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Earlier this week, Ellen DeGeneres was quoted in the Los Angeles Times saying that she and her girlfriend, actress Anne Heche, had fired their agents and publicists and were leaving Hollywood--they were sick of the homophobia they'd experienced since coming out as lesbians last year.
Howard Kurtz, in his WP media column, reports that David Brock, the darling of the rabid right when he went after Anita Hill in his first book, but who then fell out of favor when he didn't do a similar number on Hillary Clinton in his second one, has been fired from his staff writer job at the American Spectator .
An Israeli soldier with a record of mental illness fired into an Arab marketplace in Hebron without provocation, wounding seven civilians.
(Wasn't someone fired from his campaign for issuing that initial "no"?)
The runner-up goat was Falcons Coach Dan Reeves, whose defeat at the hands of his former quarterback (Elway) and an assistant coach he fired seven years ago (Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan), made Reeves 0-4 in the Super Bowl.