I fell back asleep this morning (following a fairly violent coughing fit) and didn’t start my day until 11:00. I called my doctor and got a 2:45 appointment. Minus an hour’s travel time, that gave me less than two hours to either write a blog entry or make two quiches.

I was told (I won’t name names) that they would only need 30 minutes in the oven. That turned out to be a lie (or an honest mistake), but make two quiches I did. Hmmmm. I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, I’m for gay marriage and I made two quiches today. I’m a unitard away from homosexuality (they all wear unitards, right?)!

Anyhoodles, it is now 5:00 and I have to get my prescription from the pharmacy and cook dinner, but I think I can squeeze you all in for a quick deconstruction of today’s Post.

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Besides the New Orleans Saints’ victory (they scored 31, just as I predicted, but Indy failed by 18 to match my prediction of 35), there’s a follow-up EXCLUSIVE on the company that “Governor” Paterson awarded the Aqueduct racino to — and it isn’t very pretty.

The Navegante Group (the gaming arm of AEG) operates seven casinos in Nevada, Wisconsin and Canada. They are all shitholes.

They also own three other properties in Elko, Nevada and they are in even worse shape. “[The carpeting] is stained and dirty, and they just laugh at me when I ask for it to be replaced,” claims Velma Cheety (tee-hee), the front-desk clerk at the Thunderbird Motel. “There’s a bullet hole in the window from five ears ago, and they won’t replace that, either.”

In a related story, “a source frequently in contact with Paterson” tells the Post, “He’s become paranoid. He sits, gnashing his teeth, looking around for scapegoats among the people around him. He’s lecturing them, launching into tirades, and he’s demoralized the entire staff in the process.” I somehow doubt he’s doing a lot of “looking around,”  but the rests sounds about right.

A “longtime Paterson friend” says, “He appears increasingly detached from reality, unaware that he has alienated everyone and has lost the political support he needs to survive.” I wish I had friends like that.

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The MTA pays the 130 employees at MTA Capital Construction $13,200,000.

Their job? “To make sure  contractors hit deadlines and don’t overspend.”

Second Avenue Subway: Slated for 2012, moved to 2015 in 2008. Moved again in 2009 to 2017. And the budget is now $4,800,000,000 ($500,000,000 more than the last increase).

Fulton Street Transit Center: Was 90% over budget in October 2009.

Thank God we have MTA Capital Construction on the case!

War criminals.

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Avatar is no longer the #1 movie in America (it’s now #2). With a $32,500,000 opening weekend, Dear John has that honor.

From Paris With Love is third. Edge of Darkness and The Tooth Fairy are fourth and fifth, (dis)respectfully. My country has no taste.

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Did they tone down the Tim Tebow Focus on the Family commercial(s)?

Is that the same thing as apologizing, CBS?

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The Post gets around to covering Sarah Palin’s “palm-prompter,” though there’s no condescension or animosity.

“It would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to serve our country,” the idiot told some other idiots with regards to running for POTUS in 2012. If that sentiment is sincere, I recommend suicide, you betcha. But this is my favorite quote from Palin’s handy helper: “Asked if she knows more today about domestic and foreign affairs than she did two years ago, Palin said, ‘Well, I would hope so.’”

She is infuriatingly stupid.

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God needs some target practice.

He blew up a power plant in Connecticut, but we all know he was aiming for Lieberman.

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The cast of Jersey Shore is being paid $180,000 each for Season Two.

(yells at miniature American flag)

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The director of Shadowboxer will forever be known as Academy Award Nominee Lee Daniels (for the astonishingly poorly directed Precious).

(continues yelling at miniature American flag)

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The Stage Deli is naming sandwiches after Snooki and The Situation.

Why do I think that people who are willing to pay $25 for a sandwich probably don’t watch Jersey Shore?

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Cindy Adams believes that Obama will put Biden on the Supreme Court and run in 2012 on an Obama/Clinton ticket.

I wish she would die already.

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State Senator Ruben Diaz and Andrea Peyser are two people I loathe, but I can’t argue with their vitriol against the rubber rooms at the DOE.

Strange bedfellows and all that.

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And speaking of Mandrea, her piece on rubber rooms is titled Bounce rubber flubbers and it rests atop a large photo of Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’Nique in Precious. The photo blongs to ONE OF H’WOOD’S ‘PRECIOUS’ FEW, but it’s a funny juxtaposition.

The ‘PRECIOUS’ piece offers this odd take: “You don’t normally see movies coming out of the leftist land that deftly skewer the unglamorous culture of welfare dependency. But while studio heads were sleeping, Tinseltown produced Precious.”

No, it didn’t. Lee Daniels did. In Philadelphia.

I dislike you so much, Mandrea.

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The 19-year-old in Australia who auctioned off her virginity has accepted a bid of just over $32,000, which she called “way beyond what I dreamed.”

Does “dream” mean something different in Australian?

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Dr. Paul Dobransky has seven dating tips for single folks.

#2: Pay attention to “submission signals” — like a head tilt or a relaxed jaw — to figure out whether people are attracted to you.

Um… what?

According to the “doctor,” a tilted head exposes the jugular vein. “She’s saying, ‘I’m exposing my most vulnerable area. I’m trusting you with my safety.’”

Also, what does an unrelaxed jaw look like?

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The top three “NY Post hot topics” are 1. Scott Brown, 2. Rachel Uchitel and 3. Derek Jeter for some reason.

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Fun fact: Two of the Nets collided during Saturday’s 46th loss of the season. Devin Harris got a mild left shoulder sprain (“Devin was sore”) and Jarvis Hayes got a left shin bruise (“he could barely walk”).

The Quest For Five Wins continues.

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Parking for yesterday’s Super Bowl? $75.00.

But that came with flood insurance.

(Too soon?)

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Jeanine Pirro has a TV show (Judge Pirro).

Rodney King is suing his ex-friend for not repaying a $4,500 loan. Naturally, he decided to do it on the TV.

He’ll be on tomorrow’s episode.

$20 says Pirro asks the plaintiff and defendant “can’t we all just get along.”

Double or nothing says the gallery doesn’t laugh very hard.

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Time to cook. See you tomorrow morning.