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1. Take the money and run: "Jennifer Wilbanks, who became known as the 'runaway bride' after taking off just days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000."

2. Watch what you say; it may come back to bite you: "Nearly five years after President Bush introduced the concept of an 'axis of evil' comprising Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the administration has reached a crisis point with each nation: North Korea has claimed it conducted its first nuclear test, Iran refuses to halt its uranium-enrichment program, and Iraq appears to be tipping into a civil war 3 1/2 years after the U.S.-led invasion."

3. Eugene Robinson on the 'vote values' song-and-dance of the GOP: "The Republicans wouldn't be where they are today -- in control of the White House and all of Capitol Hill -- if they hadn't portrayed themselves as the stalwart defenders of moral standards and painted Democrats as a bunch of anything-goes libertines. Republicans promised social and religious conservatives that the values they treasure would not only be respected but written into law. Even if they didn't deliver on these promises, or even try very hard, Republicans paid enough lip service to moral issues to keep "values voters" inside the tent."

4. Give Peace a Chance: Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie did.

5. I Promise to Investigate Myself: Vladimir Putin pulls an OJ in the wake of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.