A teen from Suisun City admitted to authorities that she lied about being abducted to get attention from her family. Christina Almanza, who was reported missing Thursday afternoon, claimed "she was being held hostage, possibly with other females, in a basement and that one female might have been killed." But is it really that bad? Weren't we all raised with sitcoms that employed the use of fake kidnappings in order to get mom and dad back together? Or something like that? She's just a teenager. A stupid teenager. Like all teenagers. (We're on your side, Christina. We are. However, the part about telling your parents that you're being held by sex traffickers was downright horrific? You don't do that to you parents, no matter what your batshit hormones and mushy teenage brain tell you.)

According to The Daily Mail, "A family friend said she had hoped the abduction story would win her sympathy from her parents and make them less angry about [her] pregnancy." Anyway, the fuzz arrested her for filing a false police report. She was later released to her parents’ custody.

Yeah, yeah. We stuck this in Day Around the Bay, but we feel it merits its own post. (Besides, we'd hate for some local bloggers to go one day without bashing us in private for being "too gay now." We digress.)

While filming Gus Van Sant's Milk in San Francisco last year, Sean Penn was overcome with joy shocked at the size of co-star James Franco's reproductive organ during the filming of nude scenes. Finally, Franco revealed to a curious Penn that his man meat was, in fact, a prosthetic. " A couple of weeks later we did this scene," Franco says, "where we're both dancing and we're naked, and we both have prosthetic penises" which is when he broke the news to a (presumably) deflated Penn.

Still, we didn't know Van Sant's ode to former City Supervisor Harvey Milk involved so much (and such massive) full-frontal. We're buying tickets today. (Pink News)

Delicious, effervescent cold remedy Airborne, it seems, exaggerated their sniffle-fighting prowess. Turns out they faked their clinical trials, and are now offering you, the customer, some cash back. According to a 2006 ABC report:

Airborne said that a double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted with “care and professionalism” by a company specializing in clinical trial management, GNG Pharmaceutical Services.

GNG is actually a two-man operation started up just to do the Airborne study. There was no clinic, no scientists and no doctors. The man who ran things said he had lots of clinical trial experience. He added that he had a degree from Indiana University, but the school says he never graduated.

And after angry customers sued the company, they now have to pay up. Sigh.

Although almost every schoolteacher recommends this product to everyone they meet, "fake cold remedy" is a damaging term. Airborne is, in a word, done. If you want in on the settlement, or to find out more about the lawsuit, check out their settlement page.

In addition to unveiling the MacBook Air, le Jobs also premiered a new look. Or not. Seamus over at Rangelife picked up on this minor broadcasting muddle over at KTVU. Dennis Richmond will not be pleased.