All in the aforementioned order:

• Disney Buys Pixar: I’m really hoping for the best on this deal. Hopefully, Pixar will be the swift kick that Disney needs to re-energize the company’s abandoned animation division. Lair Simon thinks otherwise.
• UPN and The WB Both Call It Quits: If you can’t beat the big four networks, merge into a new fifth network.
• Paramount Televison Gets Rebranded: First it was NBC Universal, now there’s CBS Paramount. Memo to Disney: Please don’t get any wild ideas.
• Kanye Doesn’t Care About Religious People: Glenn Reynolds wins the Quote-Of-The-Day Award:

If Kanye West had balls, he’d pose as Mohammed, instead of Jesus. But he doesn’t. Efforts to be controversial have become so predictable. Yawn.

Anything else interesting going on? Discuss.