How the salacious, greedy smut peddlers originally in possession of these nude photos of Hills brunette Audrina Patridge were able to wait until now to release them is beyond us. (Aren't impatience and horniness irrevocably bound?) However delayed, the pictures, reportedly part of a Playboy tryout, have finally surfaced, and they're uncomfortable to look at.

Big news: while you were sleeping, Britney Spears was once again being involuntarily hospitalized as a danger to herself and others. Nobody left her alone like castrato harbinger Chris Crocker warned, and finally it all got to be too much.

The situation unfolded thusly: Following some weird interaction they had over the phone, Britney's mother started the evening worried that her daughter might try to kill herself. Britney did not try to kill herself, but if she did nobody could really blame her, which is perhaps why her psychiatrist made a house call later that night. Lacking confidence in her abilities, the psychiatrist called the police and told them Britney's "downhill behavior" and reckless driving made her fear for the pop star's safety and the safety of those around her. An absurdly large fleet of police escorts and ambulances fueled with taxpayers' money were dispatched to haul a calm Britney – codenamed "The Package" – to the UCLA Medical Center's psych wing, where she will remain for an undetermined amount of time.

Crazy, huh?

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