Here's a verison of that now famous Situation Room picture for those of you who are frightened that it might turn you on. "The Hasidic newspaper will not intentionally include any images of women in the paper because it could be considered sexually suggestive."

I'm so pleased to report that yesterday's story about Mierle Ukeles is, as I suspected, a bit too pat to be true. (It contains "wisps of truths," she says—and they're good wisps!) I'm pleased because I loved the story but I disliked the moral. Also? Hillary Clinton was just coughing in the situation room in that already-famous photograph. This is the deal with narrative, am I right?

Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer has a book coming out about that administration's final days, and GQ's got an excerpt. The whole thing is worth a read, but here's one of my favorite parts: The president assesses his potential successors. READ MORE

Will this be our outrage for the day? Quite possibly! God forbid the Secretary of State cast aspersions on the cleanest, fairest, least manipulated election this country has ever seen. On foreign soil, no less! Tina Brown was right: Bitch needs to hit the gym.

Bill Clinton and the two journalists he rescued from North Korea have returned safely to the United States (adorable photo here). "I am very happy that after this long ordeal, Laura Ling and Euna Lee are now home and reunited with their loved ones," said the former President in a three-line statement that shows how much the world has changed since he held office; ten years ago it would have been a small novel. In any event, as news emerges that the North Koreans specifically requested a visit from the former President as part of the release deal, his wife, who happens to be Secretary of State, told Andrea Mitchell that the whole "private humanitarian mission" may offer a new opportunity for dialogue with North Korea. Mitchell actually did ask Clinton if we could send Bill to Iran to rescue the Americans captured there yesterday, because, I guess, let's just send him everywhere now. Anyway, the Secretary had some helpful advice: Stay away from hostile countries. Because Bill's got a pretty busy schedule, and he can't spend all his time negotiating for your hostage ass.

Mark Penn, chief pollster for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, tells ABC that had John Edwards chosen not to run because of the whole affair-and-babymaking thing, "it would have been a very different race," because Edwards voters were "focused on demographics" and Hillary would have been their other white meat. "We will never know for sure," says Penn, for whose sterling services Clinton still owes $2.3 million, "but it will be the woulda, coulda, shoulda of this race." Or, you know, one of them.