Nicknames? Shit. Who knew people with nicknames were getting killed? Now the tide will definitely turn against the war.

Meanwhile, over at FishbowlNY:

CNN's current unscientific homepage poll:

And on "her" visit, we're sure Wilma will really tear the place up, frolicking in the surf, lingering on the beaches, and trashing whatever hotel rooms she sees. She'll ravage the buffets and shut down the bars. Whoa boy, the locals will sure remember her visit long after she's gone.

Bush Job Rating Continues to Drop [CNN.com]

See, you might think this is shockingly bad, sad news on CNN.com's front page right now, reflecting Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's total lack of informed judicial opinions or willingness to do anything than exactly what the White House wants:

And for his next project, CNN reports, Crowe might even make one of these newfangled talking pictures.

Sad thought it is, we knew an Anderson Cooper backlash would begin soon enough.

Many readers wrote in to protest that we had not devoted enough attention to yesterday's remaindered Anderson Cooper essay on gray hair. In our defense, it's from August of 2003. Though the fact that it was originally published in Details did pique our interest. When we checked our vast glossy back-issue library, we found the original, pre-CNN version of the essay. Excerpts are presented here:

When two world famous journalists sit down for a chat, you can expect some hard-hitting questions and take-no-prisoners grilling — and Lou Dobbs, interviewing Judith Miller last night, didn't disappoint:

Judith Miller will be on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" at 6:40 p.m. EST to promote her new book, titled Redacted and made up of 150 blank pages.

CNN continues to easily win the coveted "18-35-year-old sadistic voyeur" demographic.

A transcript cannot really capture what we're told was the true stoneditude of the live event, but, still, it's worth nothing at least this snippet of Chris Rock's appearance on Anderson Cooper 360° last night, touting the relief efforts he and has wife are spearheading for Katrina victims in Houston:

This just in from a bookworld tipster who, experience suggests, knows of what he speaks:

The Yale Daily News profiles alumnus Anderson Cooper, and it provides us with both a window into his obsessive nature and insight into his sexy silver tresses:

His minivan?

• First the Democratic Party, now NBC: All our old friends are going after those dastardly God-fearing Red Staters. [NYT]
• Did you know CMJ is actually a magazine? Yeah, we were afraid of that. [Folio:]
• If we've got the chronology right: Jennifer Bleyer tripped through Dead show in Ohio, came to New York and found a shul on the Upper West Side, created Heeb, showed Howard Stern her ass, and quit the magazine. Then she wrote about it. [Nextbook]
• ASME wants to pick the best 40 magazine covers from the last 40 years, and we're betting none will feature Britney. [MW]
• NBC, CNN to open New Orleans news bureaus. Wow — U.S. TV neworks expanding their coverage. We never thought we'd see the day. [AP via USAT]
• Turns out that, yes, "I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport," can, in fact, get you fired from your school paper, even in North Carolina. [N&O]

Finally, the liberal media works in the White House's favor.

• Penthouse raises new cash to take on Playboy. In mud-wrestling, of course, with throngs of fratboys watching. [Folio:]
• Honcho Rick Kaplan might not be much longer for MSNBC, according to rumors. And we're sure his underlings will be sad to see him go. [NYP]
• All of Time Inc.'s business websites — Fortune.com, Business2.com, FSB.com — will be merged into Time Warner's CNNMoney.com. [Folio:]
• Reporting on VF's reporting of WP's reporting. [E&P]
• CNN's Aaron Brown thinks about ABC's Peter Jennings. Then he thinks about that damnded Anderson Cooper, who's hogging all the attention. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• The Post's scratch-off poker game — play to win! Except when winning is impossible. [Media Mob/NYO]

• Steve Fishman reconstructs and deconstructs the entire relationship between Lachlan Murdoch and Rupert, determining that Lach left because dad wouldn't let him be his own man. [NY Mag]
• Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, remains inscrutable — about his job, about his sex life, about where to have lunch — while everyone just keeps loving him more. [NY Mag]
• Everyone, that is, except Franklin Foer, who finds him "a Yale-educated Geraldo Rivera." [TNR]
• Celebrity Living, which apparently wasn't really a gossip mag before, now is. [WWD]
• Enjoying the VMAs with celebs' favorite celeb photographer. [Slate]
• The new business mag for Conde could be what InStyle was for Time Inc., says David Carr. [NYT]
• OK America!'s editor eats at the Olive Garden. Gasp. [The Observer (London)]