Last week on The CITIZEN JOURNALIST Report, I challenged leftwing heavyweight and Media Matters gopher Oliver Willis to come on the show and question LGF’s Charles Johnson about Charles’ alleged “hate site”—a favorite posting theme of Ollie’s.  Today, we’ll find out if he has the balls. And by “balls,” I mean something approximating “courage” or “fortitude.” Not those little corn puffs dusted with powdered cheese product. **** update:  No word

You know what? You don’t have to post anything.  I mean, if it’s no longer fun, it’s no longer fun. **** update:  Of course, it could be fun again in an hour or so.  I’m fractious like that.

From Variety: In a move unlikely only because it’s taken this long to happen, pundit-about-town Arianna Huffington is extending her hosting largess to the blogosphere. This month the wannabe California governor is launching a Slate-like Web site where a cast of bigwigs, including Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.), David Geffen, Barry Diller, Larry David, Tom Freston, Ari Emanuel, Jim Wiatt, Tina Brown and Harold Evans will each have their own blog

To hell with the peanuts and Cracker Jacks, man! Poppa wants an eight-dollar Budweiser, and some of them tasty plastic-trayed nachos—the ones with the jalapeno pepper slices and the ladle-ful of warmed-up      Cheez-Wiz.

…to look at a house.  Not to buy it, mind you.  But to gawk at it—like some depraved real estate voyeur.  I am Alain Robbe-Grillet with a working knowledge of debt-to-income ratio and a secret lust for well-made screen doors.  Pray for my soul.

short guy in watch cap:  “Aren’t you getting anything?” guy in windbreaker: “No.  I hate movies.” short guy in watch cap:  “What do you mean you ‘hate movies’?  That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” guy in windbreaker: “Yeah, you’re right.  Truth is, I don’t have the four bucks.” short guy in watch cap: guy in windbreaker “Fucking Greenspan.”

Confronted by the choice of shaved turkey or roast beef, I had a little of each—rolled in a low-carb wrap and joined by a Claussen dill pickle spear and some raw cauliflower.

Vicar of Rome will recite rosary at St. Peter’s Square at 2 pm EST (via Fox / Sky Italia; not yet confirmed by the Vatican). **** update:  Vatican sources saying the Pope is still alive, but very near death.

From the AP, “Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials”: Sandy Berger, who was President Clinton’s top national security aide, has acknowledged taking classified documents from the National Archives and cutting them up with scissors, law enforcement officials said Friday. Rather than the “honest mistake” he acknowledged last summer, Berger told Justice Department lawyers he intentionally took and deliberately destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats

From the AP: Mitch Hedberg, a Minnesota-born comedian who worked in nightclubs, television and film in a wide-ranging career, died in New Jersey, his family said. He was 37. Hedberg, who struggled with drugs and alcohol, died Wednesday in a hotel room in Livingston, N.J. Pending the medical examiner’s report, the cause of death appears to be heart failure, said his mother, Mary Hedberg. She said her son was born