Rummy's comin' to town

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will present the 146th Landon Lecture at Kansas State University on Nov. 9.

The lecture is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. in Bramlage Coliseum. Admission will be restricted to Kansas State students, faculty and staff members, Landon Lecture patrons, and a contingent of military service members from Fort Riley.

Oh, joy. And thus campus becomes a nuthouse again. I think this sounds like a good day to take off.

Picspam Lostnesday

No spoilers for tonight's episode herein. Well, okay, one in white text at the very end. Otherwise, one cheap Lost dig, a few Halloween remnants, and, of course, more cats.

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Yin, yang on the tube

Emmy award winner Eddie Izzard is no longer part of the hit TV drama 24 - after completing only one day of filming. The cross-dressing comedian quietly parted with the show and is currently working on his upcoming TV series The Riches with fellow Brit Minnie Driver, which was picked up by the FX network in September. Izzard has been replaced by British actor David Hunt, husband of former Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton. Hunt will take over the role and play a villainous accomplice on the show named McCarthy.

NBC Universal CEO Robert Wright has denied reports that Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is about to be canceled. In an interview with FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman, who originally quoted insiders as saying that the show was about to be yanked from the network's schedule, Wright said such a move was unlikely because "We have too much money invested in it. ... I think it will go on."

Just one last sentence about Lost....

( Spoilers, ya rly. )