Unfortunately for, uh, all citizens of Earth, the Girls reality show is apparently underway: ABC has picked it up and already chosen a star, a 25-year-old publicist named Hailey Glassman whose achievements include, hand to God, dating Jon Gosselin and being on an episode of My Life is A Lifetime Movie. She's also…

Eliot Spitzer's supposed to be a controversial and "polarizing" figure. So why does his new CNN show look so boring?

Around the time the married governor of a populous northeastern state resigned following revelations about high-priced call girls, a man I was having dinner with said that any man who claimed he'd never been to a prostitute was lying.

Yesterday, we learned that voters were polled on whether Barbara Boxer or Carly Fiorina has better hair. Even without the 2008 election's bombast (Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin), the past year has been rather rocky for women in politics. Some lowlights:

Says Lloyd Grove on The Daily Beast: "Now, four weeks into his multimedia ordeal, Gore hasn't managed to formulate an effective PR strategy to counter the toxic fallout polluting his once-gleaming image."

• Demi Moore and Salma Hayek were spotted having dinner and talking about working together, possibly on a comedy.

Rumor has it that Eliot Spitzer is negotiating to take over the timeslot vacated by Campbell Brown for a Crossfire-style opinion show. By the laws of cable news symmetry, this means he'd get a conservative co-host — possibly a lady.

By this morning, scrutiny into Elena Kagan's private life — so suspiciously man-free at age 50 — has reached absurdist heights, with the White House trotting out friends to talk about which boys Kagan might have crushed on in college.

On her husband Eliot Spitzer's infidelities. [Politics Daily, via Washington Post]

The best part is how she can't even hide her revulsion. [Vintage_Ads]