Smart List: What we’ll still be talking about in 2010

By Denise Martin, Los Angeles Times staff

Will we miss Paula Abdul‘s parade of verbal nonsense -- “I want to squish you! Squish your head off and dangle you from my rearview mirror,” she told runner-up David Archuleta in 2008 -- after Ellen DeGeneres makes her debut? (Jan. 12)   (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)