The madness is on pause til Thursday

Richard Nixon's tapes are finally going public. There's about an 18.5 minute gap on one of them so if you can't hear anything, then your ears are fine.

Mike Dooley from Fort Wayne's News-Sentinel:

The national media seems more convinced with every passing day that Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. The latest reasoning? He’d be a viable alternative – please sit down if you’re not already – to Hillary Clinton.

No, Natalie Portman is not sick, she has to shave her head for a movie role. Now why can't she just wear one of those things that makes you appear bald?

NATALIE PORTMAN will be trying to mar her flawless face in her next film, V for Vendetta. According to buzz on Hollywood-elsewhere.com, the beautiful Harvard grad has to try and winnow a few pounds off her skeletal frame and shave her head in order to play the lead role of "Evey." The flick, which will be filmed in Berlin, purports to be a violent futuristic film about ``the people'' bringing down a totalitarian government and is being produced by the Wachowski Brothers of Matric fame who seem to have a thing for slender, doe-eyed brunettes.