In your wicked Thursday media column: Time gets graphic, the New York Post doesn't know how to apologize, reporters kidnapped in Mexico, even more sex-related troubles for Sumner Redstone, and a PR service is advertising with Fox News' reputation.
Recently we told you about the neo-Nazi who is leading an armed vigilante border patrol in Arizona. He says America's immigration laws are a joke. So what did he think of yesterday's SB 1070 ruling in Arizona? We asked him.
Police found eight heads in four different places outside of Durango. They had received an anonymous tip that two heads were located beside each of three roads leaving the nothern Mexican city. Roadside cleaners found the other two. [AFP]
Last week's killing of 17 people in northern Mexico was one of "several" carried out by inmates temporarily freed from prison using weapons on loan from prison guards. But the war on drugs should be over any day now. [LAT]
When airport authorities in Mexico City noticed a strange bulge in Roberto Cabrera's shirt they decided to investigate. They found he had 18 rare monkeys in his pockets, and he wasn't happy to see them.
Thanks to Poltergeist, John Wayne Gacy, and their creepiness in general, everyone is scared of clowns. Add to the mix Pedro Artega Velazquez who was arrested while juggling in full makeup on a street corner in Juarez, Mexico.
[Blue crabs head toward the city along the main seaside avenue of Cancun, Mexico, disoriented by ongoing public works along the road. I bet they're feeling pretty... wait for it... wait for it... pissed off. Pic via AP]
Rodolfo Torre Cantu, the frontrunner in the race for governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, was killed today when gunmen opened fire on his campaign van. He's the highest-profile Mexican politician to be murdered since 1994. [Christian Science Monitor]
Sergio "El Shaka" Vega, a narcocorrido singer, was shot in Sinaloa while driving his red Cadillac, becoming at least the seventh musician murdered in Mexico in three years. He had denied rumors of his death hours before the killing. [BBC]
It was a bloody week in Mexico. On Monday alone, 96 people were killed in drug related violence, and yesterday police found 12 decomposing bodies inside a cave in Cancun. It could easily get worse.
A young Mexican matador was arrested for breach of contract Sunday after he dropped his cape and fled the horns of a raging half-ton bull. After his release he said, "I didn't have the balls, this is not my thing."
Unmanned drones are convenient: You can kill bad people from thousands of feet in the air without having to see the whites of their eyes, or track down the license plate number of a speeding car... let law enforcement decide!
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]