Their Natural Habitat Does Not Include Cable: Tourist couple finds a seal pup alone on a beach, "rescues it" by taking it back to their hotel room.
They'll Make a Reader of You, Yet: Barnes and Noble cuts its Nook e-reader down to $199; Amazon responds hours later by slashing its Kindle price to $189, announces that next generation Nooks will have Wi-Fi access for $149.
No Shame for the Wealthy: Oil industry executives attack the U.S.'s temporary ban on deep-sea drilling, whine that profits our "energy security" has been compromised.
Golden Gardens Couldn't Be Lovelier This Time of Year: Oh, except that "the amount of fecal cloriform [sic] in the Golden Gardens creek reached a level 10 times higher than the state's allowable amount for recreational swimming."
The World is Drowning: First China, now massive flooding drowns Brazil, with 1,000 people missing and another 100,000 evacuated.
Watch Your Mouth: The U.S. Supreme Court hobbled free speech yesterdayâespecially for journalists and lawyersâby ruling that providing peaceful mediation for terrorist groups, conducting research on terrorist factions, and writing about the actions or motivations of these groups, are all illegal acts.
Watch Your Mouth II: The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain, in person, derogatory comments he made in this week's Rolling Stone about President Barack Obama and various colleagues.
The Mother of All Daddy Issues: Alleged Dutch killer Joran van der Sloot boasts that he's received several marriage proposals (and one plea for his splooge) while awaiting trial for the murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian girl.
Man charged with seven felonies after speeding his wife to a nearby hospital: The officer says the man ran three red lights and his registration was expired; the man says his wife was suffering from a stroke. The officer has since been placed on paid administrative leave.
Brain Found in God's Neck: And now I'm searching for a penis in the clouds. Who knows where else in the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo hid anatomically accurate depictions of the human body?
