Cashing in, and more

Good week for:

Cashing in, after Sarah Palin and a collaborator finished her 400-page memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, just four months after she resigned the Alaska governor’s office. Her publisher moved up the publishing date from Spring 2010 to Nov. 17 of this year and announced a first-print run of 1.5 million copies.

C-sections, after an Indonesian woman gave birth to a 19-pound, 3-ounce baby boy, Akbar. He’s the size of a typical 12-month-old, and, yes, was delivered by Caesarean section.

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Taste, after Kings Island amusement park, in Mason, Ohio, took down its “Halloween Haunt” display of skeletons of dead celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, and slain NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his late mistress. “We weren’t intending for it to be distasteful,” said a park spokesman.

Bad week for:

Staying on task, after 16 Polk County, Fla., drug investigators who raided a home in search of drugs were caught on a security camera playing the suspect’s Wii Bowling for nine straight hours.

Asking for whipped cream, after five female baristas at an Everett, Wash., espresso shop were accused of prostitution after allegedly charging customers up to $80 dollars to watch them strip and perform lewd acts while making coffee drinks.

Indiscretion, after Tufts University in Massachusetts found it necessary to ban sex in dorm rooms while a student’s roommate is present. Some students were complaining they were “uncomfortable with what their roommates were doing in the room,” explained a school official.