Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA whistleblower making headlines now, gave up a lot to expose PRISM, the secret government phone surveillance program. He left a home in paradise -- Hawaii. He lost his consulting job at Booz Allen. And he left one stunner of a girlfriend. Yesterday BuzzFeed revealed the identity of Edward Snowden's girlfriend as Lindsay Mills, a 28-year-old dancer. While Lindsay's blog was still online, BuzzFeed gathered images and quotes. The Daily Mail did some digging on Lindsay Mills as well.

The spy with the pole-dancing girlfriend. Their story is like something out of a movie.

The unemployed single mom turned heroic activist famously portrayed by Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich, was arrested for "drunk-boating" this past weekend! Don't you hate it when seemingly awesome people get caught doing decidedly non-awesome things? Brockovich apologized for her boating DUI, and I don't think this should totally "take away" from all the great work she has done, but all the same, it's too bad.

Also? She gets points for being sorry, but not for what is a pretty sorry excuse:

So how do we all feel about prostitution? Not so good, right? It's kind of a victimless crime though. Unless you look at the wife and the family that gets destroyed by the husband who goes out and gets a hooker. And if that hooker happened to be a really hot Zumba instructor like Alexis Wright instead of a neon wearing ripped pantyhose having hooker from the Point, Houston we have an even bigger problem.

You remember Wright. The hard body fitness instructor who had over 150 clients in Maine. She was a single mom. She also videotaped her clients without their knowledge. She banked over $150,000. Some of those "Johns" were outed. Some feel they deserved it. Wright's whole sordid world came crashing down last year and she just got her jail sentence of 10 months. She says she's happy. She finally feels free. Now shackled her up!

May sure has been Scandal Month for the White House, what with the IRS, the DOJ, drone strikes, Guantanamo. But of all the scandals, this latest one has to be the most salacious. President Obama was caught with lipstick on his collar! Where did it come from? Who has the leader of the free world been stealing kisses from? Kerry Washington? I certainly hope not.

Obama gave the American people an explanation: An "auntie" at a reception celebrating Asian-American and Pacific Islander heritage gave him a little too warm a welcome. Riiiight, a likely story! We have a few theories of our own about how that lipstick got on Obama's collar.

As presidential scandals go, the recent IRS scandal is so, so ... Something you think you should care about but don't because it's about taxes. Isn't there a German word for that? Snoresenfreude? Anyway, it's ALL. SO. SCINTILLATING and it just keeps getting better. Here's the latest shocker: President Obama's lawyer learned about the IRS case weeks ago but didn't tell Obama about it because ____. (Fill in the blank. It's like Mad Libs!)

Well, we could speculate all day. Or we could watch SNL's Amy Poehler and Seth Meyer explain the IRS scandal on their segment, "Really?!? With Seth and Amy." Because Obama apparently gets his briefings from television. And I get my news from comedy shows. But I'll do a little fact checking on Amy and Seth just for fun.

It may not have been his intention, but NBA player Jason Collins has made history this week. Featured in a new Sports Illustrated cover story, Collins said, "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." It's a simple statement, but an extremely ground-breaking one. The Washington Wizards star is the first professional athlete to come out while still playing the game.

When you get married, you vow to love that person in sickness and health, for better or worse, until death do you part. On a wedding day, those vows may feel easy to say to the man in the tux standing in front of you. He's young and hot and sexy (and so are you) and those big problems are still (god willing) a long way off. But they come. Trust me, they come.

Over the course of a lifetime together, a couple will encounter many things. A large number of them will be happy -- births of babies, huge promotions, anniversary trips -- but they won't all be so. Some will be hard. If you stay together, you will encounter parental issues, illness, and death. You will encounter job strain and even financial strain. Your marriage will encounter rough waters.

But those rough waters can (and should!) make you stronger as a couple. Here are 6 problems many marriages encounter that can actually be blessings in disguise. See below:

Oh Oscar. Whatever you believe really happened in that Pretoria mansion on Valentine's Day, this is a shocker. Witnesses say murder suspect Oscar Pistorius was partying with friends at a trendy bar recently. The Olympic athlete was supposedly seen throwing back shots unfortunately known as "shooters." One witness says he even patted a friend's girlfriend on the bottom: "He was greeting a couple and then gave the woman a pat on her backside. It was so inappropriate."

"Inappropriate" doesn't even begin to describe it! Reportedly, the room got suddenly quiet when Pistorius and his entourage entered Kitchen Bar, a restaurant in South Africa. Pistorius settled into a private dining area. It was his first public outing since the shooting death of fiance, Reeva Steenkamp. "He was drinking shooters and he was flirtatious. He didn't seem like someone [who had] lost the love of his life," a woman at the restaurant later said. And that's pretty much what bothers most of us.