Like you, we’re sick of considering the poor Midwesterns who are forced to watch repeats of Dave Letterman because of the writers strike. Let’s be honest, Dave Letterman is not that funny, even with writers. Those Midwesterns should have better late night plans anyway.

But pothead college students, we care about those kids, if only because we’re just like them except with degrees. We also care about the 2008 election; we’re suckers for democracy.

So after many weeks, there’s finally a new angle to the writers’ strike: What are the stoned college kids missing out on now that fake news is in reruns?

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The Judith Regan lawsuit conjured up some disturbing mental images of the former editrix and Bernard Kerik. But less unsettling was the allegation that News Corp. was trying to protect “America’s Mayor,” Rudy Giuliani.

Indeed the two have long ties. Roger Ailes and Giuliani go way back to his first failed run for mayor in 1989. In 1994, for a reception honoring Ailes, Giuliani prepared a speech where he wrote, "Roger has played an important role in my own career." Aw, thanks Rog.

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It’s hard to find good scapegoats these days. After taking the fall for the O.J. Simpson book deal last year, Judith Regan is back with a $100 million defamation suit against News Corp.

In her case, Regan claims that HarperCollins told her to lie about her affair with Bernard K. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner. How Regan and Kerik got together remains a mystery, but conservative America is starting to seem like one big high school.

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Former – though the media much prefer the descriptor "disgraced" – police commission Bernard Kerik isn't just having his bad name tossed in the mud by New York tabloids. Now he's having it stripped from buildings. And not just any building, but one where some feel he should be headed: the Bernard B. Kerik Complex, aka the Manhattan jail lovingly referred to as The Tombs. Just hours after Kerik pleaesd guilty to corruption charges, Mayor Michael Bloomberg reversed former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's naming privilege and brought back the monicker Manhattan Detention Complex.

The mayor's decision took effect almost immediately. Between 1 and 3 a.m. yesterday, workers replaced the old signs bearing Mr. Kerik's name at the jail, at 125 White Street, with colorful plastic signs bearing the new name.

The change was so sudden that it startled, and pleased, some correction officers and visitors.

eBay lettering has a tendancy to startle, we're told.

Disgraced Commissioner Has Name Stripped Off Jail [Sewell Chan, NYT]

• What a great homecoming: Stepping off the plane and into handcuffs. [NYT]

• A proposal for metal detectors in New York movie theaters is laughed at, just like the box office numbres for Basic Instinct II. [NYSun]

• Taking bribes as police commissioner? Just pay it back and it's water under the bridge … or every A1 newspaper headline. [AP]

• Vendors are being robbed by the city, so they protest. But they still need their money, so it's right back to handing out food to those NYU kids and tourists. [MetroNY]

• A boat collides with a barge and two fishermen go missing. Which causes us to have great concern — about where we'll get our shrimp. [WABC]