• Red faced: First Lady Laura Bush and three other women wore the same $8,500 Oscar de la Renta dress to the White House Christmas party. She changed her outfit since her husband has famously come out against cloning.

• President says, "It's bad in Iraq": World says, "No duh." Someone's starting to sound like a Surrender Monkey to us.

• There're vegetables in Taco Bell?: Authorities are blaming scallions for the E. coli outbreak at Taco Bell.

• Do they mean "online at the congressional cafeteria"?: Senators Charles Schumer and John McCain are planning to introduce a bill aimed at curbing sex offenders who prey on kids online. MySpace had already voluntarily begun this process earlier this week.

• Can't touch this: The casket of Alexander Litvinenko has been refused by a U.K. mosque because radioactive particles from the body remain dangerous.