asking: “Tie or not for tonight? Button-down blue shirt?”



A few days later, Worthy advised Brown: “Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt, all shirts. Even the president rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow. In this [crisis] and on TV you just need to look more hard-working.”