The Justice Department has conceded that a year of your life is worth just shy of $47,000. While that may not sound like a lot to those of you who live in New York, or even just like your lives, it's a hell of a lot higher than the $5,000 per year they were originally trying to play ball with.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been given a pass by Irish officials after the recovering alcoholic was arrested for making a drunken scene last month at Dublin Airport—a wagon-tumble rendered all the more tragic when you factor in that he was in town for his 50-year-old mother's sudden death: