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I finally said goodbye to some old buddies. One of them shot a woman at point-blank range after complimenting her on her hair. Another person maimed a rival with his shotgun. A third stole from his sister to finance his drug habit. Their names are as twisted as their deeds: Snot-Boogie,... 

Lindsay Lohan referred to President-elect Barack Obama as the country’s “first colored president” in an interview on “Access Hollywood.” Describing her experience on Election Day, Lohan said: “It was really exciting. It’s an amazing feeling. It’s our first colored... 

Phil Donahue has rarely shied away from controversy. On his long-running syndicated talk show, he debated issues including abortion and the death penalty, and his MSNBC show was canceled in 2003, he maintained, because of his antiwar stand. Now the former talk show host has co-directed... 

Joan Baez is in a celebratory mood. And rightly so: She’s survived 50 years in show business. The legendary singer, who rose to fame during the folk movement of the 1950s and 1960s, is marking the occasion with a new album called “Day After Tomorrow.” Produced by... 

Days before the January 2001 inauguration of President Bush, the Onion ran a story headlined: “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over.’ ” Writers at the satirical paper still speak reverentially of the story, in which Bush... 

Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford. Dan Aykroyd as Jimmy Carter (and Richard Nixon and Bob Dole). Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush. Will Ferrell as George W. Bush. “Saturday Night Live” has been parodying politicians for years, sometimes with such precision that their catchphrases... 

There’s a new book out about Barack Obama that some say is riddled with pretty much every unsubstantiated rumor you’ve ever heard about the Illinois senator. It is called “Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.” The author, Jerome Corsi,...