Here it is, amigos, or “friends”!

Ah, Peeps. These sweet, gooey Easter candies aren’t just for breakfast, lunch and dinner anymore.

The ''Five Years in Iraq'' cake: It cuts itself into different extremist factions, which then turn on each other in a savage bloodbath of icing.

Nevada Workers Against the War writes:

On March 22, 2008, for the first time in five years, local antiwar activists will gather on the Las Vegas Strip. With cries of “No More Endless War”, they’ll protest the Bush administration’s plans to attack Iran and occupy Iraq indefinitely. The protest will demonstrate that, even as the media becomes increasingly indifferent to the war, the people of Nevada are still deeply concerned about it.

What: Patriotic protest on the fifth anniversary of the war.

When: Saturday, March 22, 2008, at 1:00 pm

Where: Las Vegas Blvd. sidewalk, in front of the Venetian casino

Who: Nevada Workers Against the War, representing middle-class working families in Southern Nevada.

Since 2004, NWAW has demonstrated at government offices. This protest will target casino owner Sheldon Adelson, who funds a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign that promotes war in the Middle East, and insults those who oppose it. For more info, see www.lasvegasantiwar.org.

 

Now all it needs is diabolic self-awareness and it’s all over, people. Or maybe it’s just two conjoined Cirque performers sealed at the brow and fed a diet of Pop Rocks.

You don’t need an egg-headed study to tell you that Mainstream Media is in the toilet. Hell, turning on your television will show you that much. Gone are the days when a network anchor would deliver the world to your living room in 30 minutes or less. In 2008, you’re lucky to get 15 minutes of hard news before network and cable producers down shift into celebrity “scoops,” mindless entertainment dispatches or vapid “news you can use” segments.

Ironically — tragically — the 24-hour news cycle is now more likely to lull us to sleep than to call us to action. This ominous trend is only spreading.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism knows something really wrong is going on here. On Monday, it released its annual State of the News Media report, and boy, is it damning. According to the findings, the amount of celebrity coverage is up in cable TV news. So is sophomoric, sensational crime reporting (which monopolizes local newscasts here in Las Vegas). So is (and how ironic is this) spot reporting on how well/poorly the media is doing its job. Interestingly, total war coverage is down. In some cases, way down.

But no, you just have to watch ''Rock of Love,'' don't you?

If all of this gloom and doom is getting you down, check out the portion of the study that examines cable television. It’s good for a few belly laughs (or crying jags, depending on how you feel about the media in general). Hey, to pique your interest, we bet you can’t guess which cable news network is leading the entire pack of them straight down the toilet. Go ahead, guess!