Is there any more reliably ridiculous demographic than "Manhattan heiress?" They have so much money they can bribe the whole world into dealing with their zany neuroses. Here's one woman, Dana Hammond, who is irrationally afraid of HIV.

Alvin Greene v. Jim DeMint for South Carolina Senate is on. SC Dems' executive committee has voted to uphold the unemployed 32 year-old veteran's primary victory because they can't prove any shenanigans. Can't wait for the first campaign ad! [AP]

While he may host a popular game show for his day job, Ben Bailey is also a longtime stand-up. Here, he discusses how people approach him about his other gig.

Cablevision is said to have finally abandoned its acquisition of city-blog shop Gothamist. Entertainingly enough, Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin can reportedly blame his big mouth for scotching the deal.

Oregon second-grader Kyron Horman vanished without a trace from his Portland elementary school nearly two weeks ago. Now the investigation has begun to focus on his stepmother, and her trip to a nearby island on the day of Horman's disappearance.

Former New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson launched their online magazine in beta form today. It seems to have lived up to its advance billing as a sort of Politico-meets-Salon-meets-Observer.

Today on Fox Business News, Sarah Palin endorsed deemphasizing marijuana law enforcement! Obviously this means she's a huge stoner, right?

The Projects are not the greatest places to live. Now, thanks to Manhattan-based perfume company International Flavors & Fragrances, they are much worse: The company is flooding a South Bronx public housing project with perfume. To make residents happy!

Peter Thiel, Facebook's first outside investor, is moving his volatile hedge fund back to California. Clarium Capital moved to New York in its boom days of fall 2008; a humble return to Silicon Valley may help break the resulting jinx.

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[My imaginary boyfriend Prince Harry (right) spins his arms around while dancing with his brother Prince William and local Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, where they entertained a group of children affected by HIV. Image via Getty]

Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad has been charged with 10 terrorism and weapons counts.

Has the world's most famous polar bear gone the way of Britney Spears, a mentally-addled trainwreck of an aging child star? Berlin Zoo's Knut "suffers from panic attacks and 'sways to and fro' in an abnormal manner," says one scientist.

The nonstandard spelling of the Freddie in Freddie Mac confuses many, but Glenn Beck has a reason behind such misspellings. According to Glenn, using a Y is the way boys spell.

Today we looked at Massachusetts senator Scott Brown's Fourth of July essay contest, for which he's charging $50 per entry. We're not sure what Brown's tastes are, but we think one commenter has it locked up.

MySpace co-president Jason Hirschhorn is reportedly out at the News Corp. subsidiary after 16 months. In the same timeframe, his ailing social network lost its founder, its CEO, an incubator — and a whole lot of traffic.

Your daily look into the twitterific lives of our favorite celebs.

South Carolina Democrats are meeting now to consider overturning Alvin Greene's Senate primary win.

The entitled dummies from You're Cut Off were made to clean Omarosa's house for some reason. You'll never believe this fight that the producers probably suggested they have.

You're curious about Real Housewife Danielle Staub's sex tape. But you don't want to buy it or watch her have sex. So we scrubbed the 90-minute Danielle Staub Raw clean of anything untoward. Now all that's left is the crazy!