• Slim Shady is single: Eminem and his muse Kim Mathers are getting divorced for the second time, less than a year after their remarriage. Look for "Kim II" to hit radio airwaves soon.
• Reverse the course: Revising his "Absolutely, we're winning" comment from two-months ago, President Bush is now admitting that "We're not winning." He also wants to increase troop levels, an idea that doesn't have everyone stoked.
• Gates to Iraq: Wet-behind-the-ears defense secretary Robert Gates has arrived in Iraq with his big bag of war-ravaged country-fixing tools—just 11 days after his predecessor's farewell tour.
• Fear of a Muslim country: Virginia Republican Rep. Virgil Goode warned his supporters that if they don't listen to his immigration policies there will be more Muslims in the U.S., and, God forbid, a Koran on his office wall.
• Farewell Abizaid: The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, has submitted his plans to retire in March. What, you think you can just quit?
• Sexy numbers: A new study reveals that, unsurprisingly, more than 90 percent of Americans have had premarital sex. It also said, "99 percent of respondents had had sex by age 44." That lonely, lonely 1 percent.