Low on cash? Florida's here to help you out with one of its signature, foolproof money-making schemes: stealing baby formula.

The Sun Sentinel reports the fall of baby formula's Bonnie and Clyde, Sonya Barbour and Glen Martin. Date night for the couple meant a jaunt to a Palm Springs Walmart, where they attempted to run off with two dozen cans of formula. On Thursday morning, Barbour, 32, and her fiance Martin, 31, placed the cans in their infant son's baby stroller and covered their haul with a blanket. The lumpy ghost-baby looked suspicious to a couple of Walmart employees and a police officer, who eventually found 117 more cans of the stuff lodged behind their front car seats.

Their stash is worth about $2,389, cash that they normally use to buy formula of a more adult variety; the couple said they spend about $200 a day on pain pills combined.

Martin said he's stolen about 500 cans a week for the past six months, while Barbour sells them to a lady she meets in a grocery store parking lot. So far, Martin managed to rake in about $90,000.

In the past week alone, southern grocery stores have seen a rash of baby formula thievieries. Kroger stores in Tennessee recently installed security cameras in the baby aisles of their stores in order to protect the pricey items.

For other frugal couples looking to save money on a newborn, there's always breast milk—though it doesn't sell quite as well.

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New details about the brothers suspected of being behind the Boston Marathon have slowly trickled out today. Investigators are now focusing on a 2011 trip to Russia by the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, where they believe he became radicalized by extremist groups in the north Caucasus region. Russia had asked the FBI to look into Tamerlan's extremist ties, but the FBI's investigation yielded nothing of note and after interviewing him, kept no tabs on him. "The F.B.I. did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign," the FBI said in a statement.

The FBI said Russia had asked for the investigation "based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country's region to join unspecified underground groups."

Russia and the United States have been working closely in the investigation, and Presidents Obama and Putin exchanged a phone call last night, a call initiated by Putin, that stressed how the two countries will be coordinating their investigations despite recent, chilly interactions between the countries.

The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remains in serious condition, and has yet to give a statement to investigators. Federal prosecutors are currently in the process of drafting charges against him.

On another note entirely, the ambassador to the United States from the Czech Republic has issued a statement asking people on Twitter to stop confusing the Czech Republic with Chechnya. The suspected bombers, who have never lived in Chechnya, but are ethnically Chechen, have confused scores of people by their parents being from a place many have not heard of, and these people believing they are instead hearing "Czech Republic" when Chechnya is said on newscasts. Ignore these people. Avoid these people.

Also, Neil Diamond flew out to Boston on his own dime to sing "Sweet Caroline" with Red Sox fans. Good for Neil.

Police used thermal imaging from a helicopter to monitor Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's movement inside of the boat he had been hiding in, when they apprehended him Friday night. Dzhokhar, who was bleeding profusely, remains prone on the floor of the boat for much of the video, as police use a robot to tear away the tarp covering the boat, as well as throw what appears to be flash-bang grenades at the boat.

The younger Tsarnaev brother is still in serious condition, and has not yet been interrogated.

"I, and I think all of the law enforcement professionals, are hoping for a host of reasons that the suspect survives, because we have a million questions, and those questions need to be answered," Governor Deval Patrick told reporters on Saturday.

Dzhokhar reportedly returned to his UMass-Dartmouth campus after the bombings, attending class and even going to a party on Wednesday evening. Dzhokhar left the campus after photos of him and his brother were released by the FBI on Thursday afternoon. "We made a joke like, that could be Dzhokar," Pamala Rolon, a classmate told the Boston Globe. "But then we thought it just couldn't be him. Dzhokar? Never."

The government is still deliberating on how to charge Dzhokhar, but a Justice Department official told CNN that "he will face federal terrorism charges and possibly state murder charges." Authorities are still trying to determine whether, when he is conscious, he will be read his Miranda warning, depending on whether the bombings can be considered a crime or an act of war.

Loud noises and running cops figure into every paranoid stoner's nightmares, but Denver got both in real life yesterday at their packed pot celebration. The collective mellows of the tens of thousands of visitors at Civic Center Park were harshed when a series of gunshots rang out, wounding two, according to the Associated Press.

"I sort of panicked," said Ian Bay, who was skateboarding through the park when the sound of shots erupted through his headphones. "I thought I was going through an anxiety thing because so many people were coming after me."

Stephanie Riedel was frolicking with her hula hoop when she heard a handful of shots fired. "I couldn't make sense of what it was at first," she told the AP. "We were all having a good time and I was in the mindframe of, we're here at a peace gathering."

During the pot-scented set of Lil' Flip (who skipped his court date last week for charges involving marijuana and an AR-15 rifle), shots were fired and wounded a man, woman, dog, and grazed a juvenile, reported Denver's ABC 7 News.

Police, who were there to maintain crowd security in the wake of the Boston bombings rather than arrest the entire population of Denver for illegally smoking in public, are still searching for one or two suspects. In the meantime, they're crowdsourcing festival-goers for video or photo leads.

In all of the rally's 29 mellow years, this is the first time there's been a shooting, said organizer Miguel Lopez to ABC 7 News. To have one yesterday was an especially big disappointment, since it marked the inaugural 4/20 of Colorado's legalization of marijuana.

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After more than a year, the Manhattan District Attorney has finally dished out some slow-moving "justice" to a pair of infamous cops who punched or pepper-sprayed Occupy Wall Street protesters: do absolutely nothing.

On Friday, the Manhattan District Attorney announced that it won't be prosecuting either Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who showered a couple of calm, sequestered Occupy Wall Street protesters with pepper spray, or Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona, who punched a protester in the face a month later during a demonstration in the financial district.

"After a thorough investigation...we cannot prove these allegations criminally beyond a reasonable doubt," said the chief spokesperson for the DA's office, Erin Duggan.

Investigators were unable to determine that the acts were unjustified, said a law enforcement source—even though both acts were caught on viral video (pepper spray here, sucker-punch here.)

Said Felix Rivera-Pitre, the protester who was punched, to Gothamist:

The cop just lunged at me full throttle and hit me on the left side of my face. It tore my earring out...I'm HIV positive and that cop should get tested.

Lawyers of the victims suing the cops are less than thrilled with the call. Ron Kuby, attorney for one of one of the pepper-spray victims, called the decision "cowardly and despicable," reported the New York Times.

Bologna, who has been accused of civil rights violations in the past, has claimed that he was aiming the pepper spray at (nonexistent?) men grabbing at cops' ankles, unseen in the video. NYPD first stood by their man, claiming that pepper spray was used "appropriately", according to the Times. Later, though, they docked him 10 vacation days and moved his post to Staten Island. Oh, and we're sure this part is totally unrelated, but Bologna has been with NYPD for about 30 years.

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China's on a mission to ban superstition, according to Reuters. In a rare public forum, the head of China's State Administration of Religious Affairs, Wang Zuoan, announced the government's official position on religion: that it pretty much sucks.

And toss out those fortune cookies while you're at it. Zuoan told state-run newspaper, the Study Times:

For a ruling party which follows Marxism, we need to help people establish a correct world view and to scientifically deal with birth, ageing, sickness and death, as well as fortune and misfortune, via popularizing scientific knowledge.

Zuoan ascribed China's rising fervor for the hip, new trend of religion to China's economic boom, which made people want to search for something reassuring amidst their newly complex lives.

China's religious population is at least 100 million people, with Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Daoists comprising the majorities. They're all technically protected by their constitution, but rights groups note that the country controls religion with an iron grip, says Reuters.

Earlier this month, a Chinese lawyer said he was beaten up by 10 police officers after being told he couldn't defend practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice which officials call an "evil cult", Reuters reported.

Luckily (if that word is still allowed), Zuoan acknowledged that he can't turn China atheist in a single night. "Religion has been around for a very long time, and if we rush to try to push for results and want to immediately 'liberate' people from the influence of religion, then it will have the opposite effect and push people in the opposite direction," he said.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains heavily sedated at a Boston Hospital, as investigators wait for him to regain the ability to communicate before they interrogate him. Unfortunately for investigators, he suffered a serious injury to his neck, that might prevent him from speaking for some time or at all. Authorities are trying to determine whether the shot that injured the suspect was self-inflicted, and believe it to be a strong possibility "because of the trajectory and location of the bullet wound in his neck."

A source tells Newsday that Dzhokhar might have shot himself while hiding in a boat, only moments before being arrested by authorities (audio of which can be listened to here). The throat injury has prevented Dzhokhar from speaking, and investigators and interrogators remain on hand for when he is able to communicate at all, even if that means writing down information.

"We don't know if we will ever be able to question the individual," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said in an interview with ABC News.

"He's not in good shape," a law enforcement official told the New York Times.

Investigators want to know if the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone or if there were others involved in planning the terror attacks. "All of the information that I have, they acted alone, these two individuals, the brothers," Mayor Menino said.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be charged by federal prosecutors as early as today. The controversy surrounding the reading of Miranda Rights to the suspect continues, with the Senator Schumer detailing the legality of a High-Value Interrogation Group, which would be able to interrogate Tsarnaev without a lawyer, even if he isn't labeled as an enemy combatant. The High-Value Interrogation Group is a multiagency team of specialists led by the FBI. Created by President Obama as a basis for dealing with terrorism suspects, and, as expected, its deployments are classified.

Speaking on CNN earlier today, Senator Schumer said that "given the facts that I've seen, it would be appropriate to use the death penalty in this case, and I hope they would apply it in federal court." The distinction between a federal or state prosecution is important for many reasons, one of them being that Massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty.

UPDATE: Tsarnaev is reportedly awake and responding in writing to some questions from investigators.

A husband is suing his wife of barely a week for stealing $72,000 worth of wedding gifts, according to the New York Post. She allegedly kept the $24,000 two-carat diamond engagement ring, snatched a pile of cash and checks on her way out, and absconded with two gold necklaces, three diamond necklaces, a gold bracelet, and a gold ring.

The Brooklyn husband, Kevin Li, had been courting 33-year-old Amy Chan for a year, the suit says. She became pregnant, and the couple got engaged—but Chan allegedly wouldn't marry him because she was on a waiting list for a FiDi apartment. They both work in finance, and their combined salaries would have disqualified Chan, Li said.

So they celebrated unofficially by throwing a giant dim sum party in Chinatown for 100 friends and family, which sounds like the world's most fantastic brunch. But not for Li. If his claims are to be believed, the couple entrusted the wedding gifts to Chan's mother's safekeeping, and Li never saw them again.

Things got even worse after a few days, when Chan allegedly slept over at her parents' apartment and returned to Li only to grab more gifts. The suit says she escaped with the $36,500 "betrothal payment" Li made to Chan's mom, which is supposed to be invested back into the couple's marriage. Within a week, that too was gone when she dumped him, Li claims.

The Post got in touch with Chan, who had choice words for her newly minted ex. "He's lying," she said. "He is a devil."

That's not all: Chan alleged that Li cut off communication first, mistreated her sons, and also stole gifts. So perhaps they'll call that last part even?

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In a study that surprises almost no one, the Bloomberg administration has found that half of New York City residents are "poor" or "near-poor" meaning that they were "making less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold." This is a small rise in the amount of poor from 2009, when the recession officially ended. But as New York City has made abundantly clear, the recovery has not been shared by all (or even many).

The city, in its analysis, recommended against cutbacks to vital public assistance programs, like tax credits and food stamps. These programs are having their budgets cut at the federal and state level, as Washington, and Mayor Bloomberg himself endorses austerity measures in the face of a still-sluggish economy.

"Coinciding with the end of the slump in the job market is the end of the recession-related expansion of the safety net," the report states.

Manhattan has become richer while boroughs where development money and attention hasn't been given, like Queens, are now poorer. The Bronx has remained just as poor as it has always been.

While recent measures in New York City like raising the minimum wage and granting workers paid sick days have helped poor New Yorkers (both measures were opposed by Mayor Bloomberg), Nancy Rankin, an advocate on behalf of the poor, reports that "missing rungs in the ladder make it really hard to climb out of poverty," and cutbacks in aid will make matters even worse.

Drunk driving is, generally speaking, a bad idea, even if you're, say, the husband of a wealthy movie star. A worse idea? Deciding to drunkenly berate the police officers arresting your husband, especially if you're the famous movie star wife of the person getting arrested. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this is just what Reese Witherspoon did early Friday morning, a decision that resulted in her arrest.

As Variety was the first to report, police arrested Jim Toth, Witherspoon's husband and an agent at CAA, for driving under the influence early Friday morning in Atlanta. His blood alcohol level was reportedly .139. As police were dealing with Toth, Witherspoon approached the officers, at which point this exchange reportedly occurred:

... Reese allegedly started acting up, telling cops, "Do you know my name?"

The officer answered by saying, "No, I don't need to know your name."

Witherspoon then came back with, "You're about to find out who I am ... You are going to be on national news."

When officers ordered her back to her car, she complied...for a while, before leaving it to again express "visual and verbal frustration over how long it was taking to arrest her husband." Police then arrested Witherspoon for disorderly conduct.

Witherspoon and Toth were both taken to jail and booked, Toth for DUI and Witherspoon for physical obstruction of a police officer during a traffic stop. They were released not long after, Witherspoon on $300 bond. Both will be in court tomorrow.

UPDATE: Witherspoon issued an apology through her publicist:

"Out of respect for the ongoing legal situation, I cannot comment on everything that is being reported right now. But I do want to say, I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said. It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior."

Below are the couple's mugshots.

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Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is reportedly awake and responding in writing to questions from investigators.

A brand new TV anchor's first words on-air? "Fuckin' Shit!" Seems to be a recurring theme for local TV reporters.

Perhaps stressed by the Koch Brothers' reported interest in buying up major newspapers across the country, Rupert Murdoch has taken up a new hobby: transcendental meditation. Murdoch tweeted the news Sunday afternoon, admitting that he's had some difficulty mastering the practice.

Trying to learn transcendental meditation.Everyone recommends, not that easy to get started, but said to improve everything!

— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) April 21, 2013

A bizarre hobby for Murdoch but, considering some of the interests he's previously discussed via Twitter – the "Jewish owned press" and the "fat lady who fell thru [the] street," etc. – meditation is perhaps an improvement. After all, it's worked, sort of, for at least two Russells (Brand and Simmons) as well as David Lynch. Maybe this is the beginning of a kinder, gentler Murdoch, one who's less likely to hire lying jerks and alleged pig-fucking racists. But I doubt it.

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A French sailor in Australia narrowly escaped death after being attacked by a crocodile. Yoann Galeran, a 29-year-old deckhand, was swimming out to retrieve a dinghy in Nhulunbuy, Australia when he felt a heavy weight on top of him. Right away, he told NT News, he knew it was a crocodile.

"It felt like a big stone or something coming on my head," he said.

"I just thought for sure that is a croc and I started to think the only thing to do was to move my body as much as I can."

Galeran continued to fight the crocodile, pushing and punching it until he was free. His boss, Lisa Heathcote, described the scene.

"He was swimming out and this crocodile has grabbed him by the head and done a roll," she said.

"Then he's just started punching into it and it let him go. Then it came back at him again but he managed to get his hands under its front legs and push it off."

Despite all of that, Heathcote said Galeran appeared to be in good spirits when he returned to the boat.

"He came back into the boat and said he had been attacked by a crocodile," she said. "He was laughing but I think it was shock."

Galeran's take? The croc released him because of their cuddle session. "I hugged him (the crocodile), gave him a little cuddle, and he said, 'he is nice, he is nice' so he left me alone," Mr Galeran joked to AAP.

He suffered several wounds in the attack, including puncture wounds in his neck and head.

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One week after a gut-wrenching Times op-ed, over half the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are now on hunger strike.

Same as the old Gawker. Sort of. As you can see, a few things are different around here this morning. But let's start with what's not changing.

Gawker has adopted a number of different personalities over the course of its 10 (ish?) year history, from sneering New York media outsider to sneering New York media insider to sneering enfant terrible to sneering group lifecasting blog to sneering national news site. But at its core, it has always been committed to stripping back the veneer and assailing shibboleth. We have the advantage of independence, and an institutional aversion to cozy relationships with our peers, and when we're at our best we deploy both to say things that others are unable or unwilling to say. Hamilton Nolan, our longest-serving staffer, is a far better writer than me (or you), so I'll let him say it:

The thing I like most about Gawker is that we are able to dispense with all of the politesse bullshit that surrounds so much establishment journalism and just speak the truth (as we see it, at least). We’re not required to hem and haw and couch what we want to say in euphemisms. If something is bullshit, we can say “this is bullshit."

I think that this is ultimately Gawker’s most important role in the media. Amid all the funny things and time-wasting things and ridiculous things we publish, we tell the truth, in far more direct way than readers can find in most other places. And I sincerely believe this is noble, even if we sometimes surround it in a bunch of cat videos. One of the old proposed but not adopted slogans for the site was, “Honesty is our only virtue.” I like that.

Consider that slogan adopted. We will continue to publish ridiculous, time-wasting things because we are ridiculous people who like to waste time, ours and yours. But we will continue to try to puncture egos and butcher sacred cows and jump on radioactive stories without regard to consequences, careers, or the intricate ethical straitjackets so many in our profession impress themselves with. We won't always be right, but we will always be honest.

Speaking of sacred cows: Today, we relaunch Valleywag, our site dedicated to mocking the stupidity, incompetence, and avarice of Silicon Valley and the gargantuan grift known as the "tech sector." The young and furious Sam Biddle, late of Gizmodo, will run the site. Gawker's newest writer Nitasha Tiku, who starts today and was formerly the editor of the New York Observer's tech coverage, will lend her expertise to that project as well when circumstances warrant. Sam has written a manifesto of sorts here, but suffice it to say: A reckoning is coming, and we intend to be a part of it.

Which brings us to Kinja. Our commitment to honesty is enforced in part by you, and your ability to savage and correct and amplify and redirect us with your comments. Working in an environment of constant heckling, often from people who know more than we do about the topics at hand, tends to cultivate a self-defensive, pre-emptive transparency. The revamped commenting system debuting today will refine and sharpen that heckling, and make it more likely, we hope, that informed sources and subjects will bring their voices to bear on our stories, unmediated and of their own volition. It banishes untrusted or new sources to the outer reaches in a "pending queue," while privileging and highlighting threads started by readers that have been found useful in the past. What determines the sort of comment that gets privileged, and hence read? We tend to like it when people read our stories to the end, and then write something approximating an argument. Dumb jokes and contentless insults will be found in "pending."

But wait there's more. In Kinja, any registered user of the site is given their own page—yourcleverusername.kinja.com—from which you can expound on all manner of topics great and small with precisely the same tools we have here. You simply log in, click on the little pencil icon, and type your little heart out. With the click of a button, you can republish posts from us, and we from you (with byline and credit, of course), in a grand frictionless content circle-jerk. Your Kinja blog will also show the comments you've made on Gawker and other Gawker Media sites.

The system also encourages you to "star" posts and "follow" their writers, and makes sharing posts to Twitter and Facebook, etc. much more easy and intuitive. And it permits you, and us, to annotate images by associating comments with specific spots on a photograph. That's one reason that we've decided to start a photo blog, which we'll introduce shortly, as a way to bring beautiful and provocative images to the site.

There will probably be some glitches as we continue to roll this out. When you encounter them, you should contact our help desk here. And while you're at it, email me at john@gawker.com to let me know how much you hate everything. And here's a handy FAQ that ought to explain everything if you get lost.

There has been a lot of hype, both internally and externally, about what Kinja will accomplish and won't. Will it kill Tumblr? Will it fulfill our owner's longstanding dream of building a "dark Facebook?" Who knows. It's a free thing you can use to say dumb stuff. Go for it.

With the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings finally awake and apparently answering questions, authorities are eager to see if their suspicion that he and his older brother were planning on hitting targets beyond Boston will be confirmed.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was found bleeding in a boat at the end of a lengthy manhunt on Friday, is said to be responding to some questions in writing (thanks to a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the throat, Tsarnaev can't speak). The feds haven't read him his Miranda rights, invoking the "public safety exception," exactly so they can find out about possible other bombers and plots. And while most authorities agree the brothers acted alone (despite almost-certainly erroneous reports of a "12-man sleeper cell" pimped by Drudge and others), The New York Times reports that they likely were planning on a spree going beyond Boston:

The two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings were armed with a small arsenal of guns, ammunition and explosives when they first confronted the police early Friday, and were most likely planning more attacks, the authorities said Sunday. [...]

Mr. Davis told CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday: “We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals.”

Beyond that, little new information has surfaced. The FBI is said to be interrogating Tsarnaev's American-born wife, Katherine, and the brothers' uncle Ruslan is telling reporters he believes Tamerlan was radicalized in 2009 by "a recent convert to Islam." There's a long and well-reported Wall Street Journal article about the Tsarnaev family and Tamerlan's extremism. And Buzzfeeᴅ has an article in which Tamerlan's friend Ray speculates, without much cause, that Tamerlan may have murdered someone before the bombing.

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Carl's Jr. continues to dig its greasy claws into the munchies market, one "high-dea" at a time.

Its latest fully-baked product: A Hand-Scooped Strawberry Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwich, which was curiously introduced just in time for 4/20.

Spotted in Newport Beach, California (and possibly Huntington Beach as well), it's unclear at this point if the fast-food chain has wider plans for the product, but a Foodbeast points out, it appears to be "inline with the fast food chain’s recent line ice cream cookie sandwiches" which currently included Oreo and Chocolate Chip.

It is also inline with the Carl's Jr. CEO Andy Puzder's promise to avoid the trend of fast-food chains going on a diet.c

"It's not our personality and it won't become our personality," he told the LA Times earlier this year. "All of our products are indulgent, decadent."

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Amid reports of a vandalized hot tub cover and a stolen snowboard, one item on the sleepy police blotter for the ski resort town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, stood out for being the most exciting incident to occur within city limits in some time:

10:05 p.m. Police received a call from a woman who said her juvenile granddaughter was at the ski area last week and ran into a person who was selling bags of what she thought were portobello mushrooms dipped in chocolate for $30. Police said the granddaughter further informed her grandmother that giraffes were chasing her down the hill after she ate the mushrooms.

Incidentally, the second most exciting thing to have happened in Steamboat Springs occurred earlier that very same day:

10:17 a.m. A woman called police to inform them of an incident that had occurred in the first block Seventh Street around Easter. She told police that she was talking with a group of Russians at a bar and one of them told her, “You have to fight for what you believe in.” She was concerned they could have been speaking about the events in Boston this week. Police determined there was no connection.

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Ryan Lochte is a douchebag with gills, George W. Bush without the evil and/or a golden lab turned into a human. His fame, his good looks, his 11 Olympic medals, his seeming good nature, his unending capacity for inanity and the singularity he achieves within his babbling all make him a perfect specimen for reality TV. E! has given him a show with a suitably dumb name, What Would Ryan Lochte Do...With a TV Show? It debuted last night. It was excellent.

Lochte rambled, he lost his train of thought, he had what amounted to an existential crisis when he admitted he didn't know what the word "douchebag" meant (while referring to Jezebel's 10 Reasons Why Ryan Lochte Is America's Sexiest Douchebag post). He informed us that his favorite movie is What Women Want, although he called it What Woman Want, as though English is his second language after Grunt.

"For me, bein' Ryan Lochte is fun," he tells us, and it shows. It would be fun for all of us. Ryan Lochte is doing really well at life, and the show's mockery of him as well as his own inadvertent mockery of himself make for a guiltless pleasure with no aftertaste — watching a guy get taken down a peg by his own career choice is rarely this enjoyable.

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