- Yeah, the former head of LAPD internal affairs cops to the affair with a sergeant under his command — but only for three years!
- Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally apologized (sort of) today for calling fellow Democrat Hector De La Torre the most racist lawmaker ever: "Events in the past weeks have caused me to reflect on my intemperate statement about race and politics."
- Harry Shearer's author interview with Judith Regan was going fine although "every few minutes, some little wisp of steam escapes that warns of the eruption to come" — then boom!
- The Clippers are safe from Allen Iverson: he's Denver-bound.
- Hotel rooms are booked and prices high this week, but Mark Lacter found at least one deal downtown.
- Residents in Echo Park win one against the LAUSD.
- New editors to submit material to at the New York Times editorial and op-ed pages.
- Wendy McCaw sued Susan Paterno, a journalism prof at Chapman University, over her American Journalism Review piece on McCaw's mess in Santa Barbara. Head scratching all around.
- Perez Hilton tells Fishbowl LA he's confident that stealing paparazzi photos of celebs isn't immoral or illegal.
- LA Voice.org can't buy the idea that the MTA is rated #1 at anything. That cool German traffic flow simulation we found last year also turns up.
- David Markland's noms for L.A. Grinch of the Year at Metroblogging includes the Jill Stewart LA Weekly's newest freelance politics reporter.
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