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Thursday, Feb. 14, is Valentine’s Day.

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NPR’s Michelle Norris interviewed the Huckster on “All Things Considered” today. Not a single question or answer on squirrel munching.

I was gravely disappointed. MSNBC’s Scarborough did a much better job getting to the bottom of this topic.

SQUIRREL SHAME? Is Huckabee hiding his culinary roots?
(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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Michael Vick’s pit bulls are getting the celeb-reality treatment. The much-pitied animals will be featured on the upcoming season of the National Geographic Channel’s “Dogtown,” according to a recent story in the Hollywood Reporter.

National Geographic Channel said Monday that its new series “Dogtown” will spend the next few months documenting the attempted rehabilitation of 22 dogs that belonged to jailed Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and are now residing at Dogtown, the Best Friends animal sanctuary in Utah.

“Dogtown” is in production on new episodes set to premiere in the summer.

The series will focus on four of the toughest cases as the experts at Dogtown try to “resocialize these seriously aggressive pit bulls.”

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I keep reading that an old American spy satellite is going to crash to Earth soon.

Unlike a lot of the stuff the media have told me over the years I’m supposed to be afraid of (radon, Y2K, apples with razor blades, strangers offering me rides to the hospital to see my injured parents, tuna, Jamaican drug posses, anti-depressants, iced tea, Ice-T, cell phones, stuffed koala bears) I’m actually kind of nervous about this satellite.

What if I’m walking the dogs and, SMACK, a chunk of sizzling-hot spy satellite crushes me? Stranger things have happened.

How are the dogs going to get home? And if they get home, how are they going to open the garage door? They don’t know the code. Even if they did know the code, they can’t reach the keypad.

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(Editor’s note: Lianna Shen is one of our newest interns at CL. She’s not only new to Atlanta, she’s new to the U.S. Below, she shares her thoughts about some of what she’s seen on her way to the office.)

I have a confession: I’m Canadian, born and bred.

I moved to Mableton from Toronto this month to intern at Creative Loafing. The quickest route to the office from my home is Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, aka Bankhead Highway.

On my first day at CL, my boyfriend insisted that I take something other than “Hood Road,” but I refused. I didn’t want to get lost on my first day. When I got to work, my supervisor made some comments about Bankhead Highway, notably that he remembered hearing about some guy getting pulled out of his truck and stabbed awhile ago. (more…)

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A Midtown pig shot at Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street on Wednesday around 10 p.m.

(photo by Thomas Wheatley)

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Employees of the Cobb-based Weather Channel had a rude awakening Thursday morning when they showed up for work and discovered their company is being sold. According to one source at the cable channel, rank-and-file staffers didn’t know they were on the auction block until someone spotted this item in the New York Times online.

According to the Times, the WC’s owner, Landmark Communications, a private media company based in Virginia, is seeking to collect as much as $5 billion for the channel and its popular website, weather.com. No word yet on what would become of the channel’s Forecast Earth website, where climatologist Heidi Cullen has ruffled some conservative feathers with her dissing of global warming deniers.

The NYT predicts that NBC, Comcast, Time Warner and even Faux News could be interested in bidding on the channel, which, appropriately, is located just off Windy Hill Road.

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I, for one, am quite excited by the news that a Dutch company wants to build a theme park in Atlanta containing miniature versions of familiar landmarks.

Miniature cities are quite popular in Europe and elsewhere. Fans of the film Hot Fuzz will recall the climactic shoot-out among the wee buildings of the model village, as they’re called in England. I’ve actually visited the model version of the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water. But it seems the builders of Japan’s Tobu World Square clearly weren’t informed that NYC’s World Trade Center did not overlook Versailles.

The ADA press release claims it’s looking around Atlanta for potential sites for such an attraction. But, honestly, America doesn’t have the kind of quaint Tudor cottages, French palaces or Bavarian castles that give model villages their charm. So what would an Atlanta park commemorate in miniature? The Big Chicken? The Mall of Georgia? Spaghetti Junction?

At the very least, a miniature version of the U.S. of A. could help provide kids with something of a geography lesson so they don’t turn out like Kellie “I thought Europe was a country” Pickler.

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Jordan: Cinemechanica’s The Martial Arts. It’s not the individual tracks but it’s like an emotional roller-coaster ride if you listen to it from beginning to the end. It’s progressive indie. It’s awesome. The worst is the Cat Empire’s Two Shoes. It’s crap. Tone-deaf retards. They’re holier-than-thou musicians that aren’t on the level of being holier than thou. It’s trying to be radio-friendly. It doesn’t work. It takes a certain personality to listen to that crap — idiot. If you relate to it you’re just as bad as the music.

Dee: Best is Bad Brains’ Build a Nation. When they decided to come back, it sounded like new and old stuff put together. They put on a really reggae vibe and a really good punk vibe. They’ve been feeding off both and it comes off as a new look on music. Worst? The Killers’ Sam’s Town is horrible. All their music is horrible. They’re stuck in that whole “too indie” phase. They’re trying to come out with their own style, but they’re still making music that kids listen to like they’re in middle school or the ninth grade.

Bri: Venus Doom by HIM. His voice is just like so amazing and deep, and it’s foreign so it makes it like 10 times cooler. They know how to harmonize really well. It’s really easy listening. Really smooth. The new Good Charlotte CD — Good Morning Revival is the worst. They used to be really good, but they’re now mainstream and just crap. Before they got famous they really had their own sound; now it’s annoying. It’s made for American teenagers, and American teenagers don’t have good taste in music.

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They look sweet, don’t they? Don’t be fooled. They are twin tornadoes of destruction, these two.

11 things I wish Taz and Little Bit hadn’t destroyed in 2007:

11) An iPod cord

10) The blinds that now carry cat-chew marks

9) One light bulb, from a floor lamp they managed to topple over

8) Drapes pulled down (multiple times, including last night)

7) A framed photograph that sat on top of my CD collection (which meant a high-flying leap worthy of Spiderman)

6) One set of box springs (work in progress)

5) The antique lamp that my mother gave me

4) The iMac computer they knocked off the desk (thankfully undamaged)

3) The antique oil lamp that belonged to my grandparents

2) My new eyeglasses

1) My old eyeglasses

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Mathilde and Sarah

The following list may be amusing, but it’s not a joke.

11 things I wish Mathilde and Sarah didn’t eat in 2007

11. Two hand towels

10. Eight tomatoes

9. The door trim inside the bathroom

8. Handwritten notes for a cover story I wrote in July

7. A bag of roasted, salted peanuts

6. A double CD recording of the Genesis reunion concert I attended with my mom in September

5. Smile by Brian Wilson

4. Approximately seven loaves of bread

3. A can of sardines

2. A $10 bill

1. A $20 bill

And in case you’re wondering what a dog looks like after eating an entire loaf of bread, click here.

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Certainly the most unique press release I’ve received in a while comes from Libertarian presidential candidate George Phillies: his family recipe for Kaurabides (sic) cookies.

The press release from the Phillies campaign noted that rather than offering campaign promises or political rhetoric, in the spirit of the season Phillies decided to offer a more personal gift. “From my family to yours, America. I wish you the happiest of holidays and best hopes for peace, liberty and prosperity in the new year.”

Of course, we have to include his recipe for kourabiedes, which are Greek cookies:
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From the Christian Science Monitor:

Israeli military finds cluster bomb use in Lebanon war was legal

Ladies and gentlemen, after impartially investigating myself, I have concluded I have done nothing wrong.

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You may have noticed our print cover this week: A Jack Russell terrier named Roux is digging her teeth deep into a Michael Vick jersey.

No. 7. Get it? 2007? Well, I thought it was a witty idea.

Roux, who’s owned and trained by my friend Melissa Nunnink, actually was Staff Photographer Joeff Davis’ second model for the cover shoot. The first was Bella, a pit bull whose time was volunteered by former CL staffer Noah Gardenswartz.

Here’s the layout we gussied up for Bella. We liked both shots, but I wanted to show folks Bella to let you decide whether we picked the right photo. And also, well, because she’s kinda cute — doncha think? And, looking into Bella’s noble pose … doesn’t it make you even more sick that Michael Vick would pick on pit bulls?

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