PARTING SHOTS: The headstomper asks for an apology from the headstompee

Brett Michael Dykes
·National Affairs Reporter

Here's our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment:

• Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter who stomped on a MoveOn.org activist's head earlier in the week, would like an apology from the woman whose head he stomped on. (Talking Points Memo)

• A new study finds that one-fifth of Earth's vertebrate species are in danger of extinction. (BBC)

• A Florida woman who shook her baby because the three-month-old interrupted her game of Farmville on Facebook has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. (Florida Times-Union)

• Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's campaign threatened to sue a Delaware radio station for posting a video of an interview the station did with her online. (Gawker)

• Gulf Coast area hotels are continuing to suffer in the wake of the BP oil disaster. (Hotel News Now)

• Conan O'Brien is basically daring NBC to sue him for bringing characters and bits from his old shows on the network to his new one on TBS. (New York Post)