* Trent 's Lookin' to Return and He's Takin' Names and Kickin' Butts. Look Who's Talking About Making a Comeback in the Senate Senator Trent Lott, ousted as majority leader in 2002, is jabbing at Republican leaders and ruffling feathers as he ponders his future. [NYT > Washington] [SHERYL GAY STOLBERG ]

*Guess It's Time to Finally Buy That Lead Suit. S.D. uranium mines prepared for cleanup LUDLOW — For Randy Feist, who lost a kidney to cancer, the estimated $22 million cleanup of Cold War-era uranium strip mines can't happen soon enough. [Argus Leader - News]

* Kazakhstan , Don't Mess Around with Borat! Ali G to lawyer up? Sacha Baron Cohen's fictitious Kazakh TV reporter Borat is still drawing heat from Kazakh authorities.

*And Don't Forget the Angry Men, Too! Angry women are watching Wal-Mart Though we're already seeing a few Santa Claus displays going up, Americans usually wait until the after Thanksgiving to indulge in the... [ Topeka Capital Journal]

*Like I Said, If You're Not on RSS, You Don't Exist. RSS users visit more than twice as many news sites as non-users From Emergence Marketing : "According to a recent Nielsen report : "RSS users are significantly more engaged in online news than non-users, visiting an average of 10.6 news sites compared with 3.4 news sites for non-users... [Susan]

*You Can't Beat It with a Stick! Website Offers Searchable Database of Cliches The Cliché Finder offers a searchable database of over 3,300 clichés. Enter cat into the search box and you will get results like "cat got your tongue?," "cat's pajamas" and "curiosity killed the cat." [The Internet Writing Journal]

*By Then, Maybe the Argus Leader Will Have a Blog That Is Updated Daily. Ten years after its arrival, the Internet is still changing. How will it work 10 years from now? A decade after the World Wide Web first became popular, it's hard to imagine life without it. Now imagine this: Ten years hence, the Web as we know it will have largely vanished. [U.S. News & World Report]

*I Guess Not Everyone in Houston Found Thanksgiving to Their Liking. Thanksgiving weekend marred by 11 homicides An altercation in east Houston Saturday that left one man dead became at least the 11th homicide over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. [HoustonChronicle.com -- Chronicle]

*If Only Nixon Could Go to China , Where Could Only George W. Bush Go? Middle East Surprises Call it history's revenge or the Nixon-goes-to-China syndrome run amok: Events in the Middle East now force political leaders to eat vows never to do certain things and then pronounce the dish tasty. [washingtonpost.com - Op-Ed Columns] [Jim Hoagland]

*The Good, The Bad, and the WWW The wild, wild Web Editorial by Mortimer B. Zuckerman [US News]