All you non-TV-watchers can skip this one. Very lowbrow, no possible int’rest, eh?

Now for us survival-in-the-wilderness watchers, gather round. So the NYT breaks the story of

To watch Bear Grylls on his program “Man vs. Wild” is to be in a constant state of disbelief —

to note that, shock! disbelief is entirely justified. Dude’s been faking half the shit he supposedly does all singlehanded and all. The commentors—this is one of NYT’s “bloggy” things you see—respond extensively. A shame we cannot similarly comment on the Gonzales hearings.

But back to the Important Stuff of Breaking News Importance: Corrente brings you exclusive news that Mr. Grylls’ major competitor, and predecessor in the TV Survivalist biz, “Survivorman” Les Stroud (an infintely superior show anyway imho) has been caught with his knickers in a prairie-dog trap too. From yesterday’s NPS Morning Report:

On July 16th, park resource management specialist Mike Tetreau, currently an intermittent employee working with a private firm conducting follow-up studies related to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill along the park coastline, found an apparent commercial filming production in Taroka Arm, a seldom-visited area along the park’s southern coast. In addition to the campsite “set” itself, a nearby support crew camp was located near a sensitive archaeological site. Ranger Sean Brennan, currently on detail as a criminal investigator assignment with the NPS Investigative Services Branch, flew to the site by chartered float plane the following day with Tetreau and contacted Les Stroud, also known as the “Survivorman”, who has a show by the same name currently running on the Discovery Channel.  Read more 

This seems to be the day for Cheap Little Republican Sleazeballs to be getting their long overdue comeuppance for breathtaking lapses from anything resembling proper behavior. Besides our oklahoma judge we now have Bernie Kerik, the only person I know of whom it can be said that Michael “Skeletor” Jerkoff Chertoff is demonstrably better than:

A year and a half after his Homeland Security nomination sank over ethics questions, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty Friday to charges he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in gifts while he was a top city official.  Read more