China is like some crazy backwards Opposite Wonderland! There are so many more men looking to get married than there are eligible women that overenthusiastic dudes are constantly getting scammed out of their "bride prices." Nevada has a solution!

A bloodbath at Jared Kushner's New York Observer is unfolding this afternoon. Gawker has the details. [Gawker]

Rush Limbaugh unleashed an exquisite blast of paranoia on Sean Hannity's show last night, predicting that newspapers, television networks, and radio networks will all go bankrupt (true), at which point Obama will personally take them over (crazy).

Plenty of reality programs promise to show us how the rich and powerful live their lives. Very few actually end up doing that, of course. The women featured on the Real Housewives of NYC weren't part of the city's social elite before they humiliated themselves on national television—nor were they all housewives either—so they had little to lose in the end. That will change, though, when Bravo's NYC Prep, or the "real-life Gossip Girl," as Bravo has been billing it, debuts on June 23. One of the obnoxious, over-privileged teens featured on the show—the one who comes off in the worst possible light, in fact—hails from one of the city's richest and most respected families. Meet Peter Carey ("PC") Peterson, the grandson of Pete Peterson.

Here is author Elie Wiesel, speaking at Buchenwald, where he was once imprisoned, and where his father died. Wiesel toured Buchenwald with President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Let's hope people pay attention.

A balloongram for John Gotti, and an afternoon with Dan Quayle. Courtesy of Kurt Andersen.

Quentin Tarantino, Michael Madsen, and Rob Schneider went on Larry King last night to remember their friend David Carradine. They said he would never commit suicide. So, Larry asked, what's the deal with the rope? Awkward silence.

Gregory Coleman was hired in February to run AOL advertising network Platform A. Two weeks later, the CEO who hired him was out; two months after that, Coleman's own departure was announced. But at least AOL made it worth his while.

Why did Starbucks decide to sponsor MSNBC's Morning Joe? To "promote its ethical commitments." Whatever that bullshit means. One human-like online Starbucks advocate supports them strongly!:

Frey is gunning for a promotion from Gawker intern to Gawker special correspondent and will be filing his own take on the run-in. Kade, however, seems a bit more familiar with Internet speed than our intern and, has already weighed in via his blog:

Cat's outta the bag! Well, the cat was already out of the bag, thank you very much, Lady Alaska, but now it's official. Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting The Colbert Report from Camp Victory in Baghdad next week. [NYT]

Mobbed-up former Top Cop Bernie Kerik pleaded not guilty yesterday to his new DC charges, which are similar to his old New York charges. And then he Tweeted about it, because he does not have very good legal counsel.

I don't know. A show about the importance of marriage will soon be upon us, and it will educate us about the sanctity of blessed holy matrimony.

The government just released the latest US unemployment figures: 345,000 jobs lost in May, bringing the national unemployment rate to 9.4%. Is that good, or bad? Yes.

James Gandolfini walking around the West Village ... Jessica Biel carrying a Theory shopping bag downtown ... Anderson Cooper leaving a taping of Live With Regis And Kelly at ABC studios ... Isabella Rossellini walking in Soho ... New Jersey "Housewife" Danielle Staub arriving at Fox Studios ... Blake Lively and Penn Badgley going to dinner at Five Points with Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn ... David Blaine and fiancé Alizee Guinochet shopping for furniture ... Meryl Streep filming scenes for her new movie in midtown ... Joel Schumacher walking in the Village ... Matthew Broderick riding a scooter in the West Village with son James ... Mandy Moore leaving a party for her new album ... Claire Danes walking in Soho ... Nicole Kidman shooting scenes for Rabbit Hole in Queens ... and Paris Hilton leaving her hotel.

Earlier this week, we claimed some moron blogger was the first racist to publicly call Sonia Sotomayor "J-Lo" for no reason other than her ethnicity. We were incorrect.

[Kirsten Dunst on her way to Whole Foods in the East Village; image via INF]

Microsoft's new search-dealie "Bing" is going up against The Google, which is hard! Fortunately, Bing's marketing wizards have devised the world's most annoying ways to promote it. (*Bing* sound)!

This isn't shaping up to be a good day for Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit. Sheila Bair, the chair of the FDIC, is now looking to change up the bank's management team, per today's Wall Street Journal, and has even reached out someone else—Jerry Grundhofer, the former CEO of U.S. Bancorp—to "gauge his interest" in the top job. No word on how likely this scenario is. But if Vikram really unleashed an "obscenity-laced tirade about the FDIC chairman" last fall when Citigroup lost out in its bid to acquire Wachovia—as the Journal recounts—it's safe to say his neighbors got an earful this morning when he picked up the copy of the Journal on his doorstep. [WSJ]

So apparently Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have a frosty relationship, because Obama doesn't rub her back all the time or what-have-you. And that is why Obama went to Dresden, to "snub" Merkel, and to apologize for World War II.