Thursday digest

- Democratic National Committee chair and "C minus general" Howard Dean, pictured above, has been tapped to deliver the keynote address at the Liberal leadership convention in a couple of weeks' time.

You'd think that a Canadian political party inviting a former US presidential candidate to address its leadership convention would be something CBC would be all over.

However, despite this story being around for a couple of weeks, I haven't heard a peep out of them.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why.

Certainly this leaves the door open for the Conservatives to invite Newt Gingrich or some such Republican figure to appear at a future party gathering without worrying about negative coverage from the state broadcaster, right?!?

- Check out the new words in this article: "bloggorhea", "celebutard" and "celebutante vaginalist", all yours to shamelessly steal.

- Isn't it good of OJ Simpson to take time away from his relentless search for the real killers to tell us how he would have committed the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman?