• Happy Iraq Study Group Report Day, everybody!: Some of the words and terms that jumped out at us from the most highly-anticipated bipartisan report of the year:
- grave
- deteriorating
- "Pessimism is pervasive"
- deteriorate
- severe
- "slide towards chaos"
- "humanitarian catastrophe"
- polarized
- flaws
And that's just from the intro!

• A star is shorn: Us Weekly has a fuzzy interview with intrepid bushwhacker Cindy Barshop about how and why her client Paris Hilton and her new BFF/fellow baldy Britney Spears like to be groomed within an inch of their puberty.

• Water on Mars?: Sure. Whatever works.