• No deal: Yahoo has ended all talks with Microsoft.
•Didn't Stanley Crouch say something like this?: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi worries that because Barack Obama "is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites." Yeah, listen up there, Muammar: the one thing Obama isn't is insecure.
• Cheney of fools: Vice President Dick Cheney says that the Dems are on a "destructive path" in terms of trade, and warns them to change their ways or he will shoot them in the face.
• Speaking of faces: It's always fun when a congressman contradicts himself and then assaults a cameraman.
• International House of Pancakes: Doorman wins lottery, sets sights on Park Avenue apartment and chicks. "I want a good Italian woman—or Swedish or Irish or Chinese. I'm always looking. It's a hobby of mine." Yeah, that and gambling.
• Tattooin' tot: A five year-old kid in London is doing tattoos. First on her brave dad, now others. Has the Etch-a-Sketch gone out of style?