Those Somalian pirates that are just the hottest thing to happen to the women in Somalia since last monsoon season managed to do the unthinkable when they seized a Saudi oil supertanker earlier today. A supertanker…do you know how big those things are?

To give you an idea, it these puppies carry 1/4 of the daily oil production in Saudi Arabia, nearly 2 million gallons.

Unfortunately, the unintentionally hilarious pirate spokesperson was unavailable for comment.

Also unfortunate, but less hilarious, are the 25 crew members still aboard the ship that was captured off the coast of Africa. Oh, and they were carrying oil to America.

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CBS inadvertently made a clever little visual pun for those trying to watch Sarah Palin's speech from last night on itswebsite.

Subversive use of advertising dollars to draw the connection between the Alaskan governor and the black gold under her feet, or just a poorly executed design mishap?

Put your answer in the basket along with two dollars for the Yikes toll, then just drive on through.

If you ask Howell Raines, the last time this country saw any decent reporting about the energy industry was in 2003, when Don Barlett and Jim Steele shined a light on Big Oil's back room dealings and the government's complicit role in it for Time. They won two two Pulitzers and two National Magazine Awards for their work. Outside of their reporting, however, all we're ever treated to is the typical "Gas is expensive!" headline, which is sometimes rewritten as "Pain at the pump," "Consumers cut back on holiday travel," and, "Tax rebate cheques go toward filling up the tank."

Blame general assignment reporters and their editors, says Raines, who all too easily go after the "consumer suffering" angle of the story — and not how companies like Chevron, ExxonMobile, and BP are raking in glorious profits while doing little to nothing to actually reduce oil dependency, find alternative energy sources, or exert any energy to driving down gas prices to below $4 a gallon.

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"If ridiculous looking numbers don't signal a top to an overheated market, ridiculous sounding words do. And when, in this case, there are ridiculous numbers attached to ridiculous words — in other words we hit a double play of idiocy and right in a headline –well, without further ado I bring to you this beauty from Tuesday's Business Week Web site: Oil Hits $129, Heads for $130

"Where to start? With the automatic, implicit assumption that we will go up before down? Perhaps.

"Or the notion that you need a journalist to help you think out the fact that $130 comes after $129." [TheStreet]