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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I expected Huckabee would turn out on top of the Republican caucuses in Iowa. He won’t do so well in New Hampshire, at least. I’ve always said Huckabee was more fright­ening to me for the ideo­logical trends he repre­sents, not for the possi­bility that he might be elected. And I still am not too worried about that. What is inter­esting to me is Obama’s victory in the Democratic caucuses. The two most religious candi­dates won in Iowa. The eleven month long, slow-​​​​motion train wreck begins! Fortunately, Iowa has been off the mark as a November predictor for the past few cycles. I hope those ideo­logical [ . . . ]

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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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