Chapter 3: No arrest has been made, but the Corvallis Police and the FBI have identified a suspect in the "Arson at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center" case: Cody S. Crawford. His previous charges in Oregon include blocking traffic in Sherwood while intoxicated and throwing "a cup of urine" at a corrections officer.

Goddamn Senate: On Saturday, the Senate rejected President Obama's proposal to extend Bush's tax cuts to all but the wealthiest Americans. If Congress can't get its shit together, the tax breaks will expire for everyone on Dec. 31. The rate in the lowest income bracket would increase from 10 to 15 percent, and the rate in the highest income bracket would increase from 35 to 39.6 percent.

Whoa, WikiLeaks is really freaking out the government: Applicants to the State Department have reportedly been warned not to discuss WikiLeaks on their social media accounts, and soldiers in Iraq who are reading mainstream news coverage of the leaks are arriving at a web page informing them that they're about to break the law.

In other WikiLeaks news: PayPal, WikiLeaks' largest source for donations, has cut them off.

I never noticed: Apparently, commercials are louder than regular television programming and "consumers have been asking for a solution to this problem for decades," said Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Menlo Park). On Saturday Congress passed a bill that would bring the decibel level down, and when Obama signs it into law, Eshoo said, it will "bring relief to millions". Sounds like Bean-O.

Not-fake car bombs: Things are still bad in Iraq. 15 people died in Baghdad Saturday morning. The total death toll of 347 in Iraq in November is a 20 percent decline from October's numbers.

Charles Manson has a cell phone! Prison officials found it under his mattress. Check out a voicemail recording of Manson's best Tom Waits impression.