Sordid

"With her saccharine-sweet smile and impossibly long legs, Barbie is the most famous doll in history. More than a billion Barbies have been sold since the foot-tall plastic pin-up was first revealed to the world at the New York Toy Fair in March 1959, wearing a black-and-white, striped bathing suit."

"The investigation was initiated by the same faction of corrupt Republicans that Palin has been fighting -- and beating -- for years now. And thus far, the investigators have reported that Palin has cooperated fully in every aspect of their digging into a very sordid family affair -- one that involved what appears to be a power-drunk state trooper married to Palin's sister relying on cronyism and the old-boy network to stay on the job and out of trouble."

Atlanta is the Sordid Capital of the World.

"Eighteen years after his girlfriend Elizabeth Bain went missing, 16 years after being convicted of her murder, eight years after spending eight years in jail, Robert Baltovich is not only a free man -- he has been found not guilty. He called it an "18-year nightmare" but on Tuesday, April 22 his ordeal was finally over as prosecutors conceded they did not have enough evidence to proceed with a second trial ordered in the case."