Robin Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I. have preemptively sued the children of Marvin Gaye over a threatened lawsuit that "Blurred Lines" copies Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up."

“I think we should teach him to use his privilege to his advantage.”

A German study has found that people who have the most sex also make the most money, further depressing the world's low-paid plebes who don't get any.

"Do any wounds require avuncular tending quite like those of an investment banker?" NY Times reporter Ginia Bellafante's description of the Bloomberg legacy is outstanding. Forget your bike lanes and waterfront parks, his mayoralty was all about "the tireless coddling of the overclass."

Almost a thousand supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi took refuge inside a mosque overnight, after becoming surrounded by government security forces. The tense situation finally came to a head only moments ago, when security forces fired tear gas into the mosque, and began dragging people out, amid reports of gunfire. The BBC is now reporting that all protesters have been cleared from the mosque, and the majority have been arrested.

Color Me Badd broke up. Spoiler alert: They were back together.

One day after startup founder and turbo-bro Peter Shih ripped apart his new home of San Francisco in a blog post, calling the city, essentially, a hellhole full of uppity and ugly women, "transvestites," and grotesque homeless people, the City by the Bay is blasting back.

There was a Gawker redesign this week, so that predictably ruffled a few feathers. Others got their feathers in a twist over getting blocked, but they were sure to sign out of Gawker with a big old flourish. Our most lurid correspondent has comments about Egypt and spray-paint and another writer was so riled up that he came in close internet contact with an article about DJs. Read these and more in our weekly hate mail repository.

I'm currently reading James Bamford's definitive history of the NSA, Body of Secrets, because I find that scaring the shit out of myself right before bed helps me sleep better. Amid the book's disheartening narrative of our country's endlessly-expanding surveillance apparatus and how the government has found new and exciting ways to abuse it, I learned about something amazing: The United States National Radio Quiet Zone, a massive plot of land where wi-fi and cell phones are banned, that is nonetheless a hotbed of NSA eavesdropping.

TMZ has photos of what it's calling the "weed jungle" discovered outside Heidi Fleiss' Pahrump, Nevada, home last week. The former Hollywood pimp was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, amongst other things, for having 392 pot plants growing at her house.

Welcome to Annotate This, where we gather reviews, trailers, and annotate the posters for movies coming out this week. It will help you decide what to avoid, what to see, and what to pretend to see. Click on the image above to add your comments to the mix.

In one of the final scenes of Zachary Heinzerling's documentary, Cutie and the Boxer, the 80-year-old artist Ushio Shinohara looks over a book of his works entitled Love is a Roarrrr!!. He likes the final word, but says he doesn't understand why it's preceded by a comparison to love. "Who put 'love is'?" Ushio asks his wife, another artist, named Noriko. She points to herself. "Why? Because I think so: Love is a roar. I found out by experience in my life. Love is a roar."

Jennifer Rubin is a professional liar. From her perch in the Washington Post’s Opinions section, she publishes lie after lie after lie after lie after lie — too many for any one person to possibly catalog. (Though some have tried.) How does she hang on at the Post? This week the paper’s former ombudsman, Patrick B. Pexton, supplied a helpful clue.

Doug Sehorne, a hardcore King James Baptist Evangelist who describes himself as an "old-fashioned bible preacher," recently released his latest e-book entitled Bible Principles of Child Discipline from the Book of Proverbs).

San Antonio City Councilwoman Elisa Chan is entangled in a homophobia scandal after a former aide secretly recorded her and other staffers bashing gays as "disgusting" and saying gay marriage is a slippery slope toward legalized incest and bestiality.

"Sometimes I just think, Are you serious that I'm saying this right now, that I have to talk about what is going on in America today?" director Lee Daniels told Indiewire earlier this week about his new film The Butler. Indeed, his film's survey of major events in the struggle for black civil rights in America feels simplified, if not dumbed-down—if not outright condescending.

In perhaps the most Friday video since, well, "Friday," The Price is Right contestant Premal Shah gets called to come on down and suddenly finds carried toward the stage by a throng of excitable college kids.

It's Friday afternoon. Feeling good? Excited for the weekend? That's nice. Let's look at this list of men who make giant bags of money to play pre-recorded tracks in public and see if you still feel that way.

A New York man wanted for several crimes, including, most recently, felony violation of probation, was apprehended thanks to a terrible parking job.