Looks like Carlee and Steve Dunleavy aren't the only noble beasts breeding in the pages of today's Post. Todd Venezia reports on Hercules, a 900 lb. liger: a tiger/lion.

In today's Post, Steve Dunleavy spends some quality time with budding celebrity dog, Carlee.

Good old Andrea. Just when you start to think that The Post's hard-hitting harpy might be going soft, she finds a new straw man to shred:

The Post offers comic relief (more than usual, we mean) by asking dudes to critique eight women s favorite sexy Valentine s Day get-ups today:

WWD's 'Memo Pad' column reports today that New York Post copy editor (and one-time Gawker interview subject), Dawn Eden (right), was fired from the paper because she:

Thanks to a stunning (and slightly stomach-turning) expos on hipster tastemakers like DJ Leigh Lezark (at right) and the PR people who love them, we get to meet 36-year old Tommy Saleh, a self-annointed "tastemaker" who makes Jonathan Cheban look like a kitten:

Always one to stoke the flames of controversy (or light them to begin with), The Post has an item on the breaking scandal involving... groundhogs. Gersh Kuntzman has the skinny on what might prove to be the groundhog weather predicting industry's Watergate: GROUNDHOG FRAY: FORECASTS DIFFER.

· Batten down the hatches! The fashionistas are coming! Fashion week starts this weekend; prepare yourself. [Style.com]
· "They pick on me all the time. After this, they won't want to give us any more press at all." Oh, hahahaha. [NYT]
· Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner has "officially shit the bed." [MusicRevu]
· British people: obsessed with weather. [Rising Slowly]

It may still be winter, but it's never too soon for journalism students to start thinking about their first big job in the writhing snake pit we call the Manhattan media world. Finding that perfect first gig is tough, but the jobs board at Ed2010 has some good listings, like this one:

Right now (2:42 PM), a mariachi band is loudly wandering around the Post, bringing festive music to the beleagured features staff.

No one benefits from a break-up. Except when it's a celebrity break-up and the weekly press is involved, apparently.

Oh, how we adore the dizzy-headed photo editors over at the Post! They often give us such a jolly chuckle, especially when they totally fuck up pithy items in the hard copy of the paper. Today they've made the fatal mistake of identifying the lady at right as The O.C. star Mischa Barton, when anyone with a bad teen-drama-habit would know that the picture is of Rachel Bilson. Like, duh. We can only imagine how many pimple-faced, adolescent boys are wrought with confusion over this issue; are they masturbating to Mischa or Rachel? And, more importantly, can we ever trust the mainstream press to get the crucial facts right?

Post restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo breaks this big scoop in a sidebar to the paper's hard-hitting local weather coverage:

· Actor Jamie Foxx comes clean about his rumored sex pictures: they're real and "they're nice." Disturbingly enough, columnists Rush & Molloy also endorse Foxx as being rather well-endowed. Maybe the married columnists are looking for a little threesome? [R&M]
· Are state Republicans trying to destroy Fernando Ferrer's campaign for mayor? And since when did the Post run a sympathetic item towards a Democrat? [Page Six]
· Kazakhstan doesn't really love comedian Ali G. Embassy spokesman Roman Vassilenko says to Forward magazine, "...it's not quite helpful and perhaps harmful to portray a country where 'Throw the Jew down the well' is a famous folk song." [Lowdown]
· Because there's really no reason to live anymore, Donald Trump will be paid $1 million per hour for his Learning Annex appearance. [Page Six]

The Post is calling its group coverage of CBS and Dan Rather's fall from grace "Bad Day at Black Rock."

God. We hate to do this, but there seems to be a problem with our local tabloids. For some reason, they've gone thinking they're family papers and, as such, have failed to include the sort of sporty snatch photos that most tabloid readers are looking for. While both the Post and Daily News included snapshots of tennis ho Anna Kournikova frolicking about St. Barts in her precious yellow bikini, they managed to NOT print the photos of Anna inspecting her ladyflower. Huh? Wha? Suddenly Col Allen goes highbrow? We're so confused.

Now that we've got your attention, let us redirect it to the Daily News' star columnist Lenore Skenazy. Skenazy (whose unfortunate surname has us frantically searching for a joke involving either "skeezy" or "nasty") is hot on the trail of "a huge new movement with worldwide ramifications," and she's not talking about Southeast Asian sea levels. Rather, Skenazy is alerting the world to another epic crisis involving women wearing curlers out IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! So many Desperate Housewives references to be made! From coast to coast, there have been multiple sightings of women leaving the confines of the kitchen and appearing unkempt and be-rollered in public. Is it shameful? Does it redefine our notions of femininity? Or does it just make you think of grandma? And why does this constitute as an acceptable column? So many questions, but we'll have to wait for Skenzy's Sunday column for more answers. We're literally choking on our own anticipation.
A New Tease For Desperate Housewives [NYDN]

First, Post books editor and columnist Sara Nelson departed to Publishers Weekly. She tells The Times that she's already making some plans for the 131 year-old publication:

Today's Post offers a number of useful hints and tricks to "get to the top" this year (e.g., "marry a millionaire," "make a pile of money for doing very little," "become a boldface name," "become a better, more generous, kindhearted and sincere person"—guess which one we made up).

The 'Post' features an ad for Barnes & Noble in the form of an article that suggests the book behemoth is the best place to find a date.