[Artist Tony Tasset unveiled this alien-like sculpture of a giant eyeball in a Chicago park. Godzilla has already challenged it to a fight in the World Cup for Monsters. Image via Getty]

America's most unpopular national political figure Sarah Palin has it in her head that all "mothers" love her and agree with her stupid worldview of lies. This SarahPAC video goes out to them, the women who have spawned! [via]

The Nation reports that creepy Blackwater owner Erik Prince, who has abruptly put his company up for sale, may move to the UAE, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. He hasn't been charged with any crimes, yet.

Summer monster season has begun! This foot-long creature with a rats tail was found in a creek in Northern Ontario. Elders used to find them all the time, but this is the first Oomajinakoos to be found in forty years.

Monster Season 2010 has already brought us the Giant Sea Bug and the Giant Scary Lizard; today, scientists say they have found the storied Giant Palouse Earthworm. Nine translucent inches...of doom. Eh. [NYT. Pic via]

In 1978, Rev. Stephen Kiesle pleaded no contest to charges of tying up and molesting two young boys in a rectory. The Diocese of Oakland asked Cardinal Ratzinger if Kiesle could be defrocked. Four years later, Ratzi recommend against it.

This giant speckled beady-eyed six-foot reptile from the Philippines has been declared a new species. It "feasts on fruits and snails rather than carcasses." Sure, sure. You can pat it. [AP]

Poor 'Oriental Yeti'. Not only did the media give you an antiquated name after you were trapped by some hunters in Sichuan, China: You have no hair! Scientists are baffled. We are, too: Aren't Yetis supposed to be scary? [Telegraph]

Here is a frightening thing for a frightening time. A 2.5-foot giant isopod that was found attached to a submersible robot. These actually exist, deep under the sea, where they feast on whale carcasses. Another terrifying angle, after the jump.

John Edwards decided to follow up his admission of what everyone already knew by going to Haiti to participate in relief efforts. Coincidentally, cameras followed him!

As is required of all blogs these days, The Awl gets its very own monster.

This girl wouldn't think twice about taking on the boogeyman. She should probably work on her language, but her practical solution to the appearance of a monster overshadows any potty mouth.

When Tila Tequila first popped onto the scene, she was the harmless, if ugly, face of fame's grim seduction. In the wake of "fiancée" Casey Johnson's death, she now represents everything wrong with our modern era.

Long Island's Area 51? Presented without comment: The Montauk Monster U.F.O. Balls Conspiracy.

An 18-year-old in Texas was sentenced to eight years in prison with no possibility of parole for three graffiti charges and weed possession. Eight years. In prison. Here's the sentencing judge, Marisela Saldaña. Looks awful Satan-like, no? [AnimalNY]

when asked whether Spike Jonze's movie based on his book Where the Wild Things Are is too scary for kids in a Newsweek interview.

Your Daily Monster: Mom keeps teen locked in closet for most of 4 1/2 years.

We joke about scary villains in media. I wish I could joke about Peter Braunstein, the Woman's Wear Daily writer who raped and tortured a woman for 13 hours in 2005. The NYDN interviewed him. How far has he come?

UPDATED: The story behind our Cowbeast of Death, his mugshot, and his name.