• Dissent in the ranks: Some Democrats on Capitol Hill are whining about Barack Obama's hope-mobile, saying the senator's campaign is arrogant, uncooperative, and inattentive to the goal of achieving a broad party victory in November. One senior Senate Democratic aide says "They think they know what's right and everyone else is wrong on everything...They are kind of insufferable at this point."

• Demon wearing Prada spawn: Be scared, very scared. Jealous of all the attention Nicole Richie and baby are getting, Paris Hilton is said to be trying to get pregnant with Benji Madden.

• Record breaker: Vanity Fair's Miley Cyrus photos elicited 915, mostly pissy, letters—far more than any previous story for the magazine.

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• Run off: Citing family concerns, former Minnesota governor Jesse "the Body" Ventura announced that he won't be running for Senate, as least "not at this moment." Too bad, we were so looking forward to the spectacle of him versus Al Franken. Really, we were.

• Hot air: Wedding planners, balloon artists, pre-teen girls, and other lovers of floating spheres are outraged by a bill before the California state senate calling for a ban on helium-filled foil balloons, which caused more than 800 power outages in the state last year. "To them, we're just the balloon people. We've got the big noses and the floppy shoes," says one balloon artist, "we're the Rodney Dangerfield of the professional-events services."

• Rove-r: Appearing on a panel with Howard Wolfson, John Moody, and Karl Rove, Fox Newser Chris Wallace snapped. Just as things were wrapping up, Wallace launched into a tirade about an unfair bias against Karl Rove, saying Rove's not testifying before Congress shouldn't have any impact on his ability to be a fair and balanced Fox commentator.

• Phoning it in: Despite the activation issues, Apple reports that it sold one million new iPhones last weekend, meeting the company's expectations.

• Character assassination: Grey's Anatomy producers are apparently so over Katherine Heigl and her complaints of not having meaty, Emmy-worthy material, that they're thinking of killing her character off. Playing dead and keeping her mouth shut—now that would be an acting challenge for Heigl.