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Governor Blagojevich says the CTA's budget shortfall is the agency's own fault. Any day now, he's going to start responding to questions with "so's your face." [Trib]

John Lambert was apparently beaten to death in jail a year ago. He was in a cell with one other person, but no charges have ben filed. [Trib]

A Montana middle school teacher is doing fine after he rode his bicycle into a bear. [AP]

"Sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms-length." [AP]

A drunk 17-year-old girl was pulled over this morning in Indiana for driving 118 mph down I-65. She said she just wanted to get to school on time. [Trib]

Roger Ebert is not a Sarah Palin fan. [S-T]

Chicago Public School students took 17,523 AP exams in 2008, which is more than twice the number they took in 2004. As someone who, nearly a decade after she graduated from high school, still has "oh my God, I forgot to study for the test" dreams, I cannot stress enough how glad I am the test-taking portion of my life is behind me. [S-T]

My nerdy, nerdy heart just exploded: winners of a personal data visualization contest. [Flowing Data]

Well, they just don't do pediatric studies like they used to: "Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators." [Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics]