Excerpt: DID you hear what Howard Stern said the other day about retiring when his contract expires in two years. "This is my swan song," he said.

Mr. Stern is the infamous, ribald radio jock who once commanded attention with each off-color utterance and obscene joke when he was on free radio and had an audience of 12 million back in the day…..is thinking about calling it quits.

That was before Howard went to Sirius radio for the big money with a $500 million, five-year deal which fueled a high-stakes competition between Sirius and XM radio companies, the two services that have since merged into one conglomerate.