Mayor Bloomberg is proposing a ban on smoking in public parks, beaches, and other areas, like the pedestrian walkways in Times Square. Where do they expect everyone to smoke now? How long before cigarettes are outlawed altogether? Five years? Ten?

After the world collectively shrieked with horror at two-year-old smoking baby Ardi Rizal, the parents of this three-year-old Chinese tot thought to themselves, "Hey, we've got a smoking baby. Ours is a boozehound, too." Self-destructing babies: Your ticket to fame.

Everyone's favorite chain smoking two-year-old Indonesian baby, Ardi Rizal, has cut his habit down to 15 cigarettes a day. A child welfare official said the cutback is due to "therapy focused on playing." [The Sun]

The Way We Live Now: Embracing the dark side. When evil is the only path to survival, then evil is the path that we shall trod. Whether that means stealing from neighbors, taking your livelihood, or wearing an ugly sweatshirt.

Now that the city is planning to move forward with a ban on smoking in public parks, a new battleground has opened up in the war on tobacco. Several NYC landlords are now planning to ban smoking in their buildings and are informing tenants that if they smoke inside their apartments, they may be subject to eviction. If…

Scientists have devised a new test that will tell you whether or not you're a shopaholic. This sounds like great news—wouldn't it be useful to know if that afternoon spent at Barneys was a necessary revamp of your fall wardrobe or the sign of an awful addiction?—except the "scientists" in this case are actually…

Is the financial crisis good or bad for the city's strippers and hookers? Depends on who you ask, it seems. According to the Post, "jiggle joints all over the city are seeing a drop in business, with fewer customers, less bar traffic and a drop in lap dances." An item in this week's issue of New York suggests the…

Tragic news for all those who live in trailer parks and think a night out on the town involves a $9.99 all-you-can-eat buffet: A number of casinos are now planning to ban smoking, which means it will no longer be able to tug on a slot machine handle with one hand while holding a Newport in the other. [WSJ]

Katherine Heigl has never failed to shock us, whether she’s yapping about her highly tuned gaydar or wearing dresses made out of The Darjeeling Limited's costume leftovers. But her latest comments on her childhood spent growing up Mormon suggest that, on top of burning Emasculated Husband Joshua Kelley’s pinky finger