While screwing around on IMDB, I've come across several people whose deaths I missed. So, expect a few Retro-bituaries this week. Feel free to add your own.

The first is Christopher Hewett (Mr. Belvedere), whose death was buried in the Where's Chandra Levy? media circus of Summer '01. He was 79.

Keep resting in peace.

Last week, two of our YesBut colleagues referenced examples of somewhat less-than-stellar journalism. Aquaman reported that the folks at Fox need to work on their vocabulary skills, and Evil Rich pointed out the people at the Times need to get out of the country a little more. I personally found both these posts hysterical, and inspiring.

Here's the thing, why should the Daily Show have all the fun in pointing out stupidity. We've got our own news vehicle, let's use it. In the spirit of the Oscars, Emmy's and Tony's, I give you:

THE TARDY'S...Our weekly award for the most retarded thing to come out of someone's mouth in the past week.

Here's an example. Remember last December, when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told George Stephenopolous on This Week that he didn't know if HIV could be transmitted through tears or sweat? (That's Dr. Frist) This coming while the President was on one of his "Abstinence All The Way" campaigns.

This is the same Senator Frist who stood on the floor of Congress telling his fellow Senators that video provided by the Terry Schiavvo family seemed to show her responding to people around her. And then just last month, an autopsy revealed Terry Schiavvo had devastating brain damage...basically, she had been brain dead. Once again, that's DR. FRIST who was the source of both gems.

These are the kind of comments that will be a lock for the Tardy's, and we're just the website to point that out...Stay tuned.

(Note to Scaramouch: I'm not calling Senator Frist retarded. I'm saying he said something that sounded retarded. Big difference. No lawsuit worries.)

One final note, I recently read that Senator Frist was President of his high school senior class, started at quarterback, dated and got engaged to the head cheerleader, went undergrad to Princeton, and med school at Harvard...what a dick.

Taken from CrooksandLiars.com

"Despite an Internet effort to drum up opposition, several hundred of the nation's most ambitious young Republicans convened Thursday with little controversy. Activists of a loosely organized campaign called Operation Yellow Elephant had threatened to protest the Young Republican National Convention at Mandalay Bay this week.

A delegate from Florida, 27-year-old David Fletcher, said he participates in the Young Republicans because he thinks it's important for young people to get involved in politics. But while Fletcher said he fully supports the war in Iraq, he said he has not enlisted and doesn't have plans to enlist. When asked why, he said, "I'd rather not answer that question."

So let's see...in the next generation, the Republican kids are hypocrites, and the kids on the left are incompetent.
All systems...A-ok.