The Supreme Court of Georgia has dismissed a criminal case against a man who doesn't deny he texted an unwanted photo of his penis to a woman.

"Nobody's going to remember that he was a marginal singer, but they're going to remember a young kid who had a chance to have it all and who's blowing it by acting like a fool." - Perpetual fountain of wisdom Judge Judy on Justin Bieber.

Has the death of Harold Ramis left the world a less funny place? MSNBC's "Morning Joe" explored the issue this morning, as NBC News political director Chuck Todd led the show in a discussion of how grievously unfunny the New York Times obituary of Ramis was. Chuck Todd is an expert on what is and is not funny. Here, for devoted students of comic technique, is a transcript of Todd's remarks:

Great news if you can't grow a beard and have a few thousand dollars to spare: "Facial hair transplants" are reportedly on the rise in New York.

What's a great way to get, say, the CEO of a major fossil-fuel energy corporation like Exxon Mobil and, oh, a former House conservative tea party leader to oppose fracking? Do it next to their vast Texas estates, natch.

Red-tinted retail monster Target is having a hard time translating its popularity in the U.S. into foreign markets. Under the principle of kicking them while they're down, we now bring you this former Target manager's story of the "reprehensible" things he did in order to keep his job.

He's been so, so busy. Here's a roundup of his latest hijinks:

If you were curious about the practical implications of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act, signed yesterday by President Yoweri Museveni, look no further than its Red Pepper newspaper, which has published the identities of what it deems the country's "200 Top Homos" on its cover. If you thought the law banning gay sex would exist only in the realm of gay sex, you were wrong. This is a war on gay people.

[A North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative's hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Koreaon Tuesday. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea. Image via Yonhap, Lee Ji-eun/AP/KOREA OUT.]

The Turkish Prime Minister has accused his political rivals of hacking secure government communications networks to plant a fraudulent phone conversation during which he reportedly instructs his son to hide millions of Euros.

In case you missed it, Republican Louisiana Governor and NBC page Bobby Jindal unexpectedly sprang from the stage wings yesterday to step into conservatism's currently fashionable star role: the Righteously Indignant Douche-Canoe. As usual, he wasn't equal to the performance.

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan weighed in today on DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin’s unmasking of the titanically unfunny Twitter account @GSElevator, which purported to publish conversations overheard in the office elevators of investment bank Goldman Sachs. The bank was so concerned with account, Sullivan writes, that it banned talking in elevators:

This student group's trip to the Baja Peninsula took a turn for the getting-slapped-in-the-face-by-one-of-Earth's-largest-mammals when, "[U]nfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale's tail."

The California drought is killing all the almonds, causing prices to surge to record levels and sending major buyers scrambling across the globe for new sources of almond supplies. Damn. Almonds are good though.

A grandmother nearly ended up weeping into her Whopper after a Burger King employee called her and her daughter-in-law "bitch ass hoes" on a receipt.

Every day, social media editors around the world face difficult decisions. For example: does the guy who claims he burned his dick while fucking a pepperoni pizza deserve a response from your company's official Twitter account? For one social media person at Domino's, the choice was obvious.

The year 2013 may go down as the peak of the post-recession boom. The S&P 500 stock index rose by 30%, its best year since before the first tech bubble burst. And hey, home prices did better than they have since before the housing bubble burst. The top... or just another stair, to heaven?

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a National Rifle Association challenge to state laws that forbid under-21s from buying handguns. So there's that.

Writers are toddlers. We're pampered, we cry about everything and we like choo-choos. When some of us cried that we should get to ride and write on Amtrak for free, Amtrak said "Okay!" So, fine: Here are more corporations whose largesse could give writers time and space to practice the craft:

Welcome to the age of selfie-transmitted diseases.