What would Freud say, Condi?

With Condoleeza Rice ascending to the post of Secretary of State, the 'Union' was reminded of this amusing and intriguing item from New York Magazine's "Intelligencer" column in April 2004, alleging that Condi accidentally referred to W as her husband:

Political Conversation: Condi’s Slip

A pressing issue of dinner-party etiquette is vexing Washington, according to a story now making the D.C. rounds: How should you react when your guest, in this case national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, makes a poignant faux pas? At a recent dinner party hosted by New York Times D.C. bureau chief Philip Taubman and his wife, Times reporter Felicity Barringer, and attended by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Maureen Dowd, Steven Weisman, and Elisabeth Bumiller, Rice was reportedly overheard saying, "As I was telling my husb--" and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, "As I was telling President Bush." Jaws dropped, but a guest says the slip by the unmarried politician, who spends weekends with the president and his wife, seemed more psychologically telling than incriminating. Nobody thinks Bush and Rice are actually an item. A National Security Council spokesman laughed and said, "No comment."

It's actually oddly believable that something could be going on between the two. What a boffo ending that would be for the Bush administration -- making the Monica brouhaha look tame by comparison.

Meanwhile, is anyone else disturbed by the uncanny resemblance of Elastigirl to Laura Bush in The Incredibles?

And then there's these photos. Yuck.