• As the battle between the 'Giuliani Girl' and the 'Obama Girl' heats up, Team Barack "keeps to their tradition of balancing booty with wit, using a pop-up Al Gore to excellent effect, along with the somewhat hapless character of "Kucinich Girl," which is a nice nod to lower-tier candidates (though one shudders to think of what "Gravel Girl" might look like)."

• Larry Flynt to Tucker Carlson: "I'm a slimeball, and you can't dance."

• According to the results of a new Harvard study, "young people do not make an appointment with news every day the way older adults do." As a result, teens also tend not to talk like out-of-touch septuagenarians.

• WaPo brings "local news" to excruciatingly boring macroscopic level.

• Brian Williams writes surprisingly beautiful testimonial to Lady Bird Johnson on his blog.

• In order to successfully fulfill her responsibilities as CBS' official Evening News anchorwoman, Katie Couric needs to embrace her impossibly cheerful "Chatty Cathy" morning persona, opines some crazy lady at HuffPo.