Judith Regan has a witness who will testify that she didn’t say a “Jewish cabal” at HarperCollins was out to get her:

Attorney Bert Fields said that the employee, Carmen del Toro, is prepared to testify that Regan “is telling the absolute truth, that she did not make the anti-Semitic remark attributed to her.”

Hmm. This news is released on Christmas Day.

Let’s get down to business
I don’t got no time to play around what is this?
Must be a circus in town, let’s shut the shit down
On these clowns, can I get a witness?

—Eminem, “Business”

Here’s the divine Emmylou Harris singing “Love and Happiness“*** from

All the Roadrunning, by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, an inspired—and inspiring—collaboration.

——-
*** The You Tube clip is a bootleg—amateurish video layered over Emmylou singing this song live in November 2006. I think it’s the only live performance of this song available online. You Tube doesn’t permit embedding. View at your own risk. Yadda yadda yadda.

The clip sucks. Listen to the MP3 instead (click on the link above and scroll halfway down the page of the blog post that shows up, and thanks to the blog owner for the MP3).

Better yet: buy the disk. You will want to own it. I promise.

James Brown, R.I.P: