HILLARY NOT RUNNING: “I am absolutely ruling it out,” Hillary says.

So did Mr. N-Word.

HOWARD DEAN, CANDIDATE OF GRAFFITI: While the rest of the world works to get rid of graffiti, the Howard Dean campaign commissions it.

OVERSEER FAULTS LAPD ON CITIZEN COMPLAINTS: The Dog Trainer reports: “Undercover LAPD officers posing as citizens trying to report police misconduct were routinely dismissed or stonewalled by fellow officers in a series of stings, according to the federal monitor overseeing reforms after the Rampart corruption scandal.”

Once I called LAPD’s Southeast Division and asked the guy at the front desk for the number for Internal Affairs. I wrote down the number he gave me, but it didn’t work. When I later learned the correct number, I looked again at the number the desk officer had given me. He had transposed two of the digits.

Whoops!

CRUZ OR JOE?: It has already been noted that Mr. N-Word Cruz Bustamante looks just like character actor Jon Polito. But has anyone else noticed that he sounds like Joe Mantegna?

JUSTICE VS. WINNING: The New York Times runs a story titled Prosecutors Fight DNA Use for Exoneration. How embarrassing. It is true, as the prosecutors point out, that there may be cases where a defendant can obtain DNA results favorable to him, and still not be “exonerated” due to independent evidence of the defendant’s guilt. But to oppose the testing just doesn’t sit well. Prosecutors should allow any statutorily authorized testing to go forward without challenge. Fighting it just looks bad.