Sentences for misdemeanors like smoking weed or sneaking onto the subway usually don't come with any jail time. They don't have to. In NYC, a huge number of misdemeanor arrestees languish in jail for weeks, unable to afford bail.

The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in November. Pray harder this month.

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

Shortly after Britain announced cuts in Royal Navy funding, more oil was found off the Falkland Islands. Oops!

Just last week, a man was found murdered inside his condo in the creepy Disney town, Celebration, Florida. Then early this morning, after shooting at deputies and barricading himself inside his Disney condo, 52-year-old Craig Foushee killed himself. Damn.

Crooked old Charlie Rangel was censured by his colleagues yesterday, which is pretty embarrassing and whatnot. But say Rangel steps down. Who will replace him? The Daily News hears "speculation" that equally-crooked Governor David Paterson could take over. Great idea!

'Pigeon King' Arlan Galbraith was charged yesterday in Canada for allegedly running a pigeon breeding ponzi scheme through his company, Pigeon King International, and defrauding investors out of $1 million by promising enormous returns from pigeon meat sales. [CBC]

[A baby giant panda born Nov. 3, has a check up at Zoo Atlanta. Photo via AP.]

Attention, eligible bachelors: Actress Winona Ryder is looking for a husband. "I gotta bag me a husband!" she told Us Weekly, as a way of explaining her residence in San Francisco. So if you want to marry her, move there!

Chili farmer Gerald Fowler, who is, inexplicably, English, has grown the hottest chili pepper in the world: The Naga Viper, which, at 1,359,000 on the heat-measuring Scoville scale, is 270 times hotter than a jalapeño.

Look how far we've come Sunny fans. Instead of skulking around outside of the ballpark in Philadelphia and being forced to pronounce the Phanatic as the "Phrenetic", the city's two non-Michael Vick heroes show up for a sweet montage.

The House of Representatives has passed a bill mandating lower volumes for TV commercials. Activist government!

Eliseuson, of course, doesn't see what's wrong with his snowman at all! "It's just a snowman," he says. Totally! Just one of those great small-town snow-sculpture tributes to the classic SNL skit "Coneheads" that also makes a powerful statement about suicide by hanging.

After getting dropped by Amazon's web hosting service yesterday, Wikileak was booted today from its Domain Name Service provider. Now Wikileaks is down again, and effectively homeless.

Jon Stewart tread on familiar ground tonight, lambasting Senator John McCain for continuing his backpedaling and doublespeak on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Curiously, though, it was Joe Lieberman who got a tip of the hat. Watch inside.

Government shutdown: averted until December 18th. Go, democracy! Go! Go! Go!

This week on Grey's Anatomy it looked like Cristina Yang might finally be on the road to recovery. Meredith Grey has an all-out war of words with Owen. And Callie does to Arizona what we've wanted to do all season.

[Paris Hilton walks with her dog in Bel Air. Image via Splash]

Tonight's Office showed us that though Dwight is now a two-time property owner, he's nonetheless vigilant about being able to drink a cup of coffee with his feet. Hope for him to succeed in this clip.

You know what should definitely be the last thing that states should ever cut from their budgets? Money for life-saving organ transplants. In Arizona, cuts to state medicaid have literally stolen organ transplants from sick poor people.