The political world recently learned about Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul's college secret society exploits, like when he "kidnapped" a woman, offered her pot, and made her worship a false idol. But the woman now insists, it wasn't a "kidnapping."

Former Party of Five star Jeremy London was kidnapped while changing his tire in Palm Springs. Two men held him at gun point, made him do drugs, and then distribute alcohol in a "gang area." He later escaped. Crazy!

Nahua Indians armed with machetes kidnapped 13 reporters in southwestern Mexico, but released them and instead grabbed the film crew from Grupo Modelo that was shooting a beer commercial on their land without permission. All were eventually released unharmed. [AP]

Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, who worked for the news agency as a freelance photographer and videographer, had been snatched from outside his Baghdad home. No reason was given. He's not the first journalist picked up by the military. [Reuters]

The Baptist missionaries accused of human trafficking for trying to remove 33 children from Haiti insist they were trying to help. But the BBC finds that some missionaries in Haiti are motivated by Pat Robertson's warning that it's Satan's haven.

There are two ways to "get into" journalism. One: Go to journalism school and rise through the ranks of the establishment. This is dumb. The other way: Fly off to a war zone and start reportin'! This is also dumb.

Blogger Michael Yon—one of the few people to break the New York Times' news blackout over the kidnapping of reporter David Rohde in Afghanistan—reports via Twitter that former CIA operatives paid a ransom to secure Rohde's release.

In Part Two of New York Times reporter David Rohde's account of his captivity by the Taliban, we learn two things: 1) The Taliban lies, and 2) it seems like the New York Times' public relations professionals lie, too.

A Seattle woman has accused magician David Copperfield of luring her to his remote private island in the Caribbean, raping her repeatedly, and threatening to kill her if she told anyone. Her complaint reads like a horrifying pulp novel.

As mentioned earlier: New York Times reporter David Rohde managed to escape his Taliban captors to freedom last night by hopping over a wall. He was imprisoned for seven months. How wasn't this widely reported? Even by us? Simple:

JonBenet Ramsey may not have been beaten to death by John Mark Karr, but the John Mark Karr story has certainly been beaten to death by us.