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Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report talks about his book I Am America (And So Can You!). Colbert targets race, religion, sports and the American family as well as more mundane topics like breakfast cereal and the Hollywood blacklist.

From headlines worth an honorable mention, the birth of a buzzword, news of Dear Abby backing the right to same-sex marriage, and the story of a six-year-old who tried to drive to Applebee's.

Hitting the theaters this weekend? Mark Jordan Legan, with the online magazine Slate, has this week's Summary Judgment on the following weekend movie releases — The Heartbreak Kid, The Seeker and My Kid Could Paint That.

What do Sting, Dan Fogelberg and Rush drummer Neil Peart all have in common? They've just made Blender magazine's list of rock's worst lyricists. Blender's senior critic John Dolan talks about some of his favorite bad lyricists.

Eight years before the National Museum of African American History and Culture even opens its doors, patrons can pay a virtual visit. The museum's director, Lonnie Bunch, talks about the launch of the long-awaited cultural museum on the Web.

The broadcast is over, but the show continues all day on our blog.

Hang out in Bryant Park all day, or at least swing by the blog.

The latest in a string of lost-children dramas, well acted and reasonably affecting — if a little heavy on the plot coincidences linking a hit-and-run driver (Mark Ruffalo) and a grieving father (Joaquin Phoenix).

British writer Doris Lessing, 87, is the of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. Also, Timothy Noah, with the online magazine Slate, offers a humorous take on the "race" for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Last week, Lisa Moore, a character in the "Funky Winkerbean" comic strip, lost her eight-year fight with breast cancer. The story line has garnered mixed reactions — some readers applaud the strip's approach to weighty topics; others argue that comics should simply be funny.