Paula Abdul turns the tables on the paparazzi by — gasp! — taking photos of them.

Oh, Paula. Does your wit know no bounds?

Senator Hilary Clinton has challenged Barack Obama to a bowl-off. Winner take all.

The new R.E.M. album, Accelerate. The boys showed up on the Today Show to perform and celebrate.

I’m listening to the album right now on my Rhapsody player. It’s pretty good, but nowhere near the awesomeness of the new Counting Crows album. I LOVE YOU, ADAM DURITZ!!!

To check out the R.E.M. boys performing their songs this morning, click here.

This is fabulous.

Gary Milby, the father of one of the girls featured on My Super Sweet 16, turns out to be a “fake” oil tycoon who swindled senior citizens out of tens of millions of dollars.

“I love oil,” his daughter Ariel proclaimed during the episode. “Oil means shoes and cars and purses.”

In a lawsuit filed in September by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the government agency responsible for enforcing federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry and stock market), Milby is alleged to have diverted at least $12 million in investors’ funds into offshore accounts and family trusts. The cash was also used, the SEC said, to fund the Milbys’ extravagant lifestyle and child-support payments.

According to the SEC’s complaint, Milby and his company, Mid-America Energy, Inc., carried out a fraudulent oil-and-gas investment scheme that tricked nearly 400 people out of more than $19 million. For his alleged violations, the SEC has sought a permanent injunction against the fake oil tycoon, disgorgement with prejudgment interest, a civil money penalty and an account of Milby’s finances.

Milby — who faces a single criminal charge for felony fraud in Louisiana — has denied the SEC’s charges and maintains his innocence.

The irony is, if he hadn’t done the MTV show displaying his extravagant lifestyle, investigators may have gone easier on him.

“That MTV show really put Milby on the road map,” Frank Panepinto, a fraud investigator with the Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions, told the New York Times. “That really got people aggravated with him.”

Heh. I love it when super-rich asswipes get what’s coming to them.

“My urge to stay sober, today, is way stronger than my urge to get fucked up. I truly pray to keep it that way … I’m going door-to-door from rehab to a sober house. Woo-hoo!”

Steve-O, who’s currently in treatment for alcoholism and drug abuse.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m actually proud of Steve-O right now.

Sandler’s reps have issued a statement saying he broke his ankle playing basketball this weekend.

You’re not getting any younger, buddy!

They’re on. They’re off. They’re on. She’s pregnant. Whatever.

Britney Spears and manager Larry Rudolph are back on. He’ll be managing her again.

You’ll recall, it was Larry who pushed to get Britney into rehab awhile back, and Britney spoke publicly about her hate for her, while father Jamie Spears rushed to his defense. I guess Jamie’s hired him again.

I think this is really good news for Britney. Things are back on track, baby!!!