Hot suburban moms, and other ways porn is making our lives brighter

No, this is real: a 32-year-old San Jose mother of three has made the cover of Playboy for their "Desperate Housewives" issue. "Baena says her physique is an accomplishment based on rigorous conditioning and 'I want to show it off.'" The Mercury-News article includes a picture of the va-voom cover. (Use this username and password: bugmebob@gmail.com / bugme1 -- courtesy of bugmenot.com.)

In Salon, "men are going to great lengths" (har!) in search of penis enlargement. This comes a few weeks after a story about Russian doctors who... well, I'm not even going to say. See for yourself.

The LA Times says people are fed up with sordid details of Michael Jackson's pecadillos -- and if true, that would be the first time the media has ever overestimated the American people's appetite for sleaze.

On the sunny side of the street we find Rachel Kramer Bussel, whose freelance career really seems to be taking off. But with success comes pressure:

So I'm just trying to dig myself out of all the holes I've built and try to fuck up a little less -- clearly, asking myself not to fuck up isn't even worth it. Nothing anything anyone can do, really, I just have to get through the week somehow and hope that more disaster doesn't befall me.

C'mon, Rachel, it can't be that bad! You're about to be a star.