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• Safety check: The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking a $10.2 million civil penalty against Southwest Airlines for flying busloads of passengers on "unsafe" flights with planes in violation of mandatory safety checks. Congressman James Oberstar calls it "one of the worst safety violations" he has ever seen.

• Monster mash: As campaigning for the democratic presidential nomination grows ever more sweet and positive, Samantha Power, a top adviser to Barack Obama, calls Hillary Clinton "a monster."

• Pop goes the weasel: Copping a plea in an Orlando federal courtroom, former boy band mogul Lou Pearlman coldly owns up to hundreds of millions in fraud that underscored his late '90s pop music success with Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. He's facing a 25 years in prison at a May sentencing.

WAIT, THERE'S MORE: Cecilia Sarkozy's revenge wedding, Ikea's cultural imperialism, and Jerry Seinfeld's insect-free comeback!

• Modern love: In the wake of the whirlwind Bruni romance, Cecilia Sarkozy, ex-wife of French pres Nicolas Sarkozy, moves up the date of her "revenge wedding" to her New York lover, Richard Attias. Save the date! March 22! You're not invited.

• Democracy in action: Democrats still not sure how to handle the delegate debacle in Florida and Michigan and whether it should be classified as a train wreck or a cluster fuck.

• Assembling the evidence: Danish academics accuse Ikea of cultural imperialism, saying they've discovered that the Swedish furniture chain names its nicer stuff after Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian towns and the cheap shit, like doormats and runners, after Danish places. Klaus Kjoller, of the University of Copenhagen, says this "symbolically portrays Denmark as the doormat of Sweden, a country with a larger economy and population." And, here we thought all stuff from Ikea was equally crappy.

• Coming out of the dark: Jerry Seinfeld is said to be working on a new Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque TV series that will premiere on NBC in June. Please let it have nothing to do with bees.

• No Go-ogle: After images of a Texas military base surfaced on the sight, the U.S. defense department has banned Google Maps from making detailed studies of military sites, saying they pose a "potential threat." Isn't it nice to know you're not the only one feeling like Google has too much access?

• Recycling: A Houston, Texas house clad with 50,000 flattened beer cans will open to the public this weekend after undergoing a massive restoration project. The restoration took seven years and cost $400,000.