[Not everyone in the world gets a double entendre, apparently, especially when it comes to the president's health care (tee hee) package. Image via The Daily Fiona]

"Sarah Palin announces her 2010 target list"

"We accept that Ms. Margolis is not and never has been 'a hooker'," The Independent self-corrects. It gets worse: Zoe Margolis is their writer, and the mistake was a headline that begins, "I Was a Hooker."

I like love NYT film critic Manohla "#RealTalk" Dargis' work. Which is why it hurts to (predictably) point out how cringeworthy it is that even the Times still uses The Big Lebowski as the headline-worthy reference point for Jeff Bridges.

As Jason Linkins says: "Wow. Before Law And Order: SVU rips this headline, they will need to edit it."

In your smiley Tuesday media column: newspapers only sell online subscriptions to lone nuts, Dan Rather loses on appeal, a headline is debated, and Paste magazine lives.

Writes the tipster who spotted the typo currently on NYPost.com: "If only 'Michael Jackson' were easy to spell, like 'Tiger Woods.'" Which is funny, except practically no one is working in media today, including here — expect light posting.

First we thought, "when did we get a job writing headlines for venerable old Roll Call?" but then we were like "oh, there is a sorta sleazy congressman named Dicks. Norman Dicks." Anyways him and Murtha are (mostly) ethical!

Okay, global warming. But on the other hand... [WSJ]

When an apocalypse-themed movie rakes in truckloads of money, no copy editor on Earth, looking to top to a weekend tallies story, could withstand the temptation of the epic cataclysm metaphor waiting for them tied up with a box .

Damn, New York Post. You rocked it with today's headline, which gets placed in the epic "STAB BABY" headline file. But why so serious? Who're they talking about? Pinch Sulzberger? Col Allen? Jon Gosselin? Make guesses, place your bets! Ready?

In your conspiratorial Thursday media column: The New Yorker hates Brazil, Laurel Touby bids you farewell, Pinch Sulzberger ups his humor quotient, and sexism exists.

The Guardian says the "World's First Cocaine Bar" is a roving lounge in Bolivia where backpackers come and sniff cheap coke till their money runs out. Huh. Here we call that a "coke spot" and in some neighborhoods they're everywhere.

Oh New York Post, is there any Bill Clinton story you can't work a Monica Lewinsky joke into? The banner headline over the former president's heroic rescue of Euna Lee and Laura Ling: "BILL CAN STILL GET THE WOMEN"

Pity Itty Bitty Kitty: Cupboard's Bare Cause Mother's There. Snackin' Fatty Dragged in Paddy Wagon.

Wait, this can't be right.

Whoops: Yelp signed up "SF Women Against Rape" as a sponsor of its email newsletter, then ran their ad under an insinuating headline about bicycles that read, "Put the Fun Between Your Legs." Cue the outrage!

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the surviving teenage Somali pirate, was back in court yesterday, making the best of his unplanned NYC visit. So far his main contribution has been to stimulate New York Post headline writers:

No big surprise. [NYT]

"STAB DAD NABBED IN DRAG." That's like an entire section of the Post's rhyming dictionary.