• Candy is dandy: Chocolate-caramel-peanut goodness with a healthy dose of homophobia? Reactions from football players watching the 'mo-themed Snickers Super Bowl commercials suggest kinda ... well ... yeah.

• Comic violence: Turner Broadcasting and a New York-based marketing firm agree to pay $2 million for their role in the Cartoon Network "terrorist" attack that shut down Boston last week.

• Department of inevitability: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani filed his "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission, all but assuring a presidential run in 2008. In case his recent stumping in New Hampshire and South Carolina weren't indication enough.

• That's 13 zeroes: President Bush submitted a $2.9 trillion budget to Congress. Neither Dems nor Republicans are expected to give it much support.