Apparently retirement communities are fertile breeding grounds for mean old bullies, if this article out of Arizona is to be believed. Cliques of seniors (nothing ever changes, huh?) are mercilessly shunning and taunting old people who aren't cool.

Today we checked out the swanky new stucco digs — fresh out of the foreclosure mill — that college-bound Bristol Palin bought in Maricopa, Arizona. Our Arizona real estate experts then weighed in: Is Maricopa a "good" place to settle?

Bristol Palin's new home in Maricopa, Arizona's Cobblestone Farms subdivision has five bedrooms and a three-car garage. (The better not to contribute to the myth of global warming with.) Arizona really is a cursed state, isn't it?

After hearing about Jason Hope's "amazing, star-studded" $500,000 Christmas party, we declared him Party King of Scottsdale. But wait—isn't Dan Quayle's airhead sex blogger of a son from Scottsdale? Let's see what Ben's bros have to say.

Jason Hope is a Scottsdale, Arizona entrepreneur. He recently made headlines for throwing a $500,000 Christmas party featuring Ludacris ($100,000 performance fee) and Snooki ($17,500 appearance fee). Why would he do that? We asked his publicist.

When police in Arizona responded to a complaint of a man, "white and in his 50s" with his pants down and wiggling his hips in public, they found Michael Polley at his apartment door, still pantless and "immediately angry."

A nationwide shortage of key execution drug sodium thiopental has put several death row cases on hold this year. Documents show that California prison officials obtained some from Arizona, making them very happy: "You guys in AZ are life savers."

You know what should definitely be the last thing that states should ever cut from their budgets? Money for life-saving organ transplants. In Arizona, cuts to state medicaid have literally stolen organ transplants from sick poor people.

Even though Senate Republicans only banned earmarks in a non-binding caucus pledge, you'd think they could've waited longer than three days to break it, right? And yet here comes $200 million for you, Arizona, thanks to Sen. Jon Kyl!

Remember this summer's 'Honest Bum'? This homeless Arizona man found $3,000 in a backpack and returned it.

No longer content with the occasional on-screen cameo, television's "The Incredible Hulk" Lou Ferrigno has joined an armed posse of 55 volunteers in Arizona, led by racist Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to hunt down illegal immigrants in the desert.

A non-denominational Christian church under construction in Phoenix will have a dome. A dome on a church? To neighborhood residents, this doesn't add up. It must be a mosque, from which Islamic radicals will impose Sharia law on America.

A medical marijuana-legalizing ballot initiative passed by 4,341 votes in Arizona, allowing for the creation of up to 124 dispensaries that would sell weed to patients with "debilitating medical conditions," such as cancer, glaucoma, or living in Arizona.

Signs have been installed in the restrooms of the new City Hall in Chandler, Arizona warning residents not to drink the water from the urinals and the toilets. So, if you are passing through Chandler, consider yourself warned!

Newly emboldened Tea Party members in Fountain Hills, Arizona are strongly protesting their town council's decision to hire a single trash hauler and start a curbside pickup program for recycling, complaining that leaders are "taking a leap toward socialism." [via]

According to police in Surprise, Arizona, a 12-year-old boy threatened to stab his mother on Halloween after she refused to let him trick-or-treat in a "gay Justin Bieber" costume.

Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan by lethal injection yesterday even though the anaesthetic used may have been obtained illegally.

Everybody enjoys an exciting round of dominoes, and what better platform to use than good, old-fashioned books? Check out this cheery, book-friendly video from Arizona bookstore chain Bookmans. Who knew that real books could be cooler than eBooks?

Sarah Palin was in Phoenix for a Tea Party rally on Friday, where she had the wonderful opportunity to meet Maricopa County's legally questionable, self-promoting celebrity sheriff, Joe Arpaio. And apparently he gave her pink underwear.

The Obama administration deported a record 392,000 illegal immigrants in the past year. Take that, Arizona.