“No comedian’s wife thinks he’s funny,” Tommy Smothers says as he surveys the panoramic vista from his hilltop home and vineyard in the middle of Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon. “The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple…

Hospitality eBusiness Strategies Announces the 2009 Benchmark Survey; Survey to Measure Hotel Internet Marketing … (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Hospitality eBusiness Strategies announces the 2009 Benchmark Survey to measure hotel Internet marketing strategies, budget planning and best practices. General managers, revenue managers, sales and marketing managers, e-commerce managers and professionals at hotels, resorts, hotel management companies and hotel chains are invited to participate in the 2009 Benchmark Survey.

Slattery entered race aware it would be tough (The Wichita Eagle)
Jim Slattery knows he’s the underdog. He sees it every day. The 60-year-old former congressman from Topeka has little money to respond to attack ads. His staff appears minuscule compared with the volunteers and paid employees assembled on behalf of his opponent, Sen. Pat Roberts. “The differences between being a challenger and an incumbent are just amazing,” he said as he left a campaign …

Around the Big East (USA Today)
Around the Big East

Lehigh Acres Mailbag (The News-Press)
A few years back the people of Lee County committed fiscal suicide. They elected active-duty firemen to the boards of fire commissioner, effectively putting egg-sucking weasels in charge of the hen house.