He’s Baaaaack: Former New York Mayor Ed...

He’s Baaaaack: Former New York Mayor Ed Koch was up to his usual antics Wednesday night during a cruise in the waters off Manhattan. He almost jumped out of his seat when he spied the mayoral mansion on the East River. “Dave!” he yelled, pretending to scan the shoreline for its current resident, Mayor David Dinkins. “It’s me! Ed! I’m home!” Dinkins clipped Koch in the run for mayor in 1989.

Quick Action: Secret Service officer Steven A. Hall plunged into an outdoor White House pool Tuesday to reach presidential granddaughter Marshall Bush, 5, when she appeared to be in danger. It looked as if her pet golden retriever, Katie, was holding her underwater. Hall plunged in fully clothed and pulled the child from the water, but Marshall is an excellent swimmer and was not actually in any danger. Her father is Marvin Bush, one of the President’s sons.

Butt Out: Ted Turner says he is ridding his 105,000-acre Montana ranch of all its cows and replacing them with 7,000 bison because they are prettier and treat the environment better. “Buffaloes are . . . better-looking than cows. They don’t have fat all over their butts,” he said Wednesday in Estes Park, Colo. Cattle farmers are overgrazing the West, he said, turning the land into desert. “We’ve got to change our political agenda to a more activist stance. I don’t like controversy, but I hate to see people being so stupid.”

Is the Music Video Next?: The arrest of a couple for having sex inside their Tampa, Fla., home after a neighbor videotaped them through a window has inspired the song “Sex Behind the Mini-Blinds.” Janet Paddock, 32, and Alfred Stephens, 36, were videotaped July 16 by a neighbor outraged that the couple could be seen in their bathroom through open blinds. A chorus of Tom Downs’ song: “One minute you’re making magic, then you’re making license plates, because priorities are twisted here in these United States.”