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Somewhere, something went horribly, horribly wrong...

My good friends at American Greetings screwed up and ended up with a Valentine's Day card that looks like it has SpongeBob SquarePants in blackface. Oops!

He's black. And with his trademark big teeth and wide eyes, this SpongeBob seems similar to offensive images of African Americans portrayed in minstrel shows decades ago.

American Greetings officials said Thursday they were surprised and puzzled when the Free Press made them aware of a complaint about the product.

"We absolutely fell out of our chairs when we saw it," said Carol Miller, director of business development for the Cleveland-based company. "We're obviously going to be talking to Wal-Mart as well as Nickelodeon . . . to offer our sincere apologies for this product making it to market."

Miller said the cards, which were printed and packaged in China, are mistakes, but she and other officials said they were trying to determine how that happened.

Heh. I should log onto their copy of AMS and look up the original...

Rumors that John Kerry appeared at an anti-war rally with Jane Fonda have been blown out of the water by a new photo that shows the young Kerry with tourist guy:

Developing...

Wes Clark dropped out of the race for president. His message to supporters is posted on the front page of his site. But on the campaign blog, it's as if time has stood still since Monday, February 9th.

Why no thank you message -- from Clark, from the tech team?

Clark's endorsing Kerry today. Maybe they'll use their tech tools advocate for Kerry. But it seems not.