Gov. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email account has been hacked.
The only scandal here is that she uses freakin’ Yahoo to do her emails.

Italian comedienne Sabina Guzzanti faces prosecution for insulting the Pope, an offense that carries a prison sentence of up to five years. She is accused of “offending the honor of the sacred and inviolable person” of Pope Benedict XVI at a rally in Rome in July at which opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of passing ad personam laws to protect his own interests and avoid prosecution for alleged corruption.

The woman who calls herself Lorraine has decided to find out exactly what is going on inside the Anthony home by looking through their garbage.

Caylee Anthony case: solved! We can all sleep easy now.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleads guilty and steps down as mayor! With Video!

After an extraordinary day that saw him plead guilty to two felonies, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spoke for the first time publicly this evening. Telling Detroiters “I’ve always said that you need to stand strong for the City of Detroit…but sometimes standing strong means stepping down,” Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick delivered a televised speech that was part-apology, part campaign speech.
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Jonathan Lee Riches is a real piece of work. The first thing you should know about Riches is that he’s currently serving time at the Federal Correctional Institution Williamsburg in Salters, South Carolina, for wire fraud.

So what does Riches do to pass the time in prison? Well, some prisoners read, others lift weights, etc… Riches likes to file lawsuits. In fact, he has filed over one thousand lawsuits in federal district courts across the country.

And he has sued just about everyone and everything.

Hundreds of microcephalics - people born with small skulls and protruding noses and ears because of a genetic mutation - can be found on the streets of Gujrat, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Called the “rat children”, they are sold by their families to begging mafias, who exploit a tradition that they are sacred offerings to Shah Daula, the shrine’s 17th century Sufi saint.

Elmer McCurdy was not a very good outlaw. When it came to being a bandit, he just didn’t have the goods. For example, in the late 1800s, when trying to rob a train for thousands of dollars in government tribal payments, he ended up robbing a passenger train instead, taking away 46 dollars and some booze. A short time later, he took a bullet to the chest and died. But that’s when his career really took off!

Screaming passengers fled in terror from a Greyhound bus as an unidentified fellow passenger suddenly stabbed a man sleeping next to him, decapitated him and waved the severed head at horrified witnesses standing outside. Victim identified as 22 year old Tim McLean from Winnipeg.

Source: NYT
It was one of the worst sweatshops that state inspectors have visited in years, they said, sometimes requiring its 100 employees to work seven days a week, sometimes for months in a row.

Location of Jin Shun factory? (guessed from Google Map, Street View)
The factory, Jin Shun, located in Queens, handed out instructions to its [...]

Via Smoking Gun:
Comedian Andy Dick was arrested Wednesday morning by California cops on drug and sexual battery charges. Dick, 42, was nabbed around 2 AM in a Riverside County parking lot after he allegedly groped the breasts of a 17-year-old girl and then pulled the teen’s tank top and bra down, exposing her breasts (the [...]