I would imagine South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford just breathed a considerable sigh of relief.

Quoted: Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums -- including "Off the Wall," "Thriller" and "Bad" -- and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.

I can't decide which is the bigger piece of news here, 'Coolio is still touring' or 'Australians still like Coolio'.

Quoted: Rapper-turned-reality TV star Coolio has scrapped his upcoming Australian tour following his recent arrest for drug possession.

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The funny thing is the state of Maryland missed the point of this song (prejudice sounds really stupid when you say it aloud) so badly that they actually voted on legislation to make it a crime to play this song on the radio.

Quoted: Randy Newman hates on short people.

Too hardcore for HBO and Kanye West's "Curb Your Enthusiasm"? They need to shoot the pilot and release it on YouTube. This sounds just too interesting to pass up.

Quoted: "It was really good, but ... I think it was too hard-core for HBO. Also, HBO's management shifted. HBO doesn't have a good track record when it comes to black shows, and I felt like that may have had something to do with it also,"

Quoted: Charles did say that the show is roughly Kanye's version of Larry David's show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," an idea that Kanye thought up himself. "What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, 'I'm the black Larry David.' That's the first thing he said to me. So it's like a Kanye-and-'Curb' show, it's kind of improvised about the situations and stuff.

Quoted: There’s nothing surreptitious about the message of Boston rap trio East Coast Avengers’ new single. In “Kill Bill O’Reilly,” the lyrics call for the Fox News star to “be hanged like Benito Mussolini and otherwise killed.”

Keith Olbermann, care to comment?

Quoted: “Gentlemen, I’m the last person to disagree with you on the chicken hawk, lying coward, sexist, racist, needs a face-lift, whore stuff, but you really need to re-cut this track,” Olbermann said addressing the Avengers last week on his MSNBC show “Countdown.” “Nobody’s life should be threatened, not even in the hyperbole of the moment. Beside, you are rappers. You have better ethics than Bill O’Reilly does. Live up to them. Don’t live down to him. Word to your mother.”

lulz.

The truth finally surfaces and my suspicions are confirmed. Its too bad, I wanted to see the third act.

Quoted: The McCain Girls, whose videos exposed several hidden truths--including the fact that "McCain" rhymes with "Rain"--have come clean: It was all a joke. In other words, they meant to do that. According to The New York Times, the humor web site 23/6 (the same folks who brought us the butt-kickin' Swift Kids for Truth) hired Jon Benjamin to produce both McCain Girls videos--"Raining McCain" & "Here Comes McCain Again"--in order to make fun of the campaign song phenomenon.

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Last time I posted one of these I mentioned the possibility that the McCain girls might actually be Democratic subterfuge intended to make John McCain and his campaign seem ridiculously un-hip. Now I am certain of it. What better way to heal the internal fractures of a brutal primary than to openly mock your opponent with 15 year-old Annie Lennox songs and make it look like his idea.

Quoted: The McCain girls music video for "Here Comes McCain Again."

I can't figure out what Donnie Wahlberg has to gain from this. He had just carved out a nice little niche as a second detective/tough guy in a variety of roles in Hollywood. He was in the Sixth Sense, Band Of Brothers and the Saw movies. I guess that doesn't pay the bills.

Quoted: “We’ve got some new material. We’re very exciting,” Wahlberg said. But, he said, the group will remain true to the high-energy choreography that made them famous. “We’re going to dance, we’re going to sing, we’re going to do it all.”

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Honest campaign support? Or left wing viral espionage to make John McCain appear that much more uncool? You be the judge.

Quoted: The McCain Girls sing "It's Raining McCain"