News is kind of slow of late, so we've been actually featuring a lot of clips from late-night TV. It's a good time for it, actually. With Conan taking over "The Tonight Show," Late Night Wars 2.0 have sparked up, and after a huge debut last Monday for Conan, Dave surpassed him in the ratings in 7 business days, capturing his first late night win in 8 months on Tuesday when Julia Roberts showed up (it was a great interview, by the by).

Anyway, the latest kerfuffle involves Sarah goddamn Palin, for God's sake. And it's actually created a much bigger controversy than I ever could've imagined. When I saw Dave apologizing for some jokes he made last night, I thought at first he was being facetious. Why apologize for a few jokes that aren't even half as bad as you might hear on "The Daily Show"? But apparently, in spheres of the pop-culture universe that I don't visit very often, Letterman is actually taking a lot of heat. Completely uncalled for, but the humorless right has jumped up on its righteousness horse.

Clearly, much of the controversy has been manufactured, probably in a vain attempt to get Sarah Palin some more coverage. But it's gotten so out of hand that Letterman -- 62-fucking-year-old David Letterman, who has been running a talk show for 30 years -- is suddenly trending over on Twitter. Check out some of these comments, and keep in mind that, anyone with half a left brain knew that the fairly benign jokes that Dave made were in regard to the older Palin daughter, Bristol -- the 18-year-old girl who was knocked up -- and not the 14-year-old that Sarah Palin made these jokes out to be about: