Many of you have ordered copies of June Foray's autobiography, advertised here and available through www.juneforay.com. You oughta know that this coming Wednesday, June will be signing all the copies ordered so far and they'll be tossed in the mail immediately after that. So if you're eagerly awaiting yours, that's the timetable.

If you haven't ordered yours, now is the time. Get your order in before Tuesday night so it can be included in this week's signing. Thereafter, she'll be autographing them every ten days or so.

In the meantime, above is another photo from June's files that didn't get into the book. It's a shot of her in the early eighties with Ray Bradbury and the great animator, Grim Natwick. Grim left us in 1990, two months after he turned one hundred years old. Ray, we're happy to say, is still with us. In fact, he's celebrating his 89th birthday today. So Happy 89 to the world's greatest writer of fantasy tales and an inspiration to many, many generations.

My favorite interviewer, Paul Harris, had a nice chat the other day with songwriting superstars Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It's online and you might like to listen in.

A company called Urban Outfitters is now selling Polaroid cameras and film…the last ever, it's said.

Last night, Jon Stewart's guest was Betsy McCaughey, a former Lieutentant Governor of New York who keeps popping up in health care debates to spread what even some who kinda side with her describe as misinformation. She's been given a lot of credit for crafting lies — and I'm convinced they were, pure and simple, premeditated lies — that sank the "Hillarycare" initiative. She seems to have helped launch the "death panels" whopper about the current proposals. The interview ran long and was truncated for air but you can watch the whole thing over at the Daily Show website. (I'd embed it but they're probably getting so many hits over there than an embed here would move like you were connected to the Internet via a Dixie Cup and string.)

It was one of those interviews where your reaction will depend a lot on what you want to believe. If you think, as I do, that we're in a place where some people will say (and even convince themselves of) any stupid thing that will kill "Obamacare," then Stewart eviscerated her. If you want to see the proposals nuked, then I guess she held her own in a hostile environment. There were many spots throughout the discussion where I wished that one had let the other finish a sentence that was already in progress.

James Fallows points out some of the flaws in her argument…and Mr. Stewart came close to a point I think should be made in all this. Even if you can somehow parse and twist some clause in the bill to seem to say that doctors will be rewarded for forcing patients to adhere to advanced directives if they change their minds, that's not anyone's intent. There is, in any doctor-patient relationship, a certain amount of minimal trust that has to exist. They all hinge on the presumption that your doctor, whoever he or she is and whatever the laws may be, isn't sitting there thinking that they can make an extra $25 if they prescribe what's bad for you. If your doctor's thinking like that, you're in big trouble, regardless of how the laws are written…or even if nothing gets changed.

This story is on the wires now…

Former US homeland security chief Tom Ridge charges in a new book that top aides to then-president George W. Bush pressured him to raise the "terror alert" level on the eve of the November 2004 US election.

Gee, Tom, thanks for telling us about that now. Any other evidence of wrongdoing you withheld until no one could be held accountable and you could use it to sell a book?

A new poll from the Public Policy Polling People (who I suspect used to make Clean Copper Clappers) confirms something I've suspected since this whole silliness began about Barack Obama's birthplace. A number of those who say they don't believe he was born in the United States say that because they don't believe Hawaii is part of the United States.

You all know about the Monty Python Reunion, right? Okay, so it's only one night of being honored and questioned. It's something.

Comedy Central broadcasts each episode of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report several times a day. Can anyone here explain why the second broadcasts of each are now starting at eight minutes past their announced times? On my satellite dish, the first broadcasts are supposed to be at 8:00 PM and 8:30 PM, and the second ones at 11:00 PM and 11:30 PM. Lately, the second broadcasts have been more like 11:08 PM and 11:38 PM. What's running over and why?