Well, there you have it folks. Young Barack toked up and got gacked out. And he didn't equivocate -- I didn't inhale, yeah right, dude -- he just said he was a dumb kid who liked to get stoned and looking back he learned from his youthful indiscretions. While we aren't condoning drug use, we sure are glad he talked about his early life with honesty. There are a lot of numbed-out youth who need to see there is hope, even for those who aren't perfect.

Speaking of Obama, we rather doubt that he would be less well-received than Mrs. Clinton among the world's leaders. While she is well-known, he'd probably be well-liked, particularly by the 'anyone but Bush' set.

Ric Flair, one of our fave bigtime wrasslers of all time, supports Mike Huckabee. Whoooooo. Nature Boy. We sure do miss him and also Gordon Solie.

In other important national news: Jennie Garth did not deserve to get the boot off of "Dancing with the Stars." Her cha-cha was amazing.

Counting the moments before we put up our hot pink Christmas tree with the black feather boa tinsel. We're fairly sure it'd make Liberace proud. We'll try to post a photograph. We're hellbent on having a Mickey Rourke kind of holiday

Sometimes late at night when we can't sleep we turn on the Art Bell radio show and bask in the radiance of its weirdness. "And while I was up in the space craft ... " Golly it's a goodie.

Allow us to get this off our chest: GO GATORS. BEAT FSU. While on this SEC rant, memo to Kenny Chesney and his Volunteer bigwig buddies: Steve Spurrier, right up the road, Tennessee native and you guys probably need a new coach. Go get him!

It's gonna cost us $189 to properly bling out our Crackberry, according to reliable online estimates. That's a lot of cash for something so frivolous, but we secretly hope that Santa is listening. We want to make it super pretty in hot pink crystals. We also need new reading glasses, in hot pink. We've lost two pairs and we totally are missing our Barbie specs. Also, we've been very good so we'd like a Harry Potter wand.

-- Andrea Billups, The Washington Times