With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we decided to school ourselves in love -- by visiting a first-grade classroom. A couple of hours with the students of Miss Ridgway and Mrs. Vacchiano at Tyler Run Elementary School in Powell served as a reminder that affectcion, at its purest, is simple, innocent and certainly humorous.

Britney Spears is defending driving with her infant son on her lap, saying she was dodging paparazzi.

We thought we had weird thoughts -- until we found a Web site that solicits oddball ruminations.

"I'm sick and tired of people with 'normal' jobs thinking I'm lazy because I'm self-employed.

"I threw that man through a window seven times, and he landed on his head, got up, rebuilt the window with the crew and then got thrown through it again."

-- Paul Bettany

on his tough-as-nails Firewall co-star, Harrison Ford

74 | John Williams, composer and conductor

66 | Ted Koppel, former ABC News anchorman

65 | Nick Nolte, actor (Cape Fear)

Opportunities in toilet paper: • The Rev. Rick Oliver of the First Church of God in Pendleton, Ore., decided in the fall that the church's new fund-raising campaign would involve sales of toilet paper, specifically the brand Angel Soft.