Here's Dubya's speech to the Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner.

And here's a YouTube link for the utterly unfunny rap number featuring "MC Rove."

Here's a post or two on Stephen Colbert's lambasting of Bush at the White House Correspondents dinner last year.

Rachel Marsden first gained notoriety in this country by making sexual harassment allegations against a Simon Fraser University swim coach in the early 1990s, when it turned out she was stalking him. And others. She now has a gig on Fox News' Red Eye, a late-night, right-wing alternative to the Daily Show.

From the BBC:

A Swiss man has been jailed for 10 years after pleading guilty to charges of insulting the Thai king.

Oliver Jufer, 57, was arrested last December after drunkenly spray-painting portraits of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the northern city of Chiang Mai.

Earlier this month he pleaded guilty to five charges under Thailand's draconian lese majeste law. ...

Jufer, who had faced a maximum sentence of 75 years, has lived in Thailand for more than 10 years.

He was recorded on surveillance cameras defacing the portraits on the king's 79th birthday.

Earlier he had tried to buy alcohol but been refused, since such sales are sometimes banned on important days. King Bhumibol, the world's longest-serving current head of state, is a very popular figure in Thailand.

The Beeb corro says the Thai media are staying far, far away from this story.

This was in my email when I got home:

Hello,

I plan to apply to (a) journalism program and their admission process requires me to interview three journalists.

May I please ask you some questions?

1. Besides school what else did you do to get journalism experience?

2. What did you learn outside of school in the field to become a good
journalist?

3. What advice do you have for someone wanting to pursue a career in
journalism?

Thank you,

The answers are as follows ...