Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist not worth reading, is one of America's foremost advocates of Racism as Common Sense. "Please," we beg her, "won't you offer your take on the shooting of a white man by some black youths, in order to unwittingly expose your own prejudices?" Yes, she will.

A group of twenty-five black family members and their friends say they were denied service at South Carolina restaurant after a white patron complained about feeling "threatened" by their presence.

Tina Turner is ripening into an excellent eccentric old lady.

Media watchdog Howard Kurtz’s new Fox News show, MeD1@B#ZZ, is co-branded with media corporation Microsoft.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to improve its backlog of hundreds of thousands of claims from injured veterans. Meanwhile, the veterans themselves struggle with physical and mental trauma. These are true stories from U.S. military veterans about their battle on the home front.

An astounding spec ad for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class featuring the most incredible twist ending ever devised to promoting a car's on-board collision-prevention-assist system is ruffling some stuffy feathers at the headquarters of Mercedes parent company Daimler AG.

Up in the High Sierra of Yosemite National Park today, a monstrous wildfire is racing through 200 square miles of dense piney forest. The "Rim Fire" is only one of about fifty major wildfires across the American West today, but everyone has at least heard of the majestic Yosemite Valley with its glacier-carved Half Dome and summer traffic jams of vacationers seeking waterfalls and hamburgers, so this is our official Natural Disaster of the week.

The Onion has this ongoing thing where it pretends to be much older than it really is. Though it probably wasn't founded in the 18th century by a German immigrant named Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel, there is good reason to believe The Onion may actually be from the future.

While driving behind a truck and chatting on a cellphone, one motorist decides to make a stunningly dangerous left-hand turn, and just avoids crashing into oncoming traffic.

Happy Labor Day!

Searching for a way to draw attention to the empowering message of International Go Topless Day, Canadian newspaper columnist and radio talk show host Lori Welbourne decided the best way to go about that was to go topless herself.

It seems everyone hated whatever it was Miley Cyrus was doing at last night's VMAs, but MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski really, really hated it.

Once upon a time, Americans sat together at tables thrice daily for "meals," during which nutritious food was consumed. Today, however, market research indicates that we prefer to simply have processed meat products shoveled into our mouths constantly throughout the day. By conveyor belt, if possible.

A favorite of music fans, critics, and audience-reaction cams alike, Taylor Swift is the belle of any awards-show ball. She shows up, she responds to what's happening onstage with the finesse, subtlety, and attention-hunger of a mime. Even if she isn't performing on any given night, she's still performing. Case in point happened during last night's VMAs when Swift danced like everybody was watching, loved the awards-show medium like she'll never be hurt (again...by Kanye), sang like everyone could hear her even though she wasn't miked, and lived like Brooklyn is heaven on earth.

It all started last Wednesday when [redacted] had her beloved bike stolen just outside her friend's house in Yaletown, Vancouver.

Leave it to Kevin Spacey, the first actor in the Edinburgh International Television Festival's 37 year history to deliver the keynote James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, to outline everything that's wrong with the mindset of today's TV execs.

The latest drop in the ceaseless downpour of scandalous NSA stories was the revelation that the agency spied on the U.N. That's a grave breach of trust by any standard, a serious scandal. But some vain media cynics will not stop championing the NSA no matter what it does.

When Kristin Chenoweth invited fan Sarah Horn on stage to sing the Wicked duet "For Good" at the Hollywood Bowl last Friday, she had no idea she was about to blow some minds — including her own.

Former secretaries of state: They're just like us, right down to the emotional affairs with Romanian diplomats and the looking like dorks while dancing with your friends.

When Fred Stobaugh's wife Lorraine passed away earlier this year, he felt he needed to say goodbye one last time.