There weren't any great bombshells in today's Oprah's interview with Sarah Palin.

Indeed both seemed to be trying to be particularly careful, and in Palin's case, guarded; Oprah, perhaps, because she had supported Palin's opponent and Palin, perhaps, because she didn't want to give too much away and undermine her book sales.

It was a very mannerly and cordial interview, which makes for not-great TV, but it wasn't undignified either and that's OK too.

Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" looks to be a big hit and in it she's talking about everything: Katie Couric (reports say Palin only did the interview because she was told Couric was insecure), the issues with the McCain campaign and almost son-in-law Levi Johnston.

But you need not wait to read the book. On Monday, her taped interview with Oprah Winfrey airs.

Here's a preview:

Tomorrow will be a year to the day that Barack Obama was elected president of these United States.

With all that has happened since then, it's getting harder to remember the headiness of that time -- whether Democratic or Republican or Independent, you can't dispute the historic nature of the 2008 election.

HBO's "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama" (9 tonight) reminds us not just of election day, but President Obama's journey to his victory. And even if the memories and the emotions linger, you'll still learn something.

First we hear that Levi Johnston -- Sarah Palin's daughter baby daddy -- is taking it all off for Playgirl.

Now we hear the next character to go nekked will be Marge Simpson.

It seems the mother of three, who we'll admit keeps herself in pretty good shape, will be featured in a three-page pictorial, complete with an interview for the November issue. (There will still be a 3D Playmate too.)

Not sure how this will go over with feminist Lisa or what the guys at school will say to Bart, but we're pretty sure Homer will be happy.

And we're happy Homer is not going to take it off for Playgirl. Or, far worse, Mr. Burns. Ewww!

Comedian Kathy Griffin filled in for Larry King last night on CNN's "Larry King Live," and one of the people she picked to interview was Bristol Palin's ex, Levi Johnston. Johnston, coincidentally, had been Griffin's date the night before at the Teen Choice Awards.

Griffin's shtick throughout most of the interview revolved around her "serious relationship" with Johnston, who is 19 years old. When she joked about waking up in his arms and staring into his "chocolate eyes," and asked him questions about their future life together in Wasilla, Johnston gamely played along, usually with a grin and very short answers. But even in his good mood, Johnston did manage to get in a quick Palin dig later in the interview...

Here's the winning caption for the latest McClatchy caption-writing contest. To see weekly roundups of cartoons by company artists, go here.

Hmm. An interesting cartoon for this month's caption-writing contest from McClatchy. Take a look, then go here to enter. The contest ends Sunday.

Still no winner for the Joel Pett cartoon with the lemonade stand, but here's the winner from the contest before that:

Sarah Palin's resignation as governor of Alaska has given cartoonists
across the country yet another prolonged shot at her. The N&O has
run several cartoons about Palin this week. Bill O'Reilly asked one of
his guests on "The O'Reilly Factor" last night whether we've reached
the point yet where continuing to demean her goes too far. His guest (a
Rhodes scholar whose name escapes me) thought not. Here are a few more
cartoons from McClatchy artists and one from Signe Wilkinson, my
favorite of the bunch, given that it puts a few things in perspective.

A week ago, if you talked about late night talkshow host David Letterman being in the middle of a war, you'd likely have been referring to his new 11:35 opponent, Conan O'Brien.

But thanks to a few off-color jokes about the Palin family, Letterman is instead in the middle of his very own "lipstick on a pig" culture war (he currently seems to be winning his timeslot war against Conan, by the way).

In his monologue Monday night, Letterman talked about the Palin family visiting New York and made a joke about Sarah Palin's daughter getting "knocked up" by (allegedly) philandering Yankee second baseman,
Alex Rodriguez.

The Palin camp reacted strongly, accusing Letterman of advocating the raping of children and even hinted that . . .

Even the notoriously smarty pants "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" (and I say that with affection and admiration) makes a mistake that bedevils many of us. In a caption promoting Friday night's story about Sarah Palin's interview, the "Countdown" crew on MSNBC mixed up whose (possessive) and who's (contraction for "who is").

We have only one rule to remember: Possessive pronouns never use an apostrophe.