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  • Cartoon Network GM Jim Samples is resigning in the wake of the Boston Aqua Teen Hunger Force terrorist scare. Maybe they'll hire the guy with the dreads to take over. Samples had been with the company for 13 years. [CNN]

  • It's like Godzilla vs. Mothra, only bigger! On Sunday, CNN's "Reliable Sources" lends host Howie Kurtz to NBC's "Meet The Press" while elsewhere on the dial he wonders if the media gave too much coverage to the death of Anna Nicole Smith, whist giving coverage to the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Everybody wins! [MTP on MSNBC]

  • So those Edwards bloggers aren't getting fired after all. One of them, Melissa McEwan, who referred to 'Christofascists' on her personal blog, claims having voted for Kerry proves she isn't anti-Catholic. If I promise to vote for Hillary, can I say nasty things about women for the next couple of years? [NYT]

  • Pentagon Inspector General dings Douglas Feith for including "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties in his briefings. But Feith would like everyone to know that the Inspector General concluded he did nothing illegal. What a mensch! [Washington Post]

  • How He Arrived at That Acquired Taste?/A Turnaround Born of Pain, Now Yielding Opportunity: Over at the Daily Intelligencer, the incomparable Lizzie Skurnick once again susses out the poetry in NYT headlines, just in time for Valentine's Day. Found poetry is fun! [NYMag]

  • Police say no evidence Anna Nicole Smith was murdered. [On Fox News right now]

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