In the spirit of my story about the stupid marketing campaign for the WW2 memorial in Berlin, Germany, comes an equally stupid marketing campaign from PETA.

Want fries with your whale, sir?

It’s official. Something is definitely wrong with the world. You want proof? Billy Bob Thornton will perform a nude scene with Halle Berry in an upcoming movie. Let’s see. That’s Berry, Jolie, that chick he dumped for Jolie, and who knows who else. Did anyone happen to tell these women that Billy Bob looks like a dead crack addict who’s come back to life just to start a heroin habit?

Former President Bill Clinton has penned a deal to pen his memoirs, and gotten a $10 million advance in the process. Robert Gottlieb will edit the book, which is planned for a 2003 release by publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Other authors edited by Gottlieb include Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the late historian Barbara Tuchman and the late publisher Katharine Graham - each of whom Clinton apparently tried to bed at some point.