Oscar Peterson, RIP Age 82

News from just up the road in Mississauga, Ontario… Jazz great Oscar Peterson has died at age 82 from Kidney failure.

Is Keith Olbermann’s job in peril?  Eric Cartman is now doing sports.

Hat Tips:  Nigel, There it Goes;  Ace, Ace of Spades Hq.

Good news and good news from the TV Food Network, more Rachel Ray and less Emeril Lagasse:

NEW YORK (AP) – The Food Network has ordered extra helpings of Rachael Ray. A new prime-time series, “Rachael’s Vacation,”

Scott Fybush is reporting the death of Hy Lit, one of the very first Rock and Roll DJ’s in the country.

Hy Lit died Saturday, almost two weeks after undergoing what was supposed to have been routine knee surgery for

Vince Flynn, author of the NYT listed best selling novel, “Protect and Defend”, in the Washington Times, today:

Question: In the real world, how effective do you think torture is with Islamic terrorists?
A: Far more effective than liberals

Say Anything:

Despite all their protestations of piety and clean living as well as their condemnation of anything they deem to be “Unislamic” it seems that our friends from the Religion of Peace have a keen desire to dive right

News flash:
Apparently, Rosie O’Donnel can’t stand Bill Clinton.

No, seriously.

PageSix at the NY Post ran the story:

“He disgusts me,” O’Donnell recalled saying at the casino show. “And I know I’m not supposed to say this because I’m

 By way of the Conservative Grapevine…  The Superficial reports, not unexpectedly, that Britney Spears continues to circle the drain:

Jive Records is officially giving up on trying to get Britney Spears to promote her new album. They’re not even

Now there was a voice.

Bloomberg – Robert Goulet, the singer whose rich baritone voice and classic tall, dark, dashing good looks made him a star on stage and television, has died. He was 73.

Goulet suffered from a rare

The New York Times Porter Wagoner, a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton, died last night in Nashville.

Allah says, under a headline reading:

Wildfire victims getting what’s coming to them, says Carlin

No need for grandiose outrage here. He’s been saying stuff like this for decades. In fact it’s a core part of his act, which is

Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on “Bewitched” and Bernice on “Designing Women,” has died. She was 81.Ghostley died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer

One of the real legends of jazz has died:

VIENNA, Austria -AP- Joe Zawinul, the jazz keyboardist who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with the band Weather Report, has died, a hospital official said.

LAS VEGAS —AP-  Lee Hazlewood, a singer and songwriter best known for writing and producing “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” for Nancy Sinatra, has died. He was 78.

Barton Lee Hazlewood died at his home in Henderson of kidney

While much of the lame stream media are simply awed by celebrity,such as the idiot who thought it would good idea to inteview the murderer of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, some listeners are not so awed;  Question to