PINKO DAILY BRIEFS: A long, lazy holiday weekend awaits, so the news is a little slow. Barack Obama is on vacation being chased by photographers while he scattered his grandmother's ashes. CLASSY. A few good stories today though. Editor and Publisher is reporting that Bill Kristol, America's most inept columnists, might get the axe at the New York Times. Staying on bad reporting, Grist has a great contest going: Voters can choose the worst piece of climate reporting from 2008. Camille Paglia you're DONE. If climate change still has you down, make a drink! I found this wild recipe for coffee-vodka. How perfect! Lastly two tributes. The playwright Harold Pinter died yesterday, and while the media has obscured some of his more political stances, he was a brave activist and a bawdy interview. His last sit down with a reporter was all about his love of cricket, and how cricket is better than sex. Finally, Eartha Kitt has died. We'll leave you with her doing an amazing Santa Baby from the early 60's.