• Interpretation or imitation?: The day after anti-Clintonites bashed Hillary for faking a Southern drawl, the rest of the video surfaces (above, but slimed with Fox News rhetoric), revealing that she was doing justice to a colloquial passage, not just engaging in political pandering.

• Class war: Two San Francisco men are charged with felony assault after attacking members of Yale's Bakers Dozen a cappella group on New Year's Eve.

• "Fag" hag fires back: Ann Coulter makes no apologies and claims the word "faggot" has nothing to do with gays. "It's a schoolyard taunt meaning 'wuss,' and unless you're telling me that John Edwards is gay, it was not applied to a gay person," Coulter said.

• Stop snitchin': Wal-Mart has fired an unnamed IT technician for taping conversations and recording text messages between the company's PR staffers and New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro.