Have I mentioned lately that Howard Kurtz is a chucklehead? He finds the following story "pretty amazing."

"Princess Diana claimed there was a plot to kill her in a car crash in a handwritten letter only 10 months before she died. She gave it to her butler Paul Burrell with orders that he should keep it as 'insurance' for the future.

"The princess predicted: 'This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous.' She said 'XXXXXXXXXXX is planning "an accident" in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry.'

"In the letter, revealed by the Daily Mirror today, Diana named who she believed was plotting to kill her. But the Mirror is not able to repeat the allegation for legal reasons so we have blanked that part of the letter out. . . .

Amazing... except that the car accident was caused by the drunken chauffuer of Diana's idiot boyfriend and photographers chasing the vehicle, not brake failure. And the fact that a letter accusing someone of a crime provides very little worthwhile "insurance" after you've sustained a serious head injury.

For the love of humanity, please don't tell Howie that Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.