The latest speculation making the rounds about Lou Dobbs's political future is that the former CNN anchor won't run for president in 2012, but will instead aim for a Senate seat. The New Jersey resident is considering a challenge to Democratic senator Robert Menendez in 2012 as "an intermediary step" to the White House, a surprisingly honest spokesman told the Times. But apparently Dobbs is aware that targeting the nation's only Hispanic senator might not reflect well on someone already burdened with a reputation for hostility toward Hispanic illegal immigrants. Maybe that's why Dobbs has already begun to reverse his outspoken opposition to what he used to call "amnesty," a path to legalization for illegal immigrants. The Wall Street Journal reports that in an overlooked interview with Telemundo last Friday, Dobbs "twice mentioned a possible legalization plan for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., saying at one point that 'we need the ability to legalize illegal immigrants under certain conditions.'" Looks like he's getting the hang of the politician thing already.

Lou Dobbs Weighs Senate Run, as a Steppingstone [NYT]
Dobbs Reaches Out to Latinos, With Politics in Mind [WSJ]

Shauna Sand says she had an affair with Chace Crawford when he was 18, after meeting him "at a college party." "He was so incredibly beautiful — I immediately fell in love with him!" the 1996 Playmate told Star. "I even gave him a key to my apartment." Rihanna is getting $500k to perform on New Year's Eve in Abu Dhabi. Rosie O'Donnell is not enjoying the single life. Cynthia Rodriguez's new boyfriend is a real-estate investor named Laszlo Fazekas. Courtney Love took her band to Scores. "She was saying she used to be a stripper and appreciated what the girls do," a source tells "Page Six." Danny Meyer took his family to one of his own restaurants the other night.

Maybe you've noticed that President Obama has a habit of referring to things he does as "unprecedented." With less than a year as president under his belt, he's used "the word at least 129 times in everything from major addresses to small speeches, statements, memorandums and proclamations." Compare that to George W. Bush, who used it only 262 times over eight years. (Then again, it is a five-syllable word, so.) But an in-depth investigation by Politico has revealed that, sometimes, the things Obama refers to as "unprecedented" are actually quite precedented.

That's the latest "hot rumor" making the the rounds in Washington, according to U.S. News' Paul Bedard. Of course, the "hotness" of this rumor has to be taken with an enormous grain of salt — maybe the biggest grain of salt you've ever seen, the kind that could be a roadside attraction in northern Pennsylvania — as Hillary is, at any given time, rumored to be eyeing some job other than the one she currently holds. The logic behind the latest scuttlebutt is that Biden would be "too old" to run for president in 2012 (he'd be 70 by the time he took office; Hillary would be 65), and, as we've noted, Hillary's denials about wanting to run for president again are less than airtight. Plus, she'd likely be a bigger boost to President Obama than Joe Biden, since she's now incredibly popular — and Lord knows he might need a boost. Not to mention, the transition should be easy, since Hillary has already begun to embrace Biden's ceremonial role as the master of gaffes.

Could Hillary Clinton Replace Biden as Obama's VP? [Washington Whispers/U.S. News]

“I try not to let any of that stuff penetrate my sphere of consciousness,” the musician and heir to the Seagram's fortune, who lives in Bed-Stuy because he chooses to and not because he has to, told the Observer, whilst "sitting on the edge of a wicker couch in the dim light of the Bowery Hotel Bar’s back patio with a glass of Malbec and a Winston." What stuff was he talking about? We don't know. Most stuff, probably. That's the best part about being rich, that you get to think about what you want to think about, and not have "stuff" gunking up your brain all the time, like will I get fired and if so will I have to live in New Jersey and/or and did I pay my cell-phone bill and can I keep not knowing who Adam Lambert is or is it important that I know? Meanwhile, Bronfman's fiancée, the entirely hot and likable Grammy-nominated singer Maya Arulpragasam, a.k.a. M.I.A., "was across town doing a photo shoot for Vogue."

The Bed-Stuy Bronfman [NYO]