• "Pig" vs. "Snake-oil salesman," Round XIII: Barbara Walters and Rosie O'Donnell kiss and make-up over TrumpGate, proving once and for all that mutual hatred of Donald is often the easiest exit strategy from any messy public imbroglio.

• Quality control: Bush claims to be as disturbed by the grainy cell-phone video of Saddam Hussein's hanging as he was by the grainy images of detainee abuse from Abu Ghraib and vows to provide all future executioners and military practitioners of torture with state-of-the-art Nikons.

• Fear of another Princess Diane moment: Rupert Murdoch's News International group puts a moratorium on its papers printing "intrusive" photos of Kate Middleton, Prince Williams's current girlfriend and rumored future Queen.