Colbert to Jon: I was thinking of committing a premeditated murder tonite. you want in?
And: the author of Thank You for Smoking, Christopher Buckley, is here. you know what? that Joe Camel satin jacket was thanks enough. but this book was published yrs ago, in my P&P days, so 10 yrs? - yes: 1994. (to colbert: you were in diapers then. c: yes. well, not my own, but yes. he's so quick!) being reissued with black cover (instead of that busier one with green edging, so ok now maybe I will pick it up) because a movie of it is being released.

then, asking for respect of his right to be heterosexual (after report that for every older brother, you are a certain% more likely to be gay -- with which Colbert says he has seven problems and names his seven older brothers): hey-- I respect your right to be discriminated against by choosing to be gay.

Christopher Buckley seems cool. even more important to make a (and I needed to reassure myself of his) distinction from Christopher Hitchens who wrote that dumb response against Garrison Keillor's review of Bernard-Henri Levy's book on America. -my 2/17 dlww post of that-. to remind, in sum: Levy eh, Keillor snap, Hitchens eh. I have trouble spelling each of their names! the order of HBL and of the e&i in Kiellor...ok it is e before i (Keillor is suggested, with 274000 hits when I type garrison k.. into ggl, whereas if I continue kiell it is there but only 686 hits. a sort of tally of how common this mis-spelling - not so very). I think the BHL issue is more belabored but checking the NYtimes Keillor article, seems the answer is: Bernard-Henri Lévy. get.it.straight.