Republican State Rep. Kim Meltzer thinks cops need more authority, especially when it comes to busting illegals in her state, so she's drafting a bill like Arizona's to clean Michigan up a little. [Detroit Free Press, pic]

One Columbia senior wanted to know how his fellow students were able to get so high, yet still do well on exams. So he went straight to the source: the school library. It's "study drug time"!

The BP oil spill is spread across an estimated 2,500 square miles, and is dumping at least 200,000 gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico every day. What would that look like in New York?

Andy Rooney took to the 60 Minutes airwaves Sunday night to let the whole world know: He has no clue who Lady Gaga is. But don't worry! He still likes ice cream. Click through for glorious video.

[What fuel powers the extraordinary dancing prowess of CBS anchor Katie Couric? Momofuku Noodle Bar, of course. We bet she got the chilled spicy noodles, because they, like her, have an icy exterior belying a fire within.]

Hello. I'm Max Read and I am going to be hanging out here for a while blogging about things, at night.

Babies! They're not just for throwing up on themselves and starring in movies. According to a group of British psychologists, six-month-old babies can tell the difference between good and evil. This is the dumbest thing we've ever heard.

Lena Horne, the jazz singer and Broadway star, died in New York on Sunday. Horne was among the first black singers to cross over to white audiences or lead a white band, and later became a prominent civil rights activist.

Uh-oh: Politics happened! President Obama has chosen Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be his nominee for the Supreme Court spot recently vacated by Justice Stevens. Now you have to have an opinion about her. We can help with that!

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Pentagon is using a "number of unorthodox approaches" to treat post-traumatic stress, "including aromatherapy, acupuncture, stuff like that." We have a copy of Pure Moods, if the Army wants it. [Reuters]

[Two agricultural specialist agents from Customs and Border Protection inspected roses in advance of Mother's Day, which is surpassed only by Valentine's Day in the amount of money wasted on pretty plants. Pic via Getty]

NBC is reporting that Elena Kagan is Obama's nominee for the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy.

President Obama gave the commencement address at Hampton University on Sunday, encouraging the graduates of the historically-black school to close the achievement gap between African-American and Latino students and their white classmates. More importantly, he dissed the iPad.

A man with an electrical circuit in his shoes has been arrested at Karachi Airport.

The State veteran Michael Ian Black offers some advice on how to make your friends uncomfortable.

Were there enough "holy shit" packed into one episode for you last week? The episode kicked off with Creepy Cartel Jefe confessing his distaste for "the Chicken Man" (read: Gus) and then nonchalantly drowning a nine-year-old.

Smoking cigarettes may improve your memory, fine motor skills, alertness, and, obviously, looking-cool-ness. They will also give you cancer and make all your food taste like charcoal briquettes. But, again: You will improve your memory, and look totally cool. [Discovery]

The Times has an article today about how young people are realizing they look like idiots on Facebook and are taking increased steps to protect their privacy online. But old people don't understand how to work the damn privacy machines.

Why can't everyone just be nice? Three men in New Mexico are facing hate charges for bundling a mentally challenged 22-year-old into a car, and then branding a swastika into his arm with a bent and heated wire coathanger.

Each year, around this time, dozens of celebrities fan out across America and descend on college towns in the middle of nowhere to deliver the same tired cliches to a group of hungover college students. Who are these people?