AN audit of politicians' internet use has ranked news.com.au as the most visited "adult site".

A fun riddle to ponder is whether Kansas is typically behind the times or ahead of the political curve. Lately, I’m leaning toward the trendsetter theory. Exhibit A: The sudden intense interest in the shadowy Koch family, which bankrolls candidates and interest groups inclined to support an anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-environmentalist, anti-government agenda.

FOLLOWING HER most recent arrest (this time for exiting an Escalade reeking of marijuana and shortly thereafter dropping a little bag of coke from a purse she claims wasn't hers), Paris Hilton was banned yesterday from two Wynn resorts on the Las Vegas Strip (Wynn Las Vegas and Encore).

Locked-out employees of the Journal de Montreal said they plan to begin publishing a free, weekly, French-language tabloid newspaper next month, featuring in-depth material. The lockout began in January 2009, prompting staff to launch the ruefrontenac.com news site on the Internet.

Police have reportedly found the young woman in a red shirt who was filmed throwing puppies into a river.[...]

Two days of talks between bargaining teams for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and striking OPSEU Local 677's staff unit ended Thursday evening when the mediator had to leave.[...]