Sen. John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a senior McCain campaign official told CNN on Friday. We have a list of a few things you may not know about Sarah Palin (and some cute photos of her too). Click for more…

NYTimes:

Is it safe?
After spending $5 million on its five automated public toilets, Seattle is shutting them down. Installed in 2004, the restrooms have become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city’s most destitute people refused to step inside them.
The units were [...]

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 [...]

It’s a weird, wacky world out there!
Take Holland - they have instituted a tobacco ban on restaurants and cafes. Big deal, you say. Everybody is doing that. Yeah, but does everybody allow you to smoke weed in those same restaurants and cafes? Well, Holland does!
From the UK Telegraph comes this story:
Smoking tobacco in restaurants and [...]

Here’s something from the LA Times:
“They sell Bud. We sell Weed,” he said. “What’s the difference?”
The Place: WEED, CALIFORNIA
The federal government is telling the owner of a small brewery here that the pun he’s placed on caps of his Weed Ales crosses a line. “Try Legal Weed,” the caps joke.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and [...]

And now, the Courtney Love news roundup:
Love Was Advised To Abort Frances Bean
Source: Warner Bros Records boss Danny Goldberg
Goldberg, who managed Nirvana at the time, writes:
“‘You’re not telling me to have a [bleep]-ing abortion, are you?’ asked Courtney, her voice rising with her trademark hostile whine. ‘I mean I’m pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean [...]

Spitzer is back in the news. Apparently, he has been linked to another prostitution ring called Wicked Models. And another girl named “Kristen”.

Kristen Davis
According to the New York Post:
The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a year-long prostitution investigation.

At the center [...]

Suicidal pets get anti-depressants
Pets at risk of self-harm are increasingly being prescribed anti-depressants because they cannot discuss problems in their lives with others, a leading veterinarian says.
Zoo and wildlife medicine specialist with the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Romain Pizzi, told the Telegraph that more pets were being prescribed Prozac. Tropical birds such as [...]

Barack Obama at the Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas:

Bush won’t be on the ballot!
WHOOOOOOO
Cheney won’t be on the ballot!
WHOOOOOOO
Look at those people. This wasn’t a rally, it was a Beatles concert.
From The Swamp: Even blowing his nose, Obama gets applause
And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to [...]

New York Magazine, that is.
Attempting to recreate Marilyn Monroe (wow, that’s original!), Lohan has a few things to say about drugs and the industry:
Lohan called Monroe’s suicide “tragic,” and then added, elliptically, “You know, it’s also tragic what just recently happened to someone else.” I asked whether she was referring to Heath Ledger. She nodded: [...]