Thought you could sneak this past us, Times, by running it two and a half week's later and on a Saturday? Oh, no.

After a crippling childhood bout of Joel Stein Disease left her permanently retarded, we're happy to report that Michelle Malkin has finally made a little progress. Before long, she'll able to eat paste without assistance.

A tiny box on amNew York's second page today:

With free dailies, apparently, you get what you pay for.

Tsk, tsk: Someone hasn't been closely following their Monster Ballads.

From the front page of yesterday's Arts & Leisure:

We saw The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's hilarious new play about a high-powered Hollywood agent determined not to let her closeted client's coming-out process destroy his career, a few weeks ago at the Second Stage Theater, and we can assure you that Julie White, who plays the agent, gives a performance every bit as commanding and delightful as the Times says she does in its profile of her today.

We're so ashamed we missed this on Wednesday, especially because it was such a momentous event. Only 11 days into 2006, Alessandra Stanley clocked her first Times correction of the year:

In yesterday's review of South Beach, a new UPN series that debuted last night, La Stanley describes one of the show's key characters:

The lede to today's review of Emily's Reasons Why Not, a new ABC sitcom:

There are many reasons why Hyperion's publisher should have remembered to turn off "track changes" before emailing out a press release.

You know, time zones and all.

On the bright side, this is an improvement for the Post: at least the god-fucking-awful photo actually is of Avril Lavigne. Er, we think. We can't really tell.

The spanking-new issue of Us Weekly has a fantastic piece on the diet tricks of teen starlet Lindsay Lohan. What timing — Vanity Fair has a similar article in its latest issue. So how does Lindsay stay slim?

On a morning when nearly all the media were wrong about the fate of the trapped miners, because they all received misinformation from the mining company, it's nice to see that the New York Post can live up to its reputation and be even wronger than everyone else.

This is — how do you say? — a big fucking fuck-up. And for once, it's not even the Times' fault.

The picture at right is featured (in an alarmingly large fashion, we might add) in the Village Voice with the caption, "The inimitable Sinead O'Connor."

According to the online version of Page Six, your sweet little Asian neighbor is actually Queen Sofia of Spain.

According to a very indignant Drudge Report, CNN repeatedly flashed a large "X" over Vice-President Cheney's face during a live speech aired yesterday.

20-year-old Brooklyn student Julia Minard was found murdered in a remote Belizean village.