This week's Brilliant List-

1) Christopher Mathews bitch-slapping around Michelle "Interning all the Japanese Americans during WWII wasn't such a bad idea" Malkin- wow a cable station talk show host refusing to let a guess throw slimy rumours around? Now how about that?

2) "La Dolce Vita" at the Castro- Anita Ekberg: wow

3) The Bush Twins attending the Gay Wedding of their eyebrow waxer (eyebrow waxer?)- wonder how that conversation at the dinner table went? By the way, it looks like Barbara got her nose fixed. What would Jesus do?

4) The Men's Basketball Team getting kicked out of the Olympics- call me a purist, call me what you will, but I kind of like Olympic athletes better when they don't live in the kinds of houses that are shown on MTV Cribs.

5) Trey Parker & Matt Stone telling the NY Times that they went to the 2000 Academy Awards on acid- that rocks

And, of course, goodbye temping, hello bling-bling

And the not so Brilliant List

- The fact that the 49'ers/Raiders pre-season game, last week was broadcast on not one but two channels at the same time. But wait, there's more! A day later, another station played a rebroadcast of it. All this for a game in which the coaches were so afraid of getting a starter hurt that by the fourth quarter, they were playing the players' entourage. And for those who watched the rebroadcast, there's something called life. Get one.