• The NY Post delivered this morning with its headline for the scandalous Governor-Spitzer-pays-for-sex story. [NYP]

• "New York" and "Tailor Made" are confident that their relationship will thrive despite the fact that they live on separate coasts. Whew! The whole world breathes a sigh of relief. [People]

• The Vatican just released a new list of "sinful behaviors." I probably engaged in at least one of them while I was there last weekend. Oops. [CNN]

• According to the New York Times, Snoop "hints at some existential quandaries with its suggestion of a stumble over selfhood" with his ninth album, the just-released Ego Trippin'. [NYT]

• 10,000 BC is racist, bad, and historically inaccurate. Or so I hear. [TP]

Snoop just released a new video for his song, "Neva Hafta Wurry," in which he muses upon a career of professional hits and personal misses. No girls on leashes, though. There's a chance for him to make it on Oprah, yet!

Snoop recently joined Ludacris and 50 Cent in his vocal disapproval of Oprah Winfrey's vocal disapproval of their livelihoods. He's disappointed that Oprah criticized his lyrics on her show without allowing him on to defend himself.

“I really was offended, because I kind of like her,” he said. “Liked her. I’m very articulate, very intellectual. She didn’t even get a chance to even know me.” She might have learned that the rap star is cleaning up his act: His new album, he told reporters, “is for the women.” He said he wanted to “give the ladies something, because I’ve been so mean and so rude.”

Well, he knows he's been mean and rude. And knowing is half the battle. Snoop went on to say that people criticized Jesus all the time, so it is totally fine that they do the same to him. See, Oprah? Articulate and intellectual. Meanwhile, Oprah has no qualms about having Diddy, who clearly has misogynist tendencies, on her show. Although he tends to act very wide-eyed, innocent, and stuttery when he's around older women — check him out on the View sometime — so I don't blame her for being fooled. [NYMag]

• Whoa! This explains why Ne-Yo wears all of those hats. But what's the explanation for his reckless driving? [TMZ]

• Snoop smokes weed in public. Is anyone else as shocked as I am? [AHH]

• Ew, Shemar Moore. Just ew. [PH]

• Black coaches need to be a little less naive. [FH]

• Ebony throws a pre-Oscar bash. [CL]

• The Glow in the Dark tour dates have been announced — you know you were waiting. [MTV]

• All the best quotes come from Snoop's reality show. [MG]

• Is Jamie Lynn Spears going to make an appearance in Lil Romeo's new reality show? [SOHH]

• After rap, of course, country music has the most references to alcohol, drugs, tobacco. Oh, y'all have never heard "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off?" [Reuters]

• At some point, you've got to ask this woman, why the hell were you O.J. Simpson's girlfriend to begin with? [PH]

CONTINUED »

• Well, at least Michael Vick is keeping his millions of dollars in signing bonuses. [NYT]

• On Super Tuesday Eve, Hillary cries again. I checked out the video, and I really don't think they're fake tears. But still. [TS]

• Michael Ealy will play Will Smith's brother in Seven Pounds. [BV]

• Larry King and Snoop: A meeting of the minds. [RL]

• Paris Hilton might be glad to hear that 50 Cent got kicked out of an Arizona mall just like she got kicked off of his stage. [AHH]

The Critic's Choice Awards went down last night in Santa Monica, and one sincerely hopes that the stars made the most out of it, since the Golden Globes have been reduced to a press conference. Big winners included No Country For Old Men and the cast of Hairspray, and Don Cheadle was awarded for his humanitarian work. More pics and the awards results after the jump.

CONTINUED »

• Jay-Z's appearing in videos with Bill Gates? Hmmm… [ABC]

• Canadians for Barack Obama! Not that it matters. [CTV]

• In the U.S., our presidents' kids go to Ivy Leagues and campaign for their parents. In France, they produce songs for David Banner. Cultural differences. [AHH]

• Snoop doesn't want his kids following his show biz path. Who would have though Snoop would make a better parenting decision than Will Smith? [NW50]

• More black people get arrested for weed in Seattle than whites. All the white kids there should take a bong hit to toast their good fortune. [SPI]

• Somebody needs to give the Iowa Butter Lady some books or something. [Jossip]

• Diddy's getting a star on the Walk of Fame. Now he'll be even more insufferable. [EUR]

• Are you really a rapper if you don't have a secret son tucked away somewhere? [C&D]

• Skillz does his annual year-end wrap up. [XXL]

We all know what Snoop likes — Crips, jokes, hip hop, dogs, little league football, weed — but do we know what he hates? According to this quote from MTV Radio, he loves Nas and looks forward to his Nigger album because he hates hypocrisy. I think that's what he's saying. But if it is, he's certainly throwing stones inside of a very fragile glass house.

"I love him just for that, good sh*t Nas! F**k them! F**k all them rich, punk motherf**k*rs sitting on their motherf**k*ng heels trying to dictate to us what we should be saying. Because behind closed doors they saying B***h, nigg**, ho, and all that sh*t to…Everybody says the word."

And according to a clip from his new E! reality show, he hates needles, specifically ones that are going to be used to draw his blood. Perhaps he's concerned that the vast amounts of THC running through his veins might render any blood tests inconclusive. After the jump, check out the video of Snoop yelling for help at the doctor's office.

CONTINUED »

Snoop Dogg appeared on Ellen today, before a uniformly white and curiously captivated studio audience, and talked about his little league football team. In a roundabout, nervous way, Ellen asked him how his legal foibles affected his children and young players. He said it teaches them how to do right. Hmm. Interesting take. The audience liked it, at least.

T-Pain + Dave Chappelle's Version of Prince + A Past-His-Prime Rapper Who Fancies Himself A Comedian + Anything Unsexy + Confusion = Snoop's new video for his song Sexual Seduction