Jihad Jane had a friend. Meet Jihad Jamie, a 31-year-old Colorado mom named Jamie Paulin-Ramirez who is being held by police in Ireland for allegedly plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had depicted the Prophet Mohammed.

Today we watched a reporter get banned from a Sean Penn event for asking about his "die screaming of rectal cancer" quote. This brought two more Penn confessionals. (One from Ravi!) Plus, a taxi scam that only happens to drunks.

We're going to get big heads. First Rush Limbaugh unexpectedly says he loves us, now the New York Times' (excellent, not Rush Limbaugh-like at all) media columnist David Carr says we scoop him all the time. We'll take it, whether it's true or not.

[ On the set of 30 Rock, Tina Fey phones it in. And thus concludes the bad pun portion of our day. Image via INF ]

David Paterson: "Things started to go wrong the first day I was sworn in."

That's an actual Slate sub-headline. Before you dismiss, consider this: "The Dalai Lama is a professed tickler, often using it as a handshake substitute. (He even tickled Archbishop Desmond Tutu during a procession to distract him.)" Counterintuition saves Salty Sailor.

They say that all modern music can be attributed to Bach, specifically his 4-part chorals. If Bach is indeed the Godfather of music, on what day did he create this piece, and couldn't he have rested?

Computers can't read blogs because they don't understand stories. But those 'scientists' are teaching them, so eventually they can mine for immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see into our very souls. (For advertising purposes.)

In Leaves of Grass Edward Norton plays twins, one of whom deals pot. At last night's snack-accompanied SxSW screening, Edward's mellow went up in smoke when he thought he received a bill for his munchies. A witness writes in.

Anti-Scientology campaign group Anonymous, and some blogs, are airing accusations that Scientologist Kirstie Alley's new weight loss program, Organic Liaison, is based on quackery preached by L. Ron Hubbard, and that the company has links to the 'church'.

A young man's struggle with sexuality overtakes his life, driving him deep into his subconscious where guilt and fears of physicality chase him still further. Cornered by an intangible terror, he realizes he must either break out or break down.

Don Draper.

There's a myth Americans are dumb while Europeans read Kierkegaard from childhood. Except a survey in England found one in 20 kids think Luke Skywalker or Richard Branson were first on the moon and the Queen invented the telephone. [BBC]

Jessica Simpson refuses to call Billy Corgan her boyfriend, but "If I am going through a hard time I definitely would talk to Billy." She has fallen for the oldest romantic gambit in the book: the Sneaky Nice Guy Lover.

This Mr. Show sketch is slapstick perfection. It comes from season 4 and stars Jay Johnston, who you may recognize from The Sarah Silverman Program. Repetition is a pretty classic comedic device that when donewrong can be torturous.

A Washington Examiner reporter asked Sean Penn about his hope that critics "die screaming of rectal cancer" at an event honoring the stars's work in Haiti, and got kicked out. One more person for that fantasy rectal cancer list...

3 out of 4 New York cabbies have price gouged, a city investigation finds.

Stars on Ice denies it, but Johnny is so over them, anyway. He might even start a rival showcase, with Lady Gaga. It's cute how he thinks if he says her name enough, she'll pull a Tinkerbell and magically appear.

A wayward memo from Alpha Delta Phi's Cornell chapter reveals naked jogging, live animals, pornography, and a smoothie made from dog food, tabasco, and sour cream. Or, as it is known at Taco Bell, nachos grande.

The famed spirit exterminators Ray, Egon, Winston and Peter have been constant pop culture figures since their cinematic introduction in 1984. The Real Ghostbusters brought the crew to Saturday Morning with engaging scripts and the voice of Garfield.