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News Bits
- New Yorker Leona ("Queen of Mean") Helmsley seals her fate as a heartless biatch by leaving $12 million, the majority of her will, to her dog.
- Lindsay Lohan checklist: Coke possession. Check. Arrested. Check. Sex Scene? Check!
- With his last official day of work approaching this Friday, Karl Rove's car got Saran Wrapped and slapped with an I Heart Obama sticker.
- Straight out of the 18th century--drug dealer gets tarred, feathered while holding a sign saying "I'm a drug dealing scumbag" (with picture).
- Bad: 20 million condoms recalled in South Africa. Worse: Condom company bribed government to certify them in the first place.
- The Northwest Passage is now ice-free for the first time in recorded history.
- The bidding for Barry Bonds' #755 & #756 opens today.
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