Let the jokes begin — as long as it’s cutting humor. The Lizzie Borden museum has gotten the ax.

Owners of the 40 Whacks Museum in Salem, Mass., have closed up after 2½ years in business, the victim of high rent and utility costs.

Locals also questioned the museum’s location in Salem, since Borden whacked her father and stepmother in nearby Fall River.

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A Catholic school in Canada has no place for Nazis. Or gays.

Members of the Halton Catholic District School Board are feeling the heat after barring students from forming a gay social-justice group.

Board director Alice Anne Lemay reportedly explained:

“We don’t have Nazi groups either. It’s not in accordance with the teachings of the church.

“If they wanted to have a club outside of school, fine.”

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Wake up and smell the century and a half of science!

MIT, celebrating its 150th anniversary, showed off a host off oddball tech artifacts in a new museum exhibit.

Displays include key 1930s research on how to make the perfect cup of coffee, and notes on what happens to pianos dropped from five stories.

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A West Virginia man was busted for having a stolen car — hot wheels he admitted to renting from a woman in exchange for meth, cops said.

Jerry Wayne Means said he shelled out two grams of meth to score the Oldsmobile Intrigue.

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A woman arrested for alleged DUI told cops she was “taking her child to school” — during a midnight joy ride.

Tammi M. Benning, 33, was booked in Alliance, Ohio, with her 5-year-old kid in the car, cops said.

She allegedly caused an accident around midnight and drove away.