With no offense intended to all my NYC friends, of course. Some tosser with the NYPD has asked the City Council to give the police the power to authorize people in New York City to possess envi­ron­mental testing devices, and provide for criminal pros­e­cution of persons possessing such equipment without permission. Air quality meters, chemical sniffers, Geiger counters. It appears that the NYPD would even be licensing smoke detectors, radon test kits, and carbon monoxide monitors. And anyone merely possessing these things without permission could go to jail. The justi­fi­cation for this invidious tidbit of legis­lation is the fear that unreg­u­lated [ . . . ]

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NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have canceled this year’s Golden Globes awards ceremony, because the SAG actors decided they weren’t going to show up, on account of their “respect” for the WGA strike. HFPA will simply announce the winners at some point, with no pomp or circum­stance involved. By canceling the show and announcing the winners, HFPA is letting the SAG actors eat their cake (by giving them their awards) and have it, too (by caving in to their protest of the awards show). If I were HFPA, I’d have postponed it instead. That way, they could keep the [ . . . ]

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Kathy Griffin co-​​​​hosted New Year’s Eve at Times Square with Anderson Cooper on CNN last night. And she claims to be D-​​​​List. That’s a squarely C-​​​​List activity. Kathy tried her hardest to get Anderson fired, at one point asking him who, in the current admin­is­tration, he would most enjoy water­boarding. Of course we all know Anderson’s position on water­boarding (even though he never really comes out and says it), so he was quite perturbed, refused to answer, and accused Kathy of “crossing the line.” To which Ms Griffin responded by looking at the camera and saying, “That’s what I’m here for!” [ . . . ]

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