Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In—a kind of workplace feminism manifesto—has inspired a range of reactions from critics. Some were positive; some less so. But none was as negative as the response Sandberg spokeswoman and former Facebook flack Brandee Barker had for Katherine Losse, an erstwhile Zuckerberg speechwriter whose rigorously critical take on Sandberg's book was published in Dissent this week:

"A S. Carolina woman stabbed her boyfriend, then threw his prosthetic leg in the yard to prevent him from chasing her."

Sex scandals in the upper echelons of the yoga world are endlessly compelling: The highest aspirations of body and mind collide with the basest instincts in terrible ways. And the guru worship among some practitioners can add a creepy undertone of cultishness to what would otherwise be run-of-the-mill awful behavior by dudes. The latest high profile sex scandal in the yoga industry centers on a new lawsuit filed against Bikram Choudhury, the 67-year-old founder of the popular Bikram Yoga franchise, alleging sexual harassment and assault.

The defense for James Holmes has offered a guilty plea and life in prison in order to avoid the death penalty.

It was a concern about being typecast that ultimately led Jessica Brown Findlay, AKA Downton Abbey's Lady Sybil Crawley, to exit in dramatic fashion from the popular series midway into the third season.

Well, they did say that sooner or later God (of The Great Flood fame) would come to punish the world for the sins of the gays (marriage in particular), but who knew He would be so damn boring about it? Hours ago, CNN contributor Jeffery Toobin was lightly tapped by a possessed umbrella while proclaiming that "DOMA" may be "in trouble."

Chris Brown wants you to know that he is a passionate, positive, self-actualizing young man. In a series of in-studio interviews he arranged in advance of his upcoming single, he sold this nice-guy image hard.

Among the people who "won" the opportunity to pay $1,500 to Google for a first shot at Glass: author Gary Shteyngart.

Officials at a special needs school in the South East England town Godalming are facing disciplinary action after it was revealed that a student was intentionally allowed to inflict harm upon themselves using razor blades handed to them by the school.

America, a nation composed primarily of suckers, is always ready to fall headfirst for this or that new "health trend." Some are outright scams, while others are merely true facts that have been manipulate to render them indistinguishable from scams in practice. Behold: protein.

Just one day after hearing arguments regarding California's gay marriage ban, the Supreme Court is back in session to consider the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. DOMA, as it's commonly called, is the act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1996, that restricts the federal government from acknowledging same-sex marriages, even if those unions are recognized in the states of their origin.

Joann and Mike Moser weren't even mad when they found out their 2-year-old son Kyle was using fingernail clippers to break into his sister's room late at night to steal a stuffed unicorn.

A bus driver in China narrowly escaped being impaled by a large blue lamppost that slammed into the windshield of his bus as he was conducting his daily route.

Purveyor of celebrity-themed puns and hybrid creatures, street artist Hanksy has adorned Los Angeles with yet another creative cast of characters. As a sort of antithesis to the serious sanctimoniousness of some street art, Hanksy prefers to make jokes that involve Will Ferrell Cats or Nicolas Cage Against the Machine.

Ten years ago today, Michael Bloomberg made it illegal for selfish smokers to stink up our boozing. World's Best Nanny!

If your broke, unknown boyfriend paints all over your apartment, don't paint over it. He might turn out to be Basquiat.

If your Netflix has been slow lately, it's because of a bunch of pissed-off Dutch guys in a five-story bunker. A massive online war between a web hosting company based out of a NATO bunker in Holland and an international anti-spam organization has spilled over to the rest of the internet, causing widespread delays—and potentially escalating to the point where email and online banking could become inaccessible.

Robert Rodriguez, multi-talented action/adventure movie auteur is announcing his latest collaboration: Project Green Screen. In partnership with BlackBerry, Rodriguez is putting the finishing touches on his new short film. Seems like a normal, not-newsworthy thing for a filmmaker to do, right? Wrong! He's actually asking his fans to create these finishing touches, because he's innovative like that.

Watch every Woody Allen stammer ever in 44 minutes. If you can make it to Annie Hall, you should get some sort of prize.

Yesterday it was reported that Justin Bieber was being investigated for battery after a neighbor claimed Bieber made physical contact with him during an argument that took place on the singer's property. (The neighbor's wife told KTLA that her husband went to Justin Bieber's home to complain because the 19-year-old had been racing his new Ferrari around their residential block early Tuesday morning.)