Taylor Swift greeting cards, goat carcasses, pedophiles, and more

Taylor Swift has partnered with American Greetings Corp. to create a line of greeting cards and other stationery. In other news, Maria Carey is coming out with a line of greeting cards that is rumored to be much better than Swift's.


Buzkashi, a sport played with a headless goat carcass, is undergoing a revival in Afghanistan with more games, players, and spectators than ever before. While repulsive to most Westerners, the game already has more fans than the WNBA.


NASA said last week that contrary to doomsday predictions, the world is not ending in 2012, although the fact that Sarah Palin can sell signed copies of her book for $100 leads some to believe that the apocalypse is near.


A new report finds that the average male in the United States has added 17.1 pounds in the past 20 years, while the average female has added 15.4 pounds — but doesn't look fat at all, according to the average male.


Colorado's state attorney has concluded that medical marijuana can be taxed, allowing the state to collect up to $15 million a year on sales, and allowing Taco Bell to continue selling record numbers of Chalupas.


President Dmitri A. Medvedev called for reforms to Russia during his state of the nation address, saying “...modernization will be based on the values and institutions of democracy.” Guards then pointed rifles at anyone who did not applaud.


Video bingo has become a topic of debate in Alabama. While some say it's gambling and should be banned, others strongly support the past-time. Meanwhile, residents are dealing with troubles of their own in trying to get their bingo chips to stay on the screens.


Richard Heen, father of the boy he'd falsely reported was in a runaway balloon, will plead guilty to felony charges of influencing a public servant. Heen said he took the blame to prevent his wife's possible deportation to Japan. If deported, however, Heen said he has a creative way to get her there.


The U.S. Postal Service will no longer forward "Dear Santa" letters to the Alaska town of North Pole, citing concerns about the names, addresses, and other private information about children getting into the wrong hands. Santa responded by saying, “Those charges against Vixen were never proven."


Zookeepers at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have reported that a tortoise they’ve been calling “Mary” for the past 50 years is actually a male. The tortoise has since been renamed “Gaga.”

Police in Peru have broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people to extract their fat and sell it for use in cosmetics. The bust puts a huge damper on L'Oreal's new new make-up line, “Dead Sexy.”


Oprah Winfrey is set to announce Friday that she's ending her show when her current contract expires in 2011, capping her 25-year career on national TV. Winfrey then plans to join the New York Jets.


Nestle said heavy rains have made it difficult to pick pumpkins, limiting the amount of Libby's pumpkin pie products available for Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, there is no relief in site for the shortage of Eggo waffles Kellogg’s reported earlier this week. In other news, locusts have devoured all Little Debbie snack cakes and Campbell’s soups have reportedly turned to blood.