The Interior Department has renamed its perennially incompetent Minerals Management Service the "Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement," so now there will be no more oil spills and we can all shut up.

The Interior Department may outlaw the importing of huge snakes: pythons, boa constrictors, etc. You'll still be able to own and buy them at pet stores, but the price should skyrocket. Goth teens and drug lords are not happy. [Wired]