1. You Can't Smoke 'em If You Don't Join 'em: The East Side Barkeeps vs. Community Board 3 Battle Royale takes an interesting turn as the Villager reports local bar proliferator, David McWater, is running for council chair on the "Disciplinarian" ticket. [via ebway]
2. Pugilist Prize: New Yorker Editor David Remnick vs. Stanford Professor David M. Kennedy in a heated debate on whether the public is too stupid for serious journalism. Remnick says yes while Kennedy bitch-slaps him with a Thomas Jefferson roundhouse. Jeff Jarvis scores the fight: Decision to Kennedy. [BuzzMachine]
3. Who's Dishin' Who?: Elisa Lipsky-Karasz vs. Kristina Stewart in the trash-talking contest of Harper Bazaar Editor Glenda Bailey. This isn't really a fight as much as it is a tale of two sides which was hypothesized here earlier. Elisa and Kristina swear it's not them and reiterate the fact a dozen or more others have left too since the beginning of the year. God knows (or maybe doesn't care) what the actual truth is but let's get 'em all in a police line-up and see how they respond under the *hot* lights.