Nasty Bits

Video of someone who apparently looks a hell of a lot like R. Kelly peeing on a 13-year-old girl will be shown at the singer's rape trial. [BBC]

Woman beats other woman with dead chihuahua. [NYT]

I bet you didn't know that "commercial stocks of crude oil in the United States -- the world's largest crude oil market -- are now more than 346 million barrels, a level last seen during the oil glut of 1998." [Stratfor]

Alvaro Vargas Llosa mourns his native Peru, and the whole region's "disconnect between official institutions and social needs -- the legacy of too many caudillos and the absence of the rule of law -- [which] has thrown many people into the hands of leaders who espouse nationalist ideologies." [WaPo]

Radley Balko adds his name to those supporting Mike Cooper, a newspaper employee who ended jailed on $500,000 bail after being caught on tape by a local news crew masturbating in a public library. Ambush reporter Carl Monday blogs on the incident (and manages to mis-spell a three-letter word). Asshole. Thankfully, a judge has reduced Cooper's bail to $500. (Fuck off, local news people!) Balko's also got a good nanny-state rundown.