• Need the secret ingredient for the perfect chocolate chip cookie? It’s vacuum sealer.

• The next time you and your friends are smoking pot, you can rest assured the law is on your side. The state Supreme Court in Washington ruled that police cannot arrest you even if they can smell the substance.

• After a 12-year-old girl painted her thumb with nail polish to see if she liked the color, she was detained for an hour by a security guard and three police officers. She was considered a thief since she did not have enough money to pay for it. It wasn’t until her parents showed up and paid for the product that she was finally released.

• An American porn star traveled to Australia to advise Pope Benedict XVI on how to handle sexual abuse cases within the Catholic Church. Her advice? Have priests watch porn movies so they can get “street level” sex education. She was kind enough to donate 300 of her own movies.

• A New Jersey woman is suing Eliot Spitzer’s high-priced call girl for defamation and identity theft. She claims that her good name is ruined because whenever someone does a search on her name, pornographic material comes up.