[Gossip Girl's Jessica Szohr and friends at the tents yesterday; image via Splash]

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The thorny issue of exactly how much to appease the conspiracy-theorist nutbags on the right when you're running for office has come to a head in race to be Texas governor. Birthers? Fine. 9/11 Truthers? Too much.

A survey in London, for the anniversary of a charity, asked whether the victims should take any of the blame in some circumstances. Almost three quarters of women (71 per cent) and half of men (57 per cent) agreed. [BBC]

Unless it's a dance craze called "the boozy ostrich"? Madonna celebrates Carnival with Jesus Luz. Britney celebrates V-Day with saturated fats. Simon Monjack dismantles his Brittany Murphy charity. Heidi Montag finally moves her face. Monday's gossip roundup is hungover.

American supremacy in lavishly, opulently, spending more than you earn has been challenged. Four European countries have a more ridiculous ratio between household debt and disposable income. Please, people, go out and buy toaster ovens and Humvees.

Remember Joe the Plumber? The everyman plucked from obscurity by John McCain and Sarah Palin during the 2008 election? Well, he ranted about how hates them both now, and thinks Obama is "one of the more honest politicians."

The New York Times is blowing the whistle on a business reporter who "appears to have improperly appropriated wording and passages published by other news organizations." They identify two plagiarized WSJ articles and allude to "other cases of extensive overlap."

Tonight, one of the Olympics' few black figure skaters will perform Out of Africa with his white partner. And then there are the censored Russian ice dancers whose "Aboriginal dance" used to include brown skin suits, fake eucalyptus, and warpaint.

Valentine's Day wins its titular weekend. The Olympics are pure gold for NBC. Toy Story 3 will have Legos. Kathryn Bigelow heads to HBO. 24 stops production. Happy Chinese New Year, from all your friends at the Trade Roundup!

Biden's motorcade was in yet another accident late Sunday, this time in Vancouver. Skating champ Peggy Fleming and bobsled star Vonetta Flowers sustained "minor injuries." From now on, let's just roll him around in a wad of bubble wrap. [NYT]

The thing about Tavi Gevinson is: She's only 13 but she is already a famous and controversial fashion blogger. Last night, Tavi swooped into a Fashion Week party and we were able to talk to her for 1.5 minutes.

Family Guy is known for "going there" with controversial issues, but tonight's episode—in which a character with Down's syndrome said her mother is "the former governor of Alaska"—WENT THERE, and Sarah Palin will not be happy.

Google Buzz: Well, that didn't go so well! After the Internet erupted into a storm of "Fuck You Google" over privacy concerns, Google has scaled back some of the features that scared people the most. Will it be enough?

NBC News President Steve Capus has banned footage of Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili's fatal crash.

Comedian Rick Pulido talks about how clueless he is as to what to get for his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. We hear ya, brother.

In retrospect, Sarah Silverman—queen of the rape joke—might not have been the best pick to speak to the nerds at TED. But now that it's done, Steve Case and Chris Anderson should back down before things get ugly.

Today, the New York Times' Clark Hoyt used his Public Editor column to address the recent shitshow and rumors surrounding the Times' forthcoming story on New York governor David Patterson. And Bill Keller interestingly called us out in it.

Picking up any kind of "waning sign" for random acts of violence is—unless you're living in dystopian futures of mind-readers—nearly impossible. This reality only serves up Amy Bishop's past as even more of a bitter pill to digest.

It's Valentine's Day, but what does that mean for the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations? And even more importantly: Gawker Weddings Expert Phyllis Nefler? Nothing but business as usual: a massive hangover, investigative reporting on Facebook, and a Gizmodo writer's wedding.