* The all too brief time we'll get to spend with Shelly "DraculaCunt" Gibs.

* Turkeys that attack the crotch that feeds them.

* Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and the fact that she couldn't turn her brain "up to 11," on Celebrity Jeopardy.

* The trademark chaos that follows the Bush family, young and old and older, everywhere they go.

* The lessons we learned from paperless reporter Karen Feld, even though she assigns a lot of homework.

* Newly paperless Jim VandeHei and John Harris, whose new multi-platform political reporting venture will surely BLOW OUR MINDS.

* That the State Department's Protocol Office has a sense of humor after all.

* Lou Dobbs, who's going to save us from the Mexicans, just as soon as he finds his toupee.

* Small town reporters who aren't afraid to tell it like it is.

* Finally, our undying gratitude goes to Late Night Shots, without whom we might still be wasting time with "hope" for the future of America.