THE TENSION: The Decline and Fall of Western Civ. for 31 Aug

More news from the front:

The Golden YamGallery(CKG) shows a sculpture purportedly cast from 19-week old Suri Cruise's first bowel movement. The work by controversial artist Daniel Edwards, is to be auctioned off for charity on eBay next month.(AFP/CKG-HO)

President Bush is assassinated in a new movie, reports This Is London. What's next? I guess someone will make a movie about a former president who is taken hostage by Islamic fascists and beheaded on live TV. It will be interesting to see who denounces and who gets behind this anti-U.S., anti-Bush movie. Take names and keep notes, folks.

The Washington Post reports that "The Scream" and another masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were recovered by police in Norway Thursday, two years after they were ripped off a wall of an Oslo museum by two armed men in black ski masks. Come to think of it, "The Scream" sums up what I felt like when I first saw the "Golden Yam" above.

The Scream

Fox Reno reports that according to Access Hollywood, Donald Trump has parted ways with long-time TV sidekick Carolyn Kepcher. More details from AP.

Replacing bias with fluff, Bob Schieffer, who led the "CBS Evening News" from the rocky departure of Dan Rather to the dawn of the Katie Couric era, will make his last appearance in the anchor chair Thursday reports AP. Audio from Washington Post.

CNN's Krya is the real control freak, Dad laughs, according to the NY Post. See DFWC for 29 Aug for video goodness.

ABC's Brian Ross, known for his journalistic stretchthefactsattude, quotes the equally reliable Arab newspaper al Hayat for the details of a story about how the U.S. secretly agreed to the "real demands" set by the group behind the August 14 kidnapping of two Fox News journalists in Gaza. I guess Fox reporters are just worth more than others thanks to Tony Snow.