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• Su Lin? Straight up OWNED. Butterstick? Currently keeping scientists busy recalibrating all known measures of cuteness. MORE »

After posting about the young Michael Scanlon’s bizarre hormonal explorations, we were sent a note from another of his contemporaries who experienced his high school reign of terror. Wishing to remain anonymous out of concern for a future of peaceful area shopping, our tipster assures us: “I can completely vouch for this. I was one of the black-clad girls he tormented at WJ (I was 5′ 6″ in high school, though, so he didn’t mess with me much — he mostly went after the shorter girls).” MORE »

We heard this little delightful story from a Wonkette operative this morning: MORE »

• Michael Scanlon, partner to Jack Abramoff, pleads guilty to conspiring to bribe a lawmaker and other officials as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. [WP, NYT, WSJ, LAT]
• Cheney at the AEI: “Any suggestion that prewar information was distorted, hyped, fabricated by the leader of the nation is utterly false.” William Kristol: “His numbers have dropped and he is probably not the best messenger to independents and swing voters, but in terms of managing an argument, he is good at it and his style lends itself to it.” [WP, NYT, LAT, WT, USAT]
• Cheney managed to celebrate “debate and criticism while declaring that a key element of that debate — whether the administration exaggerated prewar intelligence about Iraq — is off-limits.” [WP]
• Mongolia thrills Bush: “I’m here on an important international mission. Secretary Rumsfeld asked me to check on his horse.” [NYT, WSJ, , USAT]

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