Two British men today face sentencing for running an illegal DIY online sperm bank out of a home basement, after a woman filed a complaint over receiving a supposedly anonymous donors full name along with a syringe of his sperm.

Who: Formerly the perky co-host of Today, Couric is now the much less perky anchor of the CBS Evening News, the last-place evening newscast.

[Barack Obama catches one of the students featured in the documentary "Waiting for 'Superman'" making himself at home in the Oval Office before their presidential meet-and-greet today. Image via Getty]

Be scared, Democrats, because Daddy's taking the credit card away. That's right: George Soros, the billionaire financier who's bankrolled many Democratic victories in previous years, isn't donating to them this year, saying that even he can't stop the Republican "avalanche."

Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz have donated a total of $170,000 to support California's Proposition 19 to legalize marijuana. In so doing, the old friends of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have become two of pot legalization's best friends.

In your precipitous Monday media column: HuffPo's hefty bus price tag, the Tina Brown-to-Newsweek deal seems very close, a Jarvis-Weisberg Twitter feud, the Chicago Tribune's editor consoles his staff, and our boss is finally in a real magazine.

Good news for Lindsay Lohan: All press really is good press, and cocaine scandals are good for business. Kate Moss' annual income has doubled since pictures of her doing lines appeared in the British press.

Who: The former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk, and the author of 2007's The Diana Chronicles, Brown now presides over the website The Daily Beast. She's married to editor Harry Evans.

[Actor Matt Damon and director Clint Eastwood are bummed to see you at the premiere of their new movie The Hereafter. Photo via Getty.]

Soul singer Solomon Burke, famous for writing songs like "Cry To Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love," died on a plane today at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Burke recently said, "Loving people is what I do." He was 70. [AP]

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban today said a reservoir wall holding back poisonous red sludge was "very likely" to collapse, and ordered the evacuation of the village of Kolontar. The alumina plant has already spilled 700,000 cubic meters of sludge.

[Beautifully coiffed huckster Donald Trump received an honorary Doctor of Business Administration award from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. He's also building a probably-tacky golf course in the area. Image via Getty]

Mayor Mike Bloomberg likes junk food, just not for poor people. He's gone to war against salt and soda, but his company's office remains stocked with goodies: "We have all the junk in the world up there," one employee says.

Indonesian Playboy publisher Erwin Arnada, who was sentenced to two years in jail for public indecency, turned himself in to authorities after he was due to surrender in August. All this trouble and the magazine didn't even show boobs.

[High-flying Grupo Puja! perform an alarming act at the opening event of the Melbourne Festival in Australia. Don't look down! Image via Getty]

When asked about creating his own clothing line, Kanye West told British Elle that Lindsay Lohan's line for Ungaro was "9/11 for celebrities doing fashion. After that, I thought, 'Well I can't do a line now.'" Harsh, but true. [via]

Much attention has been paid to Mad Men's female actresses' anatomy. But what about the plight of Jon Hamm's penis? The poor man can't afford underpants and is forced to display his genitalia in clingy pants everywhere he goes.

Former Virginia Sen. George Allen, who was coasting to re-election in 2006 until he called someone, on video, the obscure racial epithet "macaca," is prepping a 2012 Senate run for his old seat! Finally, things are returning to normal.

Anderson Cooper was on Ellen recently talking about gay bullying, and he mentioned (but not by name) the trailer for the Vince Vaughn comedy The Dilemma, which prominently features a gay joke. Cooper is not happy with it, understandably.

Ryan Seacrest and entertainment company AEG are in talks about launching a "lifestyle oriented" channel. The Hollywood Reporter asks, "Are you ready for the Ryan Seacrest channel?" No, we got rid of our duct tape and plastic sheeting in 2005.