Along with blue jeans and Bruce Springsteen, a new American commodity is being controversially exported to the Motherland. South Park, which sparked controversy and loud public cries for its removal from American television in 1997, is finally making its way over to Russia, where some fundamentalist religious groups are hating it. Along with Family Guy, Brendon Small's Metalocalypse, and 12 other raunchy cartoons, public prosecutors are seeking to ban what America long-ago gave up trying to regulate. Wonder why?

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• Roman Polanski may be hiding out in France, but not on the big screen. [MW]

• Responding to Rush Limbaugh's claims that he overacted his Parkinson's disease in political ads, Michael J. Fox claims he was overmedicated when he taped them. A more adult response would've been overacted his first into Limbaugh's chin. [AP]

• Nicole Richie enters treatment for inability to gain weight. Coke addiction? Anorexia? Rachel Zoe? We may never know the cause. [People]

• While CNN and NPR refuses ads for Death of a President, NBC and The CW just say no to running ads for the Dixie Chicks' documentary Shut Up & Sing. [Drudge Report]

• Those changes at the Times to help distinguish between hard news editorial and commentary? Uh, yeah, not working. [Hot Type, second item]

• Thankfully, South Park gets to mocking Steve Irwin before our own MollyGood almost had to. [Daily Mail]

• Shows with ratings low enough to warrant cancelation just a few years ago are now having their script orders upped. [MediaWeek]

• Unlike Matthew McConaughey, Dominic Monaghan doesn't appreciate it when photogs swarm at the beach. [TMZ]

Because we don't think they really work hard enough (school, jobs, internships … come on) we asked our interns Zack and Calista to waste some time browsing the geared-for-college-student sites Shock U and Office Pirates.

And while normally, we would have asked for a comparative essay, we then realized we would have to edit it. And we're trying to do as little work as possible. Hello that's why we have interns in the first place.

Read on after the jump to see what the hip, with it, barely 20-something kids are up to these days. If you need us we'll be at American Apparel trying to figure out how to smuggle a couple guns and find some hos to pimp. Ok, fine, we'll be shopping for leggings.

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• South Park takes on Comedy Central. Because they can. [AP]

• That damn cat Molly is still stuck in a wall in the village, and the media are eating it up. [NYT]

• At the New York Int'l Auto Show, there are just as many hot lasses, but now they're wearing suits. [NYDN]

• Where's the best place in town to hail a cab? One blogger wants to know. [Felix Salmon, via Curbed]

• The Easter holiday means just one thing: Easter fashion. [Queerty]

Isaac Hayes, who played the voice of the famous South Park character Chef, has left town. Hayes decided that the show's satirical tone had turned into intolerance and bigotry, specifically talking about the show's take on religion.

"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

Yet according to Matt Stone, a co-creator of South Park, Hayes is specifically upset regarding an episode that poked fun of Scientology.

"This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology… He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."

That hilarious episode "Trapped in the Closet" came out last November, and depicted Tom Cruise and John Travolta taking Stan as their saviro, while Cruise traps himself in a closet. While it pushed us of the couch into a hysterical ball on the floor, it pushed avid Scientologist Hayes over the edge.

Hayes had little problem making fun of Christians, Jews, Muslims, or Hindus, but when it came to Scientology, he is so afraid that Cruise will impregnate him and lock him in the basement, that he can longer go on.

Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park' [Erin Carlson, AP News]