Image #1: Carcass of a very strange fish with monstrous teeth allegedly washed up on a beach in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Choose one: Real or Fake?

I know it sounds loony, but this is a direct quote attributed to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor currently being passed around via email:

I want to be perfectly clear about this next comment so that there is no mistaking my words to mean something other than what they plainly say: the time has come to end white male oppression by castrating every white male until they are no longer dominant in Western culture. That means forcible removal of their testicles. I realize the brutality of my comment, and I don’t know how to say it more clearly.

According to the same email, President Obama dismissed the remark, saying it was "taken out of context."

Reality check here...

A photo of Barack Obama apparently showing him staring at a young woman's derriere during the recent G8 summit has set jaws a-flapping and inspired a new name for the presidential anthem: "Tail to the Chief."

Pictures can be deceiving, though. News video of the same event tells a different story altogether.

The young woman in the photo has been variously identified as Mayara or Mayora Tavares of Brazil, by the way. The gentleman at Obama's side is the unmistakable Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France.

Read more about it:
• Obama: Baby Got Barack
• Video Clears Up Obama Photo

If you're still in a numerological frame of mind, you'll probably enjoy — and perhaps even find deep meaning in — TMZ's list of coincidences involving Michael Jackson and the number seven:

• Michael Jackson signed his will on 7/7/02.
• Michael Jackson's memorial was on 7/7/09 ... exactly 7 years after the will was signed.
• Michael Jackson's two biggest hits -- "Black & White" and "Billie Jean" — were each #1 for 7 weeks.
• Michael Jackson's three biggest albums — "Thriller," "Bad" and "Dangerous" — each produced 7 top 40 hits.
• Michael Jackson was the 7th of 9 children.
• Michael Jackson was born in 1958 ... 19 + 58 = 77.
• Michael Jackson died on the 25th ... 2 + 5 = 7.
• Michael Jackson has 7 letters in his first and last name.

Yaawwwwwwn.

Mathematicians say the odds of improbable numerical coincidences occurring in everyday life are far greater than most people realize. And the tendency to see meaningful patterns in random data is deeply ingrained in human nature.

Read more:
• Michael Jackson -- #7
• Coincidences: Remarkable or Random?
• Skeptic's Dictionary: Coincidences