I don't like Mondays

Courtesy The Morning News, this totally excellent news story about a teenaged Japanese girl who, obsessed with a 1950s British murderer, copied his crime by poisoning her mother, recording her deeds in an online journal.

In other family news in focus, Tom Cruise has fired his sister from her job as his publicist after finally realizing he had become a laughingstock during a year in which he agressively pushed his Scientology beliefs (Cruise's sister is also a Scientologist), married a starlet 30 years his junior, and demanded the presence of Scientology "counselors" on his movie sets.

And in Miami, Oh., goats help a 12-year-old boy manage his ADHD. He jumps on a trampoline with them -- I swear to God! Check out the picture that accompanies the story. The news hook -- as if this story needed one -- is that zoning officers don't like the family keeping goats in their suburb.

But officer, the only time they "bahh" is when they jump on the trampoline! It's fun for them!