Now here it is, Rick’s Moment of Zen, with Pete Dominick, satellite-radio host:

Dominick: How is [Jon Stewart] a bigot?

Sanchez: I think he looks at the world through, his mom, who was a school teacher, and his dad, who was a physicist or something like that. Great, I’m so happy that he grew up in a suburban middle class New Jersey home with everything you could ever imagine.

Dominick: What group is he bigoted towards?

Sanchez: Everybody else who’s not like him. Look at his show, I mean, what does he surround himself with?

Well, there’s Wyatt, and Aasif, and Sam, and Larry, and Kristen, and— yes, Rick, you have more?

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Let’s start with the news, which both the NY Post and the Daily News saw fit to fuss over yesterday. We’ll go with Rupert this round, because we like his photo better:

Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first letters.

Changing BROADWAY to Broadway will save lives, the Federal Highway Administration contends in its updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, citing improved readability.

At $110 per sign, it will also cost the state $27.6 million, city officials said.

The Post story is actually quite calm, compared to its rival:

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And when they say “Limited Edition Collector’s Box,” they ain’t kidding:

Charity-minded callers are getting intercepted by a sex phone line because of a misprint on Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco’s namesake cereal boxes.

The phone number is supposed to connect callers to Feed the Children, which benefits from sales of “Ochocinco’s.” But because the box has the wrong toll-free prefix, they get a seductive-sounding woman who makes risque suggestions and then asks for a credit card number.

That’s odd — when we called and asked for “Honey Nut Toasted,” that’s exactly what we expected.

Sex line on Chad Ochocinco’s cereal [ESPN, via Dodgerblue]

“This CNN episode ought to convince all conservatives that not only should O’Keefe’s behavior be condemned, but conservative leaders and organizations need to do a better job of assessing the maturity level and character of the people they hire, support, or praise.” [NRO]

“The number of ‘Better Know a District’ segments has plummeted in the past few years. In 2006, more than 40 segments aired. That number fell to a little over a dozen in 2007 and has fallen to less than 10 this year, according to POLITICO’s count.”

Oh, no! Sarah Palin has invaded our peace-loving website! What can you do to fight the menace? Click here, look at what appears in the upper left of the screen, then use your arrow keys to move, and your spacebar to Fire! Fire! Fire!

Oh, and don’t mind the collateral damage. War is Hell, y’know.

What? You don’t have a keyboard? You’re stabbing madly with your finger and nothing happens? Or — even worse — you’re using Explorer? You lose, pal.

Hello, want to kill some time? [GitHub, via Kottke]

Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn dies aged 88 [BBC]