Welcome to the tenth edition of the Not News of the Week: Your weekly reminder that if it’s not worth talking about, then it’s definitely not news.

The Palin family feud is officially underway. Levi Johnston, the guy that knocked up Sarah Palin’s then 17-year-old daughter, is spilling the beans on the secret life of the former governor of Alaska and 2012 presidential hopeful. Johnston says Palin’s reputation as a outdoorsy person is all hype as he’s never seen her touch a fishing pole and claims she can’t identify guns, let alone knows how to fire one. He also tries to debunk the myth that Palin was a good family woman saying that the family rarely talked or ate dinner together and Sarah and Todd’s marriage was teetering on the brink of divorce. Even if these accusations aren’t entirely true, they’re still going to hurt Palin’s planned presidential campaign. That and the fact that she’s, as McCain campaign workers so eloquently put it, inept, ignorant, and egocentric.

An office worker from her job as an accountant with a health care company because she didn’t follow the general principles of email etiquette. She would often send emails with whole sentences in capital letters and key phrases highlighted in red or bolded. Her employer felt the emails were “provocative” and an employment tribunal found that the way she wrote emails caused an unhealthy workplace. However, that same tribunal awarded the woman $17,000 NZD for wrongful dismissal. The lesson from this is that pissing people off with improper email etiquette is a good way to get a quick payout.

A big stink has been raised over a new law proposed in Honolulu about BO. The Honolulu City Council is considering making it illegal to have “odours that unreasonably disturb others or interfere with their use of the transit system.” Violation of the proposed law could result in a $500 fine and 6 months in prison. The proposed law has been temporarily shelved over concerns of subjective judgement of odours. However, two councillors are planning to make revisions and reintroduce the proposed law later this year. I haven’t been to Hawaii but I would imagine that it’s so hot and humid that there’s no way that you couldn’t sweat and smell bad after being outside for 5 minutes.

A 69-year-old Missouri woman forced an airplane to abort its landing attempt after walking out onto the runway and firing a gun at it. When the woman was arrested, she had a loaded .22-calibre handgun in her pants pocket. She was upset because she felt the plane flew too close to her house. Clearly she had sleep deprivation because one person with a small handgun against an over 30,000-lbs. aircraft isn’t a fair fight.

The next prime minister of Japan may be nicknamed “The Alien” but he’s not the member of the family that’s closest to an alien. His wife claims to have had a close encounter on another planet. In a book published last year, the prime minister-elect’s wife wrote “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus.” The future prime minister is nicknamed “The Alien” because of his eyes but I think they may want to switch that nickname to his wife.

It doesn’t take much for people to want to throw a party but this is ridiculous. A couple in Britain recently threw a 50th birthday party for their fridge. They bought the fridge in August, 1959 and have kept it since. The only problem they had with it over that time was a broken thermostat which nearly spelled the end of the fridge because the manufacturer of their fridge stopped making fridges and parts over 30 years ago. Friends and family have suggested that the couple should get rid of the fridge but I think it’ll be alright. If you remember Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, old fridges can keep you safe in the event of a nuclear bombing.