Pamela Anderson, waltzes home and Train whizzes by in Week 7's........

On the week 7 elimination episode of Dancing With the Stars, Pamela Anderson, the magically babelicious pop culture icon who reduced Tom Bergeron to a 12-year-old boy, said farewell to sequins, fringe, and the daily execution of splits. Her poise, ability to assume characters, and sweet nature will be missed. Honestly, it seemed like she knew she'd be gone. She was calm and cracking jokes, as if she'd already had a decent cry before the liiiiiive taping. Due to a vague-sounding injury, Pam got to close out her DWTS experience in a lovely pastel princess gown and perfect makeup instead of a black pleather raincoat and streaks of sweat. Hey, you gotta keep it classy, even on reality TV.

Your votes had set the stage for a shocking elimination! I wouldn't call Pam's oust that shocking, but it did provide the graphics department with a great excuse to splatter sliver lightning bolts all over the contestants' headshots. I have to say, when Tom said ''One of these couples will be in the bottom two'' and the audience gasped, I thought it would be Nicole and Derek. Alas, the ''fast, furious, and fabulous'' Erin and ''her Russian'' could not survive the unflattering bloodbath (of light) of the dreaded bottom two.

My favorite part of Tuesday's show was Niecy's previously taped outburst backstage. ''Why do people keep asking me that? Did I think .............

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The Meaning of Faisal 'Rorschach' Shahzad ,Faisal Shahzad, Times Square car bomb attemp

The Meaning of Faisal 'Rorschach' Shahzad

It is fascinating to me how both liberals and conservatives are using the story of Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber (as well as the story of Nidal Malik Hassan, the Ft. Hood shooter, among others), as a kind of springboard to launch into all sorts of extraneous and sometimes comical disquisitions about the Larger Meaning of his (thankfully incompetent) act. On the left, the news that Shahzad's Connecticut home was in foreclosure has led at least a couple of commentators to argue that the country's financial crisis, and not, say, jihadist ideology, is at the root of Shahzad's desire to commit murder in Times Square. On the right, Shahzad's alleged act has become proof (not that certain commentators needed proof) that no Muslim in America can be trusted.

The weirdest commentary I've seen on the left so far has come from Ezra Klein, who wrote that Shahzad's story is "a reminder that foreclosures generate an enormous amount of misery and anxiety and depression that can tip people into all sorts of dangerous behaviors that don't make headlines but do ruin lives. And for all that we've done to save the financial sector, we've not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners."

I agree, of course, that we have not done nearly enough to help struggling homeowners. But I would also point out that of the millions of Americans in foreclosure,

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