• Retired dot-com baron wants to pay Hillary Clinton $1 million to pose nude. I have no comment, except to point to this MetaFilter comment on the story, which wins the thread.

• Police department in Louisiana buys the town’s mayor a sweet $700 hunting bow and a Wal-Mart gift certificated for Christmas last year. In fact, the PD was buying gifts for all sorts of city employees and their relatives. Problem is, it all came out of a charity Toys for Tots fund.

• Smarmy, earnest, Gerson-esque ex-Bush aide Tim Goeglein gets caught plagiarizing.  What’s weird about this isn’t the fact that a judgmental God-and-family conservative got caught lying and stealing, it’s that he did it for such small stakes.  You’re going to risk your career and reputation to publish columns in the second biggest paper in Ft. Wayne, Indiana?  You have to be pretty dumb to think you can get away with this crap in the age of Google.  Also, how Goeglein got caught is pretty amusing:

The story was new media, but, ironically, at its core was a very old-media concern—getting the little things right. Friday night, I got an e-mail from a fan of that notable Dartmouth professor of philosophy whose name started this whole thing. And guess what? Jeffrey Hart misspelled his name. It’s Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, not Eugene, not Hussey. When I entered the misspelled name into Google, it only turned up a couple pages of hits, and Hart’s essay was on the first page, so I spotted it right away. But if Hart had spelled the name correctly and Goeglein had pasted it as such in his own column, Hart’s decade-old Dartmouth Review essay, which mentioned the professor only in passing, would probably have been far back in the queue in the 20,000 Google hits his real name gets. And I probably would not have seen it—after all, I was just trying to find out how “notable” he was.

• Yet another case of criminals posing as cops to get into someone’s home:

Police in Chelsea are looking for two men who robbed a home after pretending to be police officers.

Over the last six months, there have been several similar crimes in Chelsea, Boston and Everett.

Authorities say the suspects target illegal immigrants who may be scared to talk to police.

Police say the men were carrying badges and what looked like a police radio when they showed up at the home on Broadway on Sunday night.

After being let into the home, police say the two men took jewelry and an undetermined amount of cash and fled in a white Volkswagen Jetta.

• Eyes straight ahead, at all times.

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