A bedbug-sniffing dog has found the presence of bedbugs at the United Nations building. Shoot, the bedbugs have basically a freeway to the White House now! This must be Ahmadinejad's doing. We give Iran backpackers, and they give us bedbugs?

— A pick-up line The Situation supposedly used on Annabelle DeSisto, the young lady seen rejecting him and calling him an "old man" on the second season of "Jersey Shore." [Image via Getty]

Think Christine O'Donnell's Delaware Senate campaign is scared of the media amplifying her every word for delicious mockery? Because apparently her campaign manager threatened to "crush" a Delaware radio station in court if they, uh, posted an interview tape online.

Following in the footsteps of Carl Paladino's probably unhelpful stink-bomb mailer to his constituents, another campaign, that of California congressional candidate Van Tran, has sent out a stinky scratch-and-sniff mailer. And, when engaged, it smells like absolute shit.

In your head-scratching Wednesday media column: Barry Diller's wacky plan for The Daily Beast, Conde Nast advertising shakeup, Shep Smith stays on at Fox News, and Juan Williams fans continue to provide comic relief.

Rudy Giuliani, a snarling monster who was nationally popular for a year or so following 9/11, says that "the door's not closed" on him running for president again in 2012. So can someone please close this door, locking him inside?

The biggest real estate deal boondoggle ever — a $5.4 billion scheme to rip renters off in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village — ended yesterday when lenders took control of the 4,300-unit property. Nice try! [NYT; NYO]

Girls Gone Wild founder and certified douchebag Joe Francis is currently being sued by four women who say Francis coerced them into appearing in his X-rated films when they were underage. Well, that's now a free speech battle. How respectable!

Charlie Sheen was discovered at the Plaza Hotel this morning naked, drunk, and in a trashed hotel suite with a "damaged" chandelier. (Swinging from the ceiling?) Hospitalized with ex-wife Denise Richards by his side, Charlie said he'd been "out partying."

The most recognizable (and best spectacled) member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, ex-foreign minister Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court today for "eliminating Islamic parties" during Hussein's rule. Aziz knew he was doomed. [Al Jazeera]

Who: A fixture on the New York social scene, Palermo is best known for her role alongside Whitney Port on the now-canceled MTV reality show The City.

Asked by CNN about his company photographing people's homes for its "Street View" feature, Eric Schmidt said, "we drive exactly once. So you can just move, right?" When will Google's CEO stop saying frightening things awkwardly?

Lyss Stern is a "mommy blogger" and founder of mom-centric events company Divalysscious Moms. With those journalistic credentials, you may be shocked to learn she's accused of trying to trade a "puff piece" for $45,000 in dental work.

According to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, "The single most important thing that we," the Republicans hoping to retake Congress, "want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." Mitch! You're supposed to say "fix the economy."

Whitney Port commented on the fate of her faux-show The City today: "As of right now it doesn't really look like we're doing it anymore." MTV's previously denied cancellation rumors. If they kill it, can we still hate Olivia Palermo?

A spot of hope for a nation of traumatized hairdressers: "I was thinking about shaving it off or changing it," Justin Bieber says of his hair. "But I know now isn't the right time. Maybe [for my] next album."

The search for Chhewang Nima, a Nepalese sherpa famous for climbing Mt. Everest 19 times, was called off today on Mt. Baruntse in the Himalayas. Nima was caught in an avalanche on Saturday and hasn't been seen since.

Who: Possibly the most famous—and most overexposed—chef in New York, Batali is the carrot-topped maestro of Italian cuisine behind such eateries as Babbo, Lupa, Esca, Otto, and Del Posto. His most recent venture is Eataly, the massive Italian food marketplace that opened in August 2010.

According to a new report, oil giant BP spent some $18,000 on the campaigns of climate legislation-blocking senators like James Inhofe. But don't worry! They also spent $7,000 on non-climate-legislation-blocking senators. So, they own almost everyone.

[An unimpressed woman looks at a man in zombie garb during the Sydney Zombie Walk today in Australia. Image via Getty]