Sarah Palin: You either love her or you loathe her. And Glenn Beck most likely falls in the former category. Why else would he invite Palin to be the first guest on his new Fox News show? That’s right. This Monday, at 5 PM Eastern/Standard, Beck will host Palin, who will be live via satellite. Welcome to the future. We’re actually pretty impressed Palin picked up the invitation; she has, after all, had less than nice things to say about the press as of late. Hmm, perhaps she loves Beck, too?

But not everyone’s loving Palin … Mother Jones reported yesterday that on Monday, while Palin is being beamed in to Fox, the Inaugural committee will host a dinner for so-called "champions of bipartisanship." Joe Biden, Colin Powell and John McCain are among the honored. And Palin won’t be there to help celebrate. Could it be that the committee snubbed the Republican governor? Perhaps, but no one’s talking. Palin spokesman Bill McAllister insisted ignorance: "I don’t know if she was invited." The Inaugural committee, meanwhile, won’t say whether or not they sent an invitation. You know what that means …

We’re sure Palin will get over it. Not only does she have Beck, but she also has a new mission: suing the federal government over their enlistment of beluga whales as "endangered." According to Palin, she and her government have done enough to protect beluga in the Cook Inlet, "The state of Alaska has worked co-operatively with the federal government to protect and conserve the beluga whales. This listing decision didn’t take those efforts into account as required by law." Experts say the beluga could be extinct within a hundred years.

That Palin — always looking toward the future!