Jenny the Scappoose Pug has an admirer. Super cute!

Yes, my ridiculous tease this morning about Mindy McCready’s uncle hitting on her was about Uncle SAM, hitting on her for INFO.  Ha ha ha….ha?  Because Mindy’s former boyfriend Roger Clemens is currently being investigated by the feds for illegal steroid use, Mindy has already been questioned as someone who might have info relevant to the case (she says they were together when she was 16 and he was 29.)  But now that she is blabbing on the new adult video, “Baseball Mistress,” about Roger’s skills in terms of “hitting homeruns” and whatnot, will this match up with whatever she told them before?  Inability to “bat 1000″ is a side effect of excessive steroid use, so this info could actually be relevant to their case.  What a great government job that would be, right?  Quizzing crazy celebs about the gory details of their underage affairs?  fun, fun, fun!

ESPN did a poll to find out who the hottest hockey spouse is.  Kind of sad, because the winner by a landslide is Carrie Underwood, who is ENGAGED, not married, to Ottowa Senator Mike Fisher.  She gets 48% of the vote, with “actress/model”  Willa Ford pulling in 10% and Hilary Duff (also just engaged to a player) pulling in 6%.  I wonder how the actual hockey wives feel about the fact that a fiancee tops the list.

This Thursday night, Sarah Palin’s new TV show, “Real American Stories” debuts on the Fox News Channel, and among the people Sarah wants you to meet is Toby Keith.  He’ll talk about his hit song “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue”, while others on the show include a Marine hero, a stock broker who’s helping struggling college students, and LL Cool J (kindof random…do you think she has a crush?).  The show airs Thursday and then again on Sunday night if you miss it the first time.

Some of the most bizarre or silly signs of all time.  See them all at this link

When it comes to trashy celebrity cliches, Mindy McCready just never disappoints, does she?  She’s heavily publicized every step of her struggle to overcome addiction and abuse, with many tearful confessions and revelations.  So now the latest, which probably won’t shock you:  It’s “Baseball Mistress,”  an adult film starring Mindy and a “boyfriend” named “Peter,” doing what you would expect on that type of tape.  What IS surprising is all the chit chat, in which Mindy dishes on all of her famous exes, from former superman Dean Cain to Roger Clemens, who she says she was with at age 16 when he was 29.  Using lots of baseball terms, Mindy manages to convey that Roger couldn’t always hit homeruns, and so forth and so on.  She also says Oprah is a racist.  But what shocks me the most is that she supposedly blabs about an affair she had with Alan Jackson.  Yikes.  Yuck.  Ugly.  We know Alan had marriage trouble a while back, but why-oh-why does she feel like it’s cool to talk about all of this stuff on tape????!!!!  She drives me nuts, I gotta tell you.  But here I am writing about it, so she wins, I guess.  Dang it.

…Alan Jackson and Gretchen Wilson.  Gretchen says hers, “I Got Your Country Right Here” is a totally new approach for her since she was completely in charge of every single bit of it (She’s started her own record label).  On the other end of the spectrum, Alan Jackson says “Freight Train,”  his new one, is pretty much exactly like everything else he’s ever done.  I love this!  Most people feel like they have to say stuff like, “I’m going in a new direction, you’ve never heard me like this,” and so on.  But not AJ!  He knows that the way he does things works, and so why should he fix anything?  Gotta love that.