• Not-so high bidder: We knew it would come to this. Veronica Hearst sold her Palm Beach mansion at a foreclosure auction on Monday. Villa Venezia, once listed for $27 million, went for just $22 million.
• Flesh for fantasy: Jailed college coed videographer Joe Francis's much discussed Girls Gone Wild mag finally gets a due-date: April 2008.
PLUS: Mike Huckabee likes life, Karl Rove hates 60 Minutes, and what antidepressants don't do (HINT: work).
• How he likes his eggs: Mike Huckabee found time in between his late-night show visits to endorse a proposed Colorado Human Life Amendment that would define personhood as a fertilized egg.
• Rove missile: New Fox New-ser Karl Rove calls CBS the "National Enquirer of network news" for the handling of a 60 Minutes story claiming he used a Republican operative to dig up dirt on Alabama governor Don Siegelman.
• Get happy: A British study finds that antidepressants are only slightly more effective than placebos and are of use to only the severely depressed. Refill, please!
• Silent justice: Unlike his chatty-Cathy colleagues, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas hasn't asked a question in court in more than two years. "One thing I've demonstrated often in 16 years is you can do this job without asking a single question."
• Tough times: Compounding its recent disasters ($20 billion in mortgage-related write-downs, the forced exit of its chief exec, falling share prices), banking giant Citigroup discloses the loss of more than $100 million on 15 separate days last year.