Bush

-

Spokesman Snow suggests Bush Senior’s failure to take Baghdad led to 9/11. Hey, W, are you blaming Dad?

Karr

-

Guilty sicko or innocent weirdo? Either way, why is the media obsessing over this pathetic man?

Cruise

-

Couch man bounced from Paramount lot. Maybe should’ve given Sumner Redstone first rights to Suri pics.

Stem Cells

=

New way to produce them. No panacea–except for anti-stem pols looking for a fig leaf.

‘Survivor’

-

In desperate bid to save ratings, goes with black, white, Asian, Hispanic teams. Next year: Arabs vs. Jews?

Pluto

=

Everyone’s favorite planet booted out of solar system by no-fun experts. “Gone” but not forgotten.

Read the daily edition of Conventional Wisdom Watch at xtra.Newsweek.com on MSNBC.