Summer bargain alert! Come Friday, you can treat yourself to 24,199 pages of electronic messages sent between Sarah Palin, her husband/snowmobile maintenance man, Todd, and various Alaska state officials, for the low, low price of $725.97. (Sorry, no Palin-to-English dictionary included.)
A Savannah, Georgia store owner survived a Sunday morning robbery attempt thanks to the hefty religious medallions he wore around his chest, which proved very useful in deflecting bullets.
It's been a tough year for world famous animals. Knut died. Ming Ming, the world's oldest panda, died, too. And Shrek, the New Zealand sheep that hid in a cave for six years to avoid his owner's shears, was was put down last weekend. When Shrek emerged from his cave in 2004 his fleece was finally clipped, producing almost 60 pounds of wool. He then set off on a nationwide tour that included a meeting with the prime minister.
On tonight's AC360, Anderson Cooper made Paris Hilton the subject of his "Ridiculist" segment, a recurring bit that serves as an outlet for Cooper's pent-up sass. The verbal smackdown consisted of Cooper mocking those who might be under the impression Paris has turned over a new leaf by playing clips from her new Oxygen reality show—clips that depicts her in the same dim green light in which we've always seen her. The highly amusing segment is above.
A San Diego man named Donny Love Sr. was convicted today in federal court for concocting a courthouse bombing plot that involved asking his "on-again, off-again" girlfriend to bomb the courthouse for him, then trying to turn her into the FBI. Donny Love, you know nothing about love.
Sarah Palin's got a friend in Stephen Colbert. On tonight's Report, Colbert did his best to back up Palin's much-maligned explanation of Paul Revere's midnight ride by encouraging viewers to edit the Wikipedia page for "Bell" in her favor after Revere's page was locked due to revision attempts by her supporters. Then, Colbert took things a step further and attempted to physically reenact the version of Revere's ride that Palin is still somehow defending. Video of the segment is above.
In May, Texas police responding to a traffic accident came upon a dying 59-year-old man behind the wheel of a pickup truck. Heavily tattooed, and carrying several contradictory identification cards, the driver had apparently swerved into a concrete barrier for some unknown reason; he died later that night, just as authorities realized who he was: Frank Roch, allegedly the "top general" of the "largest faction of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas."
Following Anthony Weiner's admission this afternoon that he posted a crotch shot to Twitter and was involved in "inappropriate" online relationships with several women, many wondered how Eliot Spitzer—no stranger to political sex scandals himself—would cover the topic on his CNN talk show, In The Arena.
Meet Lisa Weiss, Las Vegas blackjack dealer — and, apparently, phone-sex partner to Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner. Weiss, who came forward on Monday following Weiner's admission that he'd engaged in "inappropriate" online communication with "about six" women, is about to make the congressman's life even more difficult than it already is.
Summer's here, so it's time for some handy outdoors D.I.Y. projects. Like this delightful homemade "tank," one of "at least 100" built by Mexican drug cartels!
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to make sure Anthony Weiner didn't use any of your tax dollars to send pics of his dick to a half-dozen women over the years. She's calling for an Ethics Committee investigation into "whether any official resources were used or any other violation of House rules occurred." What, you didn't think we were done with Weinergate, did you?
