Don't Play It Again, Boris: The perils of traveling by air reached a new altitude this weekend when United Airlines had to toss the entire St. Petersburg Philharmonic of an Amsterdam to LA flight when the plane landed at Washington's Dulles Airport. Seems they were so drunk and disruptive that after 90 minutes of trying to get them to chill, airline officials had had it and gave them all the heave ho.

Credit Where Credit Is Due: The ever delightful Page Six quickly jumps to take credit for telling us last summer that Gary Condit was into some really kinky stuff in his private life. Sorry, guys, but John LeBoutillier, in an online column so hot he had to distribute it privately, had the story first in all its fetishy details. The Washington Post's agenda driven gossip column, Reliable Source, hooted at the story when it was back handed to them. All this proves that if you wait long enough - the truth will out.

Finally, Some Respect: Long time Ldotters know certain members of our staff have a "thing" for the Other Pink Meat - Spam. Either as an artistic substance, as in sculpted centerpieces of swans or as a daily staple. With them in mind we cite coverage by the Vallejo (CA) Times-Herald of the annual Spam-O-Rama at the Hotel del Rio and wish we had known in time to submit our Pepsi Marinade Spam Bake with Crushed Cheerio Crust. Maybe next year.

Euro Who? Dubya, in a brave and sane move, is forcing people to focus on the irrelevance of Europe and putting the world community wise to the weenie ways of Eurocrats. From a report last week, even their new money is literally falling apart. Here the London Times takes a look and the fresh new attitude of this administration.

Was It The Dimples? Michael Wolff goes absolutely ga-ga as he twinkles on and on about George Stephanopoulos in this week's New York Magazine, calling him a "plush toy," "riveting" "darling" and more. All this to make the point that George isn't gay and has escaped the Clinton "odor." If that's true how come we smell something. It's enough to gag a hairdresser.

Dubya's off to the DMZ. We are off to search for more news to feed your Ldot addiction.

-Your On The Job LComStaff

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002