Tony Snow's Struggle For A Normal Life [Tony Snow]

This is sad: Tony Snow, the former White House spokesman and newly-hired CNN talking head, was taken to the hospital this morning and canceled a speech at Eastern Washington University as well as an appearance on CNN. Snow has been battling cancer since a 2005 and left his White House job in 2007, saying he needed to earn more money. His cancer, he said, was not behind his departure, and in fact was in remission. Just this Monday, Snow said on a radio show that "the stuff I have right now is not all that rough" and that a recent CAT scan showed his tumors weren't growing. Snow is maintaining an optimistic outlook, and trying to live a normal life. But, for the moment at least, he can't. Whatever one thinks of Snow's work on behalf of the Bush administration, he is a human being, with a very human desire to keep working, earn some money for his family and focus on the life still before him, rather than spend time contemplating some of the darker questions somewhere down the road. [KXLY, TVNewser]

Barack Obama's Abercrombie Boys [Celebrity Science]

This mystery is bugging me: Why were the three young guys behind Barack Obama during his concession speech tonight all wearing Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts? Maybe it's a plot by the Obama campaign to win back the gay community, which has something of a taste for the youth clothing retailer and, especially, its catalogs, but whose vote is basically owned by Hillary Clinton. But gays aren't really a swing vote in the upcoming Indiana or North Carolina primaries, nor in the Democratic party's upcoming battle against Republican nominee John McCain. Perhaps, instead, this is some kind of bizarre attempt at product placement by Abercrombie, trying to latch on to some of Obama's rock-star appeal. Watch the Abercrombie boys shuffle around and holler during Obama's speech in the video after the jump.

Movie Industry Starts Hunting Kids With Dogs (No Seriously) [Pirates! Pirates!]

The Motion Picture Association of America is carting two pirate-DVD-sniffing dogs around the continent in honor of "World Intellectual Property Day." They stopped by an L.A. elementary school to give the demonstration shown here: "Lucky" and "Flo" sniff a bunch of boxes of DVDs to find the pirated ones. When I think that the training of these dogs could have been wasted on detecting bombs, I feel so warm inside. But that's not all the MPAA is doing to remind people that it will hunt us down for stealing Harold and Kumar 2!

They've also posted a billboard of Jackie Chan in Beijing's Silk Market. (The market, like Times Square, has had all the good illegal bits gutted out.) "Protect the movies," says the caption. "Say NO to piracy!" What are we protecting, Rush Hour 3?

Democratic Primaries To Continue To Eat Your Soul [Hillary Clinton]

The major networks are calling the Pennsylvania primaries for Hillary Clinton, and with 31 percent of precincts reporting she has a comfortable 10 percentage point lead over Barack Obama, not that her margin of victory really matters, because Clinton has already promised to keep arguing with her Democratic presidential rival forever, until every last American is a broken alcoholic begging for mercy from this endless campaign. "Mrs. Clinton is leaving no doubt that this race goes forward," said the Times tonight. The next primary is May 6, in Indiana and North Carolina. Even if Clinton ends up with a vanishingly small margin of victory in Pennsylvania and virtually no chance of winning the nomination, the media is still going to be saturated with campaign "news." Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy a couple more bottles of scotch..

Who Will Be Journal's Pretend Managing Editor? [Wall Street Journal]

"Almost all agree that Robert Thomson, who was named publisher back in December when News Corp., took over the paper, will assume most of the control of the newsroom decisions, but that CEO Rupert Murdoch will need to pick someone from inside the paper to take on the ME slot to keep the reporters and lower-level editors happy... Nik Doegun, the current editor of the Money & Investing section; John Bussey, former foreign editor and now Washington bureau chief; and Alan Murray, executive editor of WSJ Online, were named as candidates to be a new No. 2 person in the newsroom behind Thomson." [Talking Biz News]

The Martyrdom of Marcus Brauchli [Wall Street Journal]

The Wall Street Journal's managing editor, who's just resigned, went along with many of News Corporation's plans for the business paper. "It's hard to think he could've jumped much higher," a Journal reporter told Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici. For an explanation of Rupert Murdoch's frenzy of activity, here's the analysis of the motives of the News Corporation boss.

Winner! [Cnn]

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Yesterday, CNN introduced new headline t-shirts and we bemoaned their shamelessness. Then we shamelessly held a contest for the best fake ones! Betty Crocker wins (with an assist from Tnuc)! Simple. Effective. Also it may get you arrested. Unfortunately you can't actually buy these hacked shirts, nor can you even hack them anymore. Maybe we'll try to work out something else?

Damien Hirst Has Some T-Shirts To Get Rid Of [Fashion]

Famous artperson Damien Hirst may sell the jeans he makes for $80,000, but he has some t-shirts that are much more affordable. They're 30 pounds, which is slightly less than $80,000. The catch is that all the money goes to support the ominous RED (Global Fund), the celebrity-infused charity that is either saving the world, or plotting to take it over on the low. The shirts feature works of art that the diamond skull craftsman auctioned off earlier to support that charity. Overall, I'm pretty afraid of them. But if you like butterflies, or pills, or balloon animals, you might like the ones after the jump. Cause hey, celebrity artist on your shirt, right?

DAMIEN HIRST MADE THESE SHIRTS RIGHT HERE:

Poor Katie [Bad Day]

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