Jonathan May-Bowles—a.k.a. "Jonnie Marbles"—was sentenced to six weeks in jail today for hurling a shaving-cream pie at Rupert Murdoch during his testimony before Parliament last month. When you get out, Jonnie, Wendi's gonna find you.

Yesterday, we published an item based on a former Newt Gingrich staffer's claim that Gingrich assembled his 1.3 million Twitter followers—a number that he's taken to bragging about—in part by buying fake Twitter followers. A lot of people did not think that was true! But today social networking search firm PeekYou announced that it had crunched the data and come to the conclusion that roughly 106,055 of Gingrich's million-plus followers are real people. The rest are fakes.

The Senate has passed the debt ceiling deal, 74-26, sending it to President Obama's desk. Crisis averted! Now, thanks to the deal's structure, we can look forward to a prolonged 18-month budget battle and massive lobbying campaign.

Since Congress is preparing to head into its August recess just as soon as this debt ceiling deal wraps up, how are we, the political news consumers, going to get our kicks for the next month? Hmm. Eh, what the hell, let's start talking about the "Ground Zero" "Mosque" again.

Police in London today arrested a "key figure" in connection with Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking fiasco, and the Guardian confirms that it is former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner who is in police custody.

The Daily Mail has a story today that will change your perception of the stuffy old Tower of London forever. Major General Keith Cima, who was fired as governor of the Tower in December, is blowing the lid off a sophicticated ring of Beefeaters who grow weed and rent Tower rooms out to "young female tourists." They also incessantly harassed the first ever female Beefeater, Moira Cameron. In a statement to the London Central Employment Tribunal, Cima had this to say about the place while he was in charge:

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal just couldn't stand being the 26th richest man in the world while Dubai had the world's tallest penis tower, the Burj Khalifa, which was renamed after a measly president, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE. So, in honor of his manhood, the prince is building a bigger tower.

Joe Biden supposedly told House Democrats today that Republicans acted like "terrorists" during the debt ceiling debate. To be fair, he was only agreeing with another congressman. But if he did say it, he deserves a standing ovation.

Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik apparently told a school friend that he'd had nose and chin jobs performed in America years ago. Norway's intel chief Janne Kristiansen took notice, saying, "He has the perfect, classic Aryan face."

Foxconn Technology Group — the company that assembles iPads and iPhones in hellish Chinese factories that have had at least 13 workers commit suicide — might have found a solution to its disgruntled worker problem. Over the next three years, the company will increase the number of robots on factory assembly lines from about 10,000 to 1 million. One analyst told Reuters, "Rising salary costs should be the key reason why Foxconn is doing this."

The Libyan government under Muammar Qaddafi sent some feelers out last month to New York and London p.r. firms who might help to "present our just and fair case to the world." The pitch, emailed around by Tripoli's Peoples Media Center, is "very unorthodox" according to the world's most morally-sound superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian of 5WPR, who spoke with the Post. In fact, it's so bad that Torossian wouldn't even touch this pitch with your firm: "I highly doubt any p.r. firm will positively respond to this request."

Starting today, New Yorkers with Time Warner and Verizon FiOS cable can watch Al Jazeera English for 23 hours a day through a subletting deal the channel reached with a suburban New York channel, RISE. [NYT]

Every day, celebrities across the world are followed and photographed by the omnipresent paparazzi, often to entertaining results. From the Kardashians in Los Angeles to Joe Jonas in Paris to Hugh Jackman in St. Tropez, here are some of the more amusing shots from the past week.

If Hilton hotel guest Rodney Harmon had known that the USA Today left by hotel staff outside his door wasn't free, he wouldn't have read it. But he did read it, and the hotel charged him the 75-cent fee, so now Harmon's suing Hilton hotels in federal court.

If we didn't attend the week-long Burning Man festival in Nevada every year, we probably wouldn't be the deeply spiritual, open-minded individual that we are today. We'd just be another emotional eunuch living in America, ignorant in the ways of radical self-expression. Sadly, we and our collection of fruit-flavored body paints and hovercrafts won't be able to go hang out on the Black Rock City playa this year, because last week festival tickets completely sold out for the first time in its 25-year history.

You know who's terrible? Congressman Andy Harris, of Maryland, is terrible. Here's why!

President Obama's approval rating in Gallup's three-day rolling average has fallen to 40%, an all-time low for him. The American public can stomach many things, but interrupting The Bachelorette is not one of them.

You probably think that you're a savvy viewer who watches a lot of reality television programs and knows what's real and what's "reality," right? Well, according to a new book from one of the people behind the camera, even the simplest tricks are enough to fool the audience.

Looking across the vast debt ceiling hellscape today, it appears that Speaker John Boehner will finally, finally get House Republicans to pass his two-tiered debt limit hike by tossing in modest balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution. Let's just say that that doesn't improve the chances of getting out of this pickle with a bipartisan solution, with only four days remaining. What is to be done, instead? Just have Timmy Geithner mint a trillion dollar coin, obviously.

At some point, maybe Speaker John Boehner will become good at his job and round up enough House Republicans to pass his go-nowhere debt ceiling bill. Maybe. Because Congress has other, much more important business to attend to this afternoon, like signing up for a football game.