-- The Los Angeles Times reports that the real estate bubble "sure doesn't want to pop just yet." In a first for our wildly-overinflated, Hell-in-a-handbasket town, the median home price in Los Angeles County crossed $500,000. In other news, we begin sobbing uncontrollably at the thought of renting forever.

-- Scandal? What scandal? A contrarian piece that says that given all the moral turpitude in our fair city, the Page Six scandal belongs on page 34. We couldn't disagree more, if for no other reason than: Enough with Pellicano already. Who didn't the Pelican wiretap? (oh, by the way? Ron Burkle wants you to know: Extortion? It's bad for journalism.)

-- A review of the new Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder — described as "a 512-hp, 190-mph exercise in visual villainy," per Dan Neil. No doubt, coming to a telephone pole near you, Malibu!