Everyone's favorite Biblically-correct beautyqueen is being sued by a Christian PR firm for $64,000. Supposedly she hired the firm to help her spread her message of love when she hit big last year, and then never paid them. [TMZ]

Michael Steele is just wasting RNC money on limos and private planes and, yes, private bondage-themed nightclubs with topless ladies. Update: A Republican consultant charged the trip to the RNC, and the party says Chairman Mike was not actually there.

According to this Today Show investigative piece, Seniors are being scammed by incarcerated crooks pretending to be their snot-nosed Grandchildren. Oh humanity!

Politico bombshell: 43 Congressional staffers make $173k year.

Jim Cramer was on The Martha Stewart Show ready as always with some 'sound financial advice.' This time Cramer has figured out how to assuage our financial woes and stresses through gardening - by planting a money tree!

A financial expert was giving advice about tracking expenses online when Martha interrupted with questions about debit cards, asking "Does it just beep? What does it do when you overdraw?" Ten bucks says Martha's never received an overdraft charge, either.

More than half of self-identified Republicans don't blame banks for the financial crisis. Pollsters didn't ask who they do blame, but I'm guessing it's "blacks, poors, Nobama, Barney Fag and ACORN."

After 15 years of legal wrangling, a San Francisco court that says Smith's estate has no right to more than $300m she claimed her late billionaire husband, oil magnate J. Howard Marshall, promised her from his $1.6bn fortune. [AP]

Dick Cheney's speaking fees: "As of last year, Dick Cheney commanded $75,000, plus first-class travel for an entourage of three. Liz Cheney gets $20,000 plus travel for one." Well, that's still less than Gore. And Paris Hilton.

The student loan reform legislation that's tied up in the Senate is one of those no-brainer obviously good-policy bills that you have to be a corporate-money beholden parochial stooge to oppose. Those stooges signed a letter of stoogedom.

Once bloggers picked up on the fact that Intrade had gotten rather bullish on Obamacare, the price plummeted to 35. Today it's back up in the 60s. Curious!

First, Desiree Rogers refused to acquiesce to Sally Quinn's demand that she be an old person from Georgetown. Then she let some losers into a party. Now we learn that she forgot to send Christmas cards to rich people!

The actor died without much money to his name. So his hometown, report People Magazine today, will cover the costs of his burial. Startifacts.com, a celebrity memorabilia website, say they will also contribute $20,000 for a tombstone and other miscellaneous expenses.

On her show tonight, Suze Orman entertained a request from a woman who wanted to buy $1,400 headphones. Orman then went on a sweet/hilarious/awesome tangent about her love for Lady Gaga—love that's not reciprocated, apparently. Video inside.

Last night on The Millionaire Matchmaker we saw a first-hand account of how to ruin a glamorous date with one of Patty's millionaires: showing up to the date schnockered. Here, Angel shows us how to ruin a night in Vegas.

For the first part of the date, Jimmy D decided to throw down $50,000 in a poker game with Angel. She doesn't know how to play at all, and what's worse—she reeks of alcohol! In this clip, Jimmy D mentions his concerns for Angel's drunkenness, but plays along and teaches her the game.

Since this is my last weekend on the site until I return, begging for a job as James Del's assistant, I've invited some friends along. Maura Johnston used to write Idolator. She's been on the internet longer than you. Maura?

Last night's Important Thing was Money. Here, Demetri explains how what term a person calls their money can tell us how much cash they actually have. For example, if you call your money "dough," you're probably broke and a douchebag.

If, like these Canadians, I shelled out two million dollars for one lunch with Warren Buffett, I might ask for the restaurant to be closed. Plus: right by the kitchen? That is the worst table in the house!

Today's Tyra is focused on how wealth affects the dynamic between men and women in heteronormative relationships.

Harold Ford needs a better agent. He's got a plum gig speaking in Bermuda to a bunch of tax-dodgers next month, but in April he goes to Vegas to talk about chickens. As long as the check clears, right?