Chilean miner Edison Pena—here to run the NYC Marathon—has been sightseeing, mugging for cameras, and enjoying himself in New York. But the Post says "Miner Is Whiner In Apple" after Pena said a street hot dog was "so-so."

In your backstabby Tuesday media column: Aussie papers want Col Allan back, Daily Beast staffers are pissed at their bosses, Tribune Co is canning its executives, News Corp's paywall is still flickering, and Variety's booting its editor. Hard times.

Blind item! Which trainwreck rock star got into a sexy situation with a gossip columnist and a sex writer? Oh, I can't bear to keep it secret: Courtney Love, gossip don Lloyd Grove, and gigolo-hiring Post writer Mandy Stadtmiller.

The New York Post mocks a teenager for answering the police's questions. Your law-and-order paper, folks.

The conservative New York Post tabloid, with a deep sigh of defeat, has endorsed Democratic scion Andrew Cuomo over Republican gay club kingpin Carl Paladino in the New York gubernatorial race. Was it something Paladino said?

The New York Post followed a man home because he peed outside a courthouse.

17 year-old car crash victim Jesse Shipley's classmates were shocked to discover his brain floating in a jar during a field trip a few years ago. Now, another family has come forward with similar charges against New York's Medical Examiner.

Carl Paladino, the thick-browed dangerous thug who is an alarmingly serious candidate for New York's governorship, now says he might file trespassing charges against the New York Post. The same paper whose editor he threatened, yesterday! Carl Paladino is insane.

Carl Paladino, the loony Republican candidate for Governor of New York, had to be separated from Post reporter Fred Dicker after the two got into a physical altercation. Want to see two middle-aged men get up in each other's business?

If you only read one story about hemorrhoids today, make sure it's this Post gem: A "quick-fingered" proctologist "was done in by 'rhoid rage" after patients complained he was overbilling and spending "no more than 15 minutes" treating their hemorrhoids.

Looking for another angry old white man's take on the "Ground Zero Mosque"? Then read this.

A city program to introduce possums to Brooklyn as rat killers has apparently backfired and now, according to the Post, "some Brooklynites have become terrified to go into their yards at night." Tornadoes, Madonna, and now rabies? Brooklyn is cursed.

The Post says it's wise to seek shelter underground if NYC is nuked.

The New York Post reports today that a woman was raped near Penn Station early Monday morning. Police quickly caught the perp, who had a long rap sheet. What do the Post's famously insightful commenters have to say about this?

Associated Content is the Yahoo-owned content farm which churns out highly search-optimized—but barely-readable—articles on such topics as 'How to Find the Right Color Bathing Suit for Your Body Type!' They have a strange, clown-obsessed employee!

Oh, the New York Post thinks that guy who slashed a cabbie just for being a Muslim is a "Disgrace." That would only be ironic if the NYP had somehow helped foster a hysterical anti-Muslim environment in our city recently.

Breaking: some assholes who hate Muslims find a high school test insufficiently hateful of Muslims. Well then! Destroy it! Burn the books! Kill the teachers! For Jesus! Below, the hateful Dirty Muslin-loving test questions exposed by New York's greatest tabloid.

According to media hardman Michael Wolff, the anti-"Ground Zero Mosque" push from the News Corp-owned New York Post and Fox News is a reflection of the company's internal power struggles. And also, CEO Rupert Murdoch's "primitive, weird, reactionary" racism.

"It's the way they surround the story. With OTB results and ads for phone sex." This fake New York Post version of the New York Times' infernal, inescapable 'Weekender' ad does have its moments.

Given the dearth of high-powered minorities in the media, it should be easy to keep them straight. Not if you're the New York Post. This paragon of racial sensitivity thinks all black media people work for the same company.