Three Things on Tuesday

A very bad omen for the Chinese New Year.

Shepard Fairey strikes back at Associated Press (which says it owns the right to the photo he used for his Obama poster.)

And the strangest — arts-hating Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn has a daughter who just happens to be an opera singer. (Maybe we should check that Senate version of the stimulus bill — the one that now carries a Coburn-sponsored amendment to deny stimulus funding to museums and arts organizations — to see if there's an opera exemption.)