City officials in San Diego, tired of drunk frat boys littering their pristine coast, in 2007 banned drinking on the beach. But there's a loophole: "If you're floating, you're good," according to police. So thousands get wasted on rafts, brah.

Sun Valley Idaho's star cop, a 5-year-old German shepherd named Dax, was suspended last month for attacking a small schnauzer. Police Chief Cameron Daggett said that after some time off duty, "Dax will be receiving more training."

Mississippi native Robert Dudley is expected to take over as BP's chief executive today. Good luck!

The Queen of England—well, technically, The British Monarchy—now has a Flickr account. (It's got photo sets organized by royal, in case there's one you're particularly interested in.) And, yes, there's a Twitter account too. Next up: hipstercorgis.tumblr.com. [Flickr]

[Russian Naval Infantry marines "perform" during the Navy Day parade in Sevastopol, Ukraine. "Perform," by, like, throwing knives all over the damn place, apparently. Pic via AP.]

Last week's killing of 17 people in northern Mexico was one of "several" carried out by inmates temporarily freed from prison using weapons on loan from prison guards. But the war on drugs should be over any day now. [LAT]

The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet tried to create a Facebook page for itself this weekend. Only, it wasn't able to do so—because Facebook won't let users create pages with the word "Palestinian" in the title.

To escape from being turned into a vampire and to free herself from a bed post, Tara gets insanely sexual on tonight's True Blood. When Franklin tells her to get even more kinky by biting his own flesh, she obliges.

Lindsay Lohan got a "secret" new tattoo of a little sleeping girl (she "liked the innocence," apparently) on her arm. Can you see it? It's like one of those Magic Eye things, but even less fulfilling. Click through for closeups.

Tonight's premiere of Mad Men certainly didn't disappoint, as we're introduced to the new reality of the show; Don as a divorcee and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce just scraping by. But the central question still remains: Who is Don Draper?

Who should be Tennessee's next governor? Why not this fellow? His name is Basil Marceax ("dot com") and if you vote for him he will "immune you from all state crimes for the rest of you life."

If you saw the season premiere of Mad Men, you probably saw commercials for AMC's not-Mad Men-like conspiracy thriller, Rubicon. While trying to secure some post-traumatic lovin', it's clear that Will Travers needs some lessons from Don Draper.

While the rest of the world was busy obsessing over the Mad Men premiere, tonight's episode of Entourage featured cameos by Shawne Merriman and a ping pong obsessed John Stamos. Some things never change!

After Kim learns that Scott parties all night when he's supposed to be "working," she tells Kourtney. Kourtney tries to defend Scott, and when Kim asserts that she's like a single mom, Kourtney blows up with anger at her family.

Despite conventional wisdom about high crime rates in hot months, New Yorkers are as likely to be victims of crime in October and December as in June and July. The takeaway: You could be murdered in literally any month. [WSJ]

Martin Scorsese, David LaChapelle, and a taxidermist discuss Caravaggio's influence on their work.

That nun you gave money to in Little Italy the other day? Turns out, she's not a nun. And not only is she not a nun, she's raising money for a notorious cultish church founded by a rapist and murderer.

On paper, Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch should be thrilling. Ochocinco is the ultimate NFL showman! However, this is why we play the games. While flying to Vegas with two suitresses, Chad makes the most of the trip by falling asleep.

"What it does is takes a bunch of New Yorkers—most of the people on Jersey Shore are New Yorkers... drops them at the Jersey Shore, and tries to make Americans feel like this is New Jersey," said Christie. "I can tell people, they want to know what New Jersey really is? I welcome them to come to New Jersey anytime." (Note that he probably didn't mean to make that last bit sound like a threat; that's just how people talk in New Jersey.)

It seems no one can do an impression like the iconic Robin WIlliams. Watch as the legendary comic does his best impersonation of the French people.