Guess what Graydon Carter's December Vanity Fair editor's letter is about! George Bush, Tony Blair, war criminals, waterboarding, torture, the American moral compass, AND YOU ARE ALL GUILTY OF ALLOWING GEORGE BUSH TO MUTILATE PEOPLE. YOU SHOULD FEEL THE SHAME. So maybe irony did die on 9/11—and never did rise from the grave on the third day to eat $55 mac and cheese. [VF]

According to a story published in Variety last night and then removed from their website (ah! now it is back!), 'Vanity Fair' will move its annual Oscar party from the defunct Mortons (that site will become the L.A. outpost of heinous Brit-drunkening shack Soho House). This fits nicely into our slightly-shabby working theory that agents are the new movie stars.

Tonight the James Beard house is hosting a dinner at the Waverly Inn with ticket prices around $200. Basically this is for those rich in cash but poor in cachet who can't normally get a table in the somehow still exclusive diner. Part of the reward, other than the candy cane beets and arugula, was the chance to rub shoulders with the leonine eminence gris Graydon Carter, who is not only an owner but was also listed as one of the event's hosts. Sadly for those gourmand suckers, Mr. Carter shan't be attending. Something something about Father's Day and children, according to the PR firm.