According to the AP, the Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. The justices’ decision Tuesday includes no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU wanted the court to allow a lawsuit by the group and individuals over the warrantless wiretapping program. An appeals court dismissed the suit because the plaintiffs cannot prove their communications have been monitored. The government has refused to turn over information about the closely guarded program that could reveal who has been under surveillance. Nothing like having our civil liberties stomped on in the name of national security.

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If any of you saw the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, the image of Beyonce Knowles’ cringe-inducing beat poet intro to Tina Turner’s performance is still burned into your memory. As you’ll recall, Beyonce name-dropped several notable female singers in this intro including Aretha Franklin, finally focusing on Tina Turner. “There is one legend who has the essence of all of those things: the glamour, the soul, the passion, the strength, the talent,” said Knowles, strutting in hot pants. “Ladies and gentlemen. Stand on your feet and give it up for the queen.” This did not sit well with Aretha Franklin, Queen of Douchebags, er, I mean Soul.“I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers and Beyonce,” Franklin said in a statement issued by her publicist. “However, I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy.” Franklin ended her brief criticism on a gracious note, thanking the Grammys and the voting academy and saying, “love to Beyonce anyway.”Queen Aretha needs to take it down a notch.

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Paris Hilton left her cat at the vet almost two weeks ago and still hasn’t gone back to get her. And now, the woman from whom Paris adopted the cat says Paris can’t have the cat back — because she’s abandoned it!

According to TMZ, Paris adopted the cat — which she named Prada — at the Kris Kelly Foundation last May about a week before she headed to Lynwood Jail. After Paris was released, we’re told she knew she had to have Prada neutered, but didn’t get around to it until a few weeks ago, on January 30.

But here’s the problem — nobody came back for Prada! About a week later, Kris Kelly herself called Paris to find out what happened, but she still hasn’t heard back as to what to do with Paris’ pussy.

Paris’ people say this is nothing to meow about. The cat was to be dropped off to be neutered and then delivered to one of Paris’ peeps. That apparently hasn’t happened yet. But Kris tells us that it’s “a clear-cut case of abandonment” (no pun intended, we think) and has decided not to return the cat.

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Long Island Lolita and colossal douchebag, Amy Fisher, in this week’s Steppin’ Out magazine on her feelings toward Mary Jo Buttafuoco:

“Mary Jo is a nonentity. People are angry at me because I’m a millionaire. But guess what? So is Mary Jo! She made more millions off of what I did than what I made.”

“I feel no sympathy for Mary Jo the multimillionaire! The fact that Mary Jo has a bullet in her head means nothing! I still have silicone in my boobs, and you don’t hear me complaining. She can’t feel her bullet, and I can’t feel my silicone.”

According to Page Six, Fisher’s remarks come just one month after the soon-to-be-remarried Mary Jo blasted her on a Web radio show for releasing a hardcore porn video to make a fast buck on her faded notoriety. Sixteen years ago, high schooler Amy, who was having an affair with Mary Jo’s sleazeball husband, Joey, shot the unsuspecting and defenseless Mary Jo in the head - a cowardly act that put Fisher in the slammer for seven years.

“She’s no Jenna Jameson, she’s just a porn star . . . She tried to kill somebody, and now [she’s] making money off it,” fumed Mary Jo, who’s penning a tell-all about her ordeal. Fisher fires back to Hayden: “She’s trying to shop and peddle her wedding for money and she’s trying to sell a book, OK?” Fisher now admits she recently lied about Joey being her boyfriend again just to get a reality TV show and to “p - - - Mary Jo off. I know how to use the TV shows. They want ratings. It’s all a business, and they made millions off of me.”

But the bimbo claims she and Joey did have sex in the not-too-distant past. “But having sex with Joey wasn’t that great 17 years later. I was like, ‘Ewwwww.’ It wasn’t good at all,” she tells Hayden. “When he was the older man 17 years ago, he was just 33 years old. But now he’s 50 . . . He didn’t take care of himself at all. He’s got man boobs. So I quickly got sick of having sex with him. Our recent fling only lasted for a week.”

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Doris Lessing, who won the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize, predicted that if elected President, Barack Obama would surely be assassinated because he’s black. “They would murder him,” she reportedly told the Dagens Nyheter daily. She goes onto opine that Hillary would be a safer choice. Newsflash: Not all Americans are racist and the possibility of violence has never stopped our most inspired and effective leaders. Doris, my dear, you are a douchebag.

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On Thursday, MSNBC Douchebag David Schuster was guest-hosting Tucker Carlson’s show “Tucker” and in referring to Chelsea Clinton’s role in calling superdelegates on behalf of the Clinton presidential campaign, he asked whether she was “sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?”

Shuster, who apologized yesterday morning on MSNBC, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. However, according to Politico.com, Shuster was unrepentant before his Friday morning mea culpa. On Thursday night Schuster told longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines, who contacted Schuster in outrage about his remarks, that his commentary was justified because of the contrast between Chelsea Clinton’s overt political role and the aggressive way campaign aides “jump down the throat” of reporters who seek to question her about it.Methinks David Schuster is going to have to pimp himself out for a new job. Douchebag.

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