Meet Knuckles, a sweet-faced puggle who has unwittingly instigated a $60,000, cross-country court battle between two bitter exes.

The ex-boyfriend says the dog is like a son to him. The ex-girlfriend says he unconditionally gifted her the dog. He’s hired a lawyer to fight for the dog in New York and California courts, and he’s soliciting donations online.

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For those who have everything: The chair with a built-in heating/cooling system that changes according to your body temperature. This could potentially end the office thermostat wars by putting climate-control decisions “in the hands, or butt, of every employee.”

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Only in America: A 6-year-old Colorado boy was suspended from school for reciting the rap lyric “I’m sexy and I know it” to a female classmate. The LMFAO track recently topped the national charts, but school officials said first-grader D’Avorite Meadows committed sexual harassment by quoting its chorus. “I’m floored,” said his mom.

When Obama endorsed legal gay marriage this week, he cited his daughters Sasha and Malia as factors in his evolving stance, noting that some of their friends have gay parents in admirably committed relationships. That was enough to provoke Bristol Palin, who fired off a blog post chiding Obama for being influenced by what “teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.” Instead, she said, the president should have explained “to Malia and Sasha that, while [their] friends’ parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage.”

This isn’t the first time Bristol has written an open letter to Obama, nor is it the first time she’s stirred up controversy. Here, a brief history of Palin’s notable flaps:

• February 16, 2009 — In her first interview since giving birth, Bristol tells Fox News  that abstinence policies are simply “not realistic at all.”
   
• May 6, 2009 — Now a pro-abstinence spokesperson, Bristol says on Good Morning America that “regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only… 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy.” She insists her February statement was taken out of context.
   
• Jan. 27, 2011 — Washington University in St. Louis disinvites Bristol from a “Sex Week” panel discussion on abstinence. Students had objected to Palin’s keynote speech and, especially, her proposed $20,000 fee. It’s not like she brings a “unique and engaging perspective” to the topic, says Sean Janda at Student Life.
   
• April 5, 2011 — Tax documents show that, as an abstinence ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation, Bristol earned $262,000 in 2010, while in the same period the foundation spent just $35,000 on grants to health and counseling clinics for pregnant teenagers. “For every dollar Bristol gave to the cause, she gave $7.50 to herself,” says E.D. Kain at Forbes.
   
• May 3, 2011 — Bristol hits the red carpet at the Candie’s Foundation benefit gala in New York, sporting a new look — or more specifically, a new face. Rumors abound that she had plastic surgery on her nose, chin, jaw, and cheeks. Palin responds that she had medically necessary “corrective jaw surgery” that, along with a liquid diet, incidentally “improved the way I look.”
   
• Sept. 22, 2011 — Palin gets in a shouting match with a fellow patron at a West Hollywood watering hole. After Bristol falls off the mechanical bull she was riding, a man insults her and her mother, using crass language. Why don’t you like my mom? Bristol shot back. “Is it because you’re a homosexual and that’s why you hate her?”

But wait, there’s more… 

Hear about the new film starring Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore? Yeah, neither did we.

LOL, an adaptation of a 2008 French film about teenage romance and heartbreak, earned a pitiful $440 at each screen it played on over the weekend, collecting a mere $46,500. That’s less than The Avengers made per screen this weekend.

What happened?

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Meet the man who says he’s found Osama bin Laden’s corpse. 

California undersea treasure hunter Bill Warren says he’s nailed down the spot where the Navy heaved the body overboard, and will mount an expedition this summer to drag bin Laden’s corpse up from its watery grave, photograph it, and take DNA samples.

“This search will attempt to prove one way or the other that bin Laden is dead,” he says on his website. 

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“As you can imagine, I am a little occupied at the moment, but perhaps someday I can help you forget Sarah Marshall…again. My only condition is that there be Muppets involved, and that is non-negotiable.”

— Hillary Clinton’s unsolicited response to Jason Segel, after he quipped to Us Weekly that he’d like to work with Clinton on a sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

“Can the Secretary of State get any hipper?” Yes. Yes she can.