FURTHERMORE . . .

Chicago isn't the only city to suffer the loss of a super sports event. Reports the Washington Blade: In an announcement made Tuesday in Cologne, Germany, the International Federation of Gay Games said it picked Cleveland over D.C. to host the quadrennial LGBT sports competition, which is expected to draw as many as 12,000 athletes and 80,000 spectators to the host city. The announcement came during a news conference that was broadcast live online. Among those attending was a delegation of about 15 people from D.C. who helped organize the District's $1 million bid for the games.

Daily Beast - Seven months of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's appointment calendars [show] that the CEOs of Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs appear to have a direct line to his office. During those seven months, he spoke to these men at least 80 times. Sometimes, he spoke to the CEOs several times a day.

Radar - TV doctor Dr. Phil McGraw and Paramount Pictures are being sued by an Irvine, California woman, who is claiming both parties subjected her to imprisonment beyond her will, and more, when she was at his Hollywood, California office for therapeutic purposes two years ago. "Dr. Phil hurt me and many other people," Shirley Dieu, who also claims McGraw misrepresented himself as a licensed doctor, said. "It happened on his show in 2007; I also filed a police report in Los Angeles about a year ago." Dieu said was sleep-deprived, starved, brainwashed and "subjected to edited tapings depicting her as a different personality other than her own." Dieu said that, under their stead, she was not allowed to leave a building in the 6000 block of Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood, California, where she said she was "forced to be in the same room with a naked live man while he exposed his entire naked body, genitals and all."

Wonkette describes Joe Lieberman as "the actual human equivalent of a chain letter forwarded to you by your grandparents."