Wow ... it seems we touched a nerve on Friday with readers around the nation, so to be magnanimous, today we offer our sincerest apologies to Lexus/Audi/Benz/Porsche-driving cat hoarders everywhere.

Who knew that those who like cats also own great cars? Terrific stuff.

Power to the people, y'all.

We went shopping for our birthday weekend and now we have two new pairs of Ugg boots. No, we could not stop ourselves. AS IF. We are also on a first name basis with the personal shopper at Neiman Marcus. It is good to have friends in retail places.

This just in from the KARMA POLICE: O.J. Simpson arrested on felony charges in Vegas. No, of course he didn't hold the gun, he just did the threatening this time. Truly this is a guy who seems like he very much does not think the law applies to him. So, you just walk into a random hotel room and threaten people to get your stuff back? Dude ... Be very careful people, the universe IS keeping score -- and Johnnie Cochran is dead.

We are no election genius or one of the strategist folks on Fox News, but here's what we've been thinking: Hillary, while ahead in the polls, weighs in on difficult issues like health care and then goes toe to toe with Giuiliani over the war, because she can't resist and boom ... what little likeability ground she's gained in these past few months evaporates ... and there is the Obama window and with all that Oprah money, he looks fresh and untainted and she looks hard and mean and comes with lots of baggage.

She's in a tough spot and this is the chick factor TOTALLY at play: Can you be a woman and be tough and fight back and still come off as likeable? Thatcherish ... there's the word for it. If she wants to win, she'll have to be more Thatcherish. But ultimately that will mean she can't strategize with her finger in the wind or make policy by the polls. We can feel the wheels coming off. We really can.

If we were Barack Obama, we'd probably secretly be wishing our wife, Little Miss Candid, was a little more discreet. She's killing his mystique.

Our better half wants to use minoxidil to grow hair -- on the dog. He's not a freak or anything. It's a long story. She got shaved and it won't grow back. It's not a good look.

Last night was the Emmy Awards, one of our fave television nights of EVERY year. We clung to the family divan -- a 40 between our knees -- in anticipation of all of the fashion gaffes and the self-absorbed speeches. Thus, our fabulous Miss Andrea round-up on everything telly:

That Jersey Boys music number saved the whole darned night. Memo to self: must see more Broadway this year.

One of the coolest things about Paulie Walnuts is that in real life, he seems nearly the same as his Soprano's character -- minus the sociopathic tendencies, natch. Where do they get guys like that? Wait ... but of course ... Jersey, Long Island.

We don't necessarily think Al Gore is aging gracefully. Mebbe he eats because he is worried about the planet? We think James Spader must be feasting upon the same chow as his castmate William Shatner. He looks so middle-aged and we used to think he was hot.

To Sally Field: They beeped your war speech, honey. We appreciated the free expression and all the celebrity peace quacking but ... this is a TV show, not real life, and you're an actor and we don't care so much what you think. Sigh ... they all think they have power, no?

"If I were to categorize your natures, it would be generosity above all," says Brit Helen Mirren of the American spirit. True that, Crumpets. True that.

We think Jeremy Piven deserved his award for inhabiting a character who is as true to the Hollywood machine as we have seen. We love how he makes us nervous with his insouciance. His cast is fab, too.

Vanessa Williams gets prettier every year she gets older. So does Kyra Sedgwick.

Katherine Heigl (a D.C. native) is physical perfection. She channels old Hollywood but in such a modern and accessible way. Saucy yet sweet.

We like Ryan Seacrest most of all because he works really hard, but we give him a grade D as host. Not so funny. Not at all edgy. We should not have turned them down this year.

Robert Duvall certainly deserves an Emmy and every other award they wanna give him. He's pretty darned magic in just about everything he does. He's right, too. We all secretly wanna be in a Western, right? Sometimes late at night we ride the pony at the grocery store and pretend. It only costs a nickel. (see YouTube.) Guilty ... yippee yo, ki-ay.

-- Andrea Billups, The Washington Times