Leftovers: Demolition derby

• If you ever steal a car, try not to hit the car of a former Philly police commissioner while speeding away from police. [6 ABC]

• From Dan Gross, a real celebrity sighting: “NBC-10’s Tim Lake and Harry Hairston also watched college ball over dinner at Great American Pub (101 N. Narberth) in Narberth a couple nights back.” Actually, I’m just joking about this to avoid thinking about Linda Lovelace pleasuring Harry Jay Katz, also mentioned in Gross’ chock-full column today. [DN]

• Pour a 40 on the curb outside Independence Hall over the death of the old, ugly Liberty Bell pavilion. Actually, don’t. The park rangers there will probably shoot on sight if they see you stopping for more than a second in front of the home of Independence. [Inky]

• The annoyed, young member of the burgeoning slackerati class wants to scoff at this, but the English major in me is amused and impressed: Geoffrey Chaucer has hath a blog. [Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog]

• The Department of Justice v. Google has presented us with a very fine treat, a court order with “teabagging” and “pearlnecklace” in it. Even if it leads to glogging, I love the Internet. [Boing Boing]

• Aaron Spelling and his wife have cut off contact with their talking horse. [New York Post]