The maker of those little tree-shaped air fresheners you find dangling from rear view mirrors have sued Gap Inc. over Old Navy's use of the iconic image in a t-shirt, emblazoned with the slogan "Keeping it Fresh." The federal lawsuit, according to the Examiner, was brought against the local retail mammoth in U.S. District Court in Syracuse, N.Y. The company, simply titled Car-Freshener Corporation of Watertown, claims that "the design on the T-shirts is identical to their trademarked design, which is used by the company on car air fresheners, apparel and other items."

The company is looking to bar Old Navy from buying, selling, and advertising its tree-designed items.

That said, here are some Old Navy locations in the Bay Area. You might want to think about taking an early lunch break to head over and buy one before the controversial shirts sellout. Much like Paul Frank's and Abercrombie & Fitch's t-shirts that were supposedly racist and banned a few years back, these shirts are sure to become collector's items as well. Go buy four of them.

We swear, this guy is one step away from strapping road flares to his chest.

Now, it's increasingly difficult for us to explain the conceptual art that is Michael Savage's work. Its genius lies in its demented complexity. But according to Bay City News (via CBS 5), Savage recently "sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations in federal court in San Francisco Monday over the group's use of his words on its Web site." Apparently, they used one of his many hateful yet poetic and loud crazy-man diatribes about Islam on their site. Savage says he was taken out of context, but Ibrahim Hooper, an American-Islamic Relations spokesman, said that the his lawsuit "seems to be a legal and rhetorical rant" (heh) as well as "one of the most vicious attacks on the faith of Islam that I've heard in more than 20 years of anti-discrimination work."

Well, we really don't know what to say about Savage's fit about how others should use his words (especially since his own critical thinking skills are famously dull.) Except: oh you, Michael. You just go on keeping it real. Mighty real. Mighty crazy real.

Read more about it here.

Weep no more, my lady.

After handing over an apology to the sobbing mother of a Chinese journalist that they helped imprison, Yahoo now must hand over an undisclosed amount to the scribes. Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao, the latter a former journalist at Contemporary Business News, will receive a hefty, unknown amount from Yahoo, Inc. The Chinese journalists sued Yahoo, blaming them for their imprisonment and torture by Chinese government officials.

"According to the suit, the other journalist, Wang Xiaoning, was arrested in 2002 after Yahoo HK gave police information linking him to his anonymous e-mails and other political writings he posted online," says the Chronicle.

Aaaand, in related news, this might be the perfect time for you to switch over that e-mail account to Gmail. What? We're just saying is all.