Con-servative pundit Stephen Colbert takes over MoDowd's column in the NYT for the day.

From the NYT:

Surprised to see my byline here, aren’t you? I would be too, if I read The New York Times. But I don’t. So I’ll just have to take your word that this was published. Frankly, I prefer emoticons to the written word, and if you disagree :(

I’d like to thank Maureen Dowd for permitting/begging me to write her column today. As I type this, she’s watching from an overstuffed divan, petting her prize Abyssinian and sipping a Dirty Cosmotinijito. Which reminds me: Before I get started, I have to take care of one other bit of business:

Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn’t have to think about. It’s all George Bush’s fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.

There. Now I’ve written Frank Rich’s column too.

Toronto Star foreign desk editor Peter Martyn reviews the new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Watson, who has literally been to hell and back.

Mr. MyBlahg pointed me to this post addressing a British judge's ruling on An Inconvenient Truth: