Matt Taibbi plugged his new-ish book, "Spanking the Donkey," and spoke to Jon Stewart about covering the presidential race in a gorilla suit, working for the Bush campaign and the ways in which the press corps is like a bunch of high-school kids. Click here to go to Comedy Central's online video library and scroll down to find Taibbi's interview.

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At least that's what St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Bill McClellan says in yesterday's column. He writes that Ray Hartmann, who founded the St. Louis alt-weekly in 1977, has transformed from "a successful man in a hip business" and a "bachelor of some notoriety" to a "thoroughly domesticated" man holding an incontinent cat at an airport security checkpoint. (He sounds happy, though.)

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