Here's an idea. Move the gas.
New York State of mind
John Hall, who co-wrote the 1976 pop hit "Still the One" when he was part of the group Orleans, is running against six-term Congresswoman Sue Kelly in an upstate New York district encompassing West Point.
Hall, an ex-county legislator, has already received support from Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, and a concert featuring Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle is in the works. Bruce Springsteen and Clive Davis have also contributed to his campaign.
In 2004, Hall demanded that President Bush's re-election campaign stop using "Still the One" at rallies, claiming the Bush camp never got permission.
'Lethal Weapon 5: Mel's Mouth'
Tattle's willing to concede that "The Passion of the Christ" wasn't anti-Semitic.
Mel Gibson? He's another story.
Gibson, who should probably keep his mouth shut even when he's not drunk, issued a statement Saturday apologizing for saying "despicable" things to sheriff's deputies when he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and stupidity.
"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable," Gibson said.
TMZ.com broke the story with four pages from the arrest report, which quoted Mel as launching an expletive-laden "barrage of anti-Semitic remarks" after he was stopped early Friday in Malibu.
According to the report, in addition to threatening the arresting deputy and trying to escape, Gibson said, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asked the officer, James Mee, "Are you a Jew?"
It seems the Jews are also responsible for constantly refilling Gibson's glass, for his heavy foot and for his inability to keep his 2006 Lexus LS230 within the lines. Darn those Jews for making the speed limit 45 in an area in which Mel chose to drive 87.
