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"Clusterf@#k to the White House": Maria Shriver and some of the potential first ladies got together and basked in each other's powerful-by-association womanliness. Fact: Within five minutes of meeting each other, their views on universal healthcare synchronized... That was bad, I'm sorry. I tried. Another fact: Jon Stewart's Shriver impression sounds more like Arnold Schwarzenegger than his Arnold impression. It was while watching this segment when I realized who Henry Waxman looks like. That tiny little man at the end of The Triplets of Belleville. You know, the mousy mechanic/operator fellow? Yeah? No? Okay. Look it up.

Youth Correspondent Demetri Martin, king of hipsters and leader of the shaggy-haired, dropped by to the pressure the high schoolers about the upcoming SATs. I felt a strange pang of social awkwardness when I realized that most of my friends from high school probably would have subscribed to that Princeton Review podcast had it been available to them. Mmm. Social pariahs.

The night's guest was Valerie Plame Wilson, former super-spy and author of Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. The interview was pretty interesting because, well, it's Valerie Plame Wilson. Judging by how she was talking about the redaction of certain parts of her book, I kept expecting the interview to keep jumping awkwardly and cutting at strange points. But it didn't. Or the CIA just did a really awesome job of making the editing look seamless. I choose to believe the latter.

Jon/Stephen: Stephen Colbert brings out the doggies. And by "doggies", I mean his hands. Come on, guys, a writers' strike is looming. Don't you want to squeeze in good material in every little moment? Moment of Zen: Ms. Virginia Foxx things Rice would make a great president. Hey, you know what, Ms. Foxx? Insert furious fist shaking here.