The Stephanie Miller Show - May 05 2010

• Hal Sparks calls in at some point during the show today from his world tour for another (abbreviated) edition of “Humpdays With Hal”

• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World

• Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old son of a retired official in Pakistan’s air force, was charged Tuesday with trying to blow up a crude gasoline and propane device inside a parked SUV amid tourists and Broadway theatergoers. He was in custody after being hauled off a Dubai-bound plane he boarded Monday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport despite being under surveillance and placed on the federal no-fly list.

• The best short-term solution to bottling up a disastrous oil spill threatening sealife and livelihoods along the Gulf Coast should be arriving on Wednesday in the form of a specially built giant concrete-and-steel box designed to siphon the oil away.

• A tentative agreement in hand, Dems and GOP still face an array of hurdles and uncertain timing over a Senate bill that would rein in financial institutions. The Senate has yet to take a vote on any amendment to the bill. The Senate’s GOP and Demc leaders bickered over timing. And while debate was well on its way, the endgame for the bill was far from clear.

• Stocks plunged around the world Tuesday as fears spread that Europe’s attempt to contain Greece’s debt crisis would fail. The euro fell to its lowest point against the dollar in a year.