From Jim Nintzel: As expected, both the defense and prosecutors agreed at a hearing today that Jared Lee Loughner is not competent to stand trial.

He will be transferred into the custody of the U.S. Attorney General's Office for treatment to be restored to competency.

The next hearing in the case is slated for Sept. 21.

The hearing was briefly interrupted when Loughner shouted, "Thank you for the freak show. She died in front of me," during a discussion on records releases.

More to come shortly.

In news that's probably only exciting to people with an overwhelming sentimentality for when they used to show music videos on VH1 (next up: a Mob Wives marathon!), 90's metacommentary sensation Pop Up Video is returning to the network with sixty new episodes to debut this fall. Of course, the difference between the show's heyday and now is that everyone can comment on everything these days via social media, so maybe the show's snarky infographic take on pop music might not be quite as exciting. Still, anything vaguely music related on a channel that used to actually be music themed is a nice touch.

[Hollywood Reporter]

Thankfully, the police tracked down the driver who allegedly struck a bicyclist on Swan and drove off Friday night:

The Tucson Police Department received a tip regarding the vehicle possibly involved in the hit and run collision that left a 23-year-old male in serious condition on Friday May 20, 2011. Traffic Detectives conducted a follow-up investigation on the information received and located the owner of the vehicle. Based off the evidence collected, the owner of the vehicle 21 year-old Abigail A. Allin was charged with one count each of Leaving the Scene of a Serious Injury Collision (at fault driver), Causing Serious Injury with a Motor Vehicle while Driver License Suspended, and Tampering with Physical Evidence. She was booked into the Pima County Jail early this morning.

[Tucson Police Department]

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• Plaster kids' heads are OK on eBay, but not a real, live child.

She was busted when one man bid on the child, thinking it was a joke, and the woman actually accepted the bid.

That story and more are up this week on Rynski’s Shattered Reality radio show on Party934.com and FM 94.9 in Hudson Valley, N.Y.

Next show is Wednesday, May 25 (today!) and every Wednesday online at Party934.com. Showtime is noon in Arizona, 3 p.m. EST.

Party 934 is a radio alternative for listeners sick of stations that play one song followed by 500 commercials.

Gems and jewelry songs are once again sparkling on our lineup and we have plenty of dazzling tunes to play.

Thanks! to all who keep the song requests coming.

An update on yesterday’s reports (here and here) on the lawsuit to block the Brewer administration’s plan to reduce low-income Arizonans’ eligibility for insurance companies through AHCCCS:

The Supreme Court said it would consider attorney Tim Hogan’s petition to block Brewer’s changes, but not until September—which is several months after the changes are set to go into effect.

Hogan says that he could ask the court to accelerate that schedule or seek an injunction at the Superior Court level, but he’s waiting to see whether the federal government grants the state a waiver to reduce the AHCCCS eligibility standards.

“I’m not sure that’s worth doing until we know what the federal government is going to do,” Hogan said. “You have to let this mature a little."

The timing of this is suspicious, as is the state's off-and-on desire to avoid federal interference. Mess with immigration policy and we'll dump whatever amount of money it takes into the fight for self-determination. When the voters approve legislation that right-wing social conservative types don't like but seems to work under a memo by Eric Holder, cave as quickly as possible:

Gov. Jan Brewer plans to put Arizona's new medical marijuana plan on hold as she seeks guidance from a federal court on whether state employees regulating the program could face prosecution.

Brewer said Tuesday that state Attorney General Tom Horne will file a lawsuit Friday seeking a declaratory judgment about the legality of Arizona's medical marijuana program.

The program went into effect last month, but isn't up and running yet.

According to Tom Horne, dispensary licenses will be on hold until a decision is made, although he could not predict when that might be.

According to Kansas state representative Pete DeGraaf women should plan ahead just in case they become pregnant from a rape. Not an exaggeration. Not from The Onion. That's actually what he said.

Rape is often called the ultimate violation of self. A crime of absolute contempt for personal integrity, leaving the women caught in its wreckage to labor under the trauma for years. What reprehensible event could possibly have the same consequences as the spiritual dead zone rape victims are left in?

Well, getting a flat tire, according to Kansas state Rep. Pete DeGraaf.

Last Friday, Kansas legislators approved a ban on insurance companies offering abortion coverage as part of their general health plans. The one exception: when a woman's life is at risk.

DeGraaf, who is in his first term and who is an associate pastor, also called for banning coverage for abortions of rape pregnancies. (Women could get around this if they purchased separate, "abortion-only policies.")

During the House discussion there was predictably some disagreement over whether excluding rape pregnancies from coverage was perhaps the sort of callous treatment a recently violated woman shouldn't have to deal with. Here's DeGraaf's response to Rep. Barbara Bollier's challenge, as reported by the McPherson Sentinel:

Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican who supports the bill, told her: "We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life?"

Bollier asked him, "And so women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with pregnancy?"

DeGraaf drew groans of protest from some House members when he responded, "I have a spare tire on my car."

"I also have life insurance," he added. "I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for."

Take a moment to appreciate how far Justin Bieber will go to convey the "fruity gourmand" essence of his new fragrance, "Someday": the commercial was "filmed in a gravity-free cabin of a Boeing 737 NASA training jet", according to Us Weekly. The ad doesn't make any sense, but it was expensive, and that's all that matters.

I wasn't the biggest fan of the first Bon Iver record, famously recorded in a cabin, but it's possible hanging out with Kanye West led to a little more musical variety rubbing off on the guy, but even still, covering Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" on Jimmy Fallon's show is still a little strange, even if it was ranked 331st on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Justin Vernon does a great job with it, although I might be biased by Vernon starting off the cover with a bit of Leon Russell's "A Song For You".

This hits a little too close to home, for sure:

On Jan. 8, 2011, we as a society were shocked and dismayed when 19 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona's 8th District, were shot during a public meeting outside a local supermarket. Six people were killed and Rep. Giffords suffered a near-fatal head wound. In the wake of this national tragedy, there seemed to be a clarion call to have an open dialogue about gun control, a thoughtful conversation about the way this country treats its mentally ill, and a long overdue discussion about the consequences of overly inflammatory political rhetoric.

Well, seeing as I haven't heard so much as a word about any of those topics in the past three months, I'm going to go ahead and assume that at some point we thoroughly explored those complex issues, resolved them, and are now living our lives based on the lessons we learned from the in-depth conversations I assume we had.

After all, if the crucial, imperative questions raised by this shooting—and there were many—hadn't been satisfactorily answered, we'd still be discussing them, right?