Maine, home to blueberries and LL Bean, is not a place known for its historic pockets of Afrocentrism. Out of Maine's 1.3 million residents, more than 94 percent are white, but that doesn't mean there are no black people there. Alas, don't tell the Republican Party state Chairman Charlie Webster that.

Whether you have a lucrative gig blogging about coupons or your work-from-home status is merely temporary, laptop + jammies does not a home office make. Welcome to the Business Casual series, a triptych of posts about how to stay on task at work — whether you're onsite, offsite, or at home. Created in conjunction with the join.me crew, Business Casual is your one-stop shop for your modern workplace advice needs. This first installment is all about the glorious phenomenon known as "working from home."

Last month, the watchdog group Better Georgia managed to record nearly a full hour of a four-hour closed door meeting of Republican state senators which was convened by Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) to discuss President Obama's efforts to brainwash Americans on behalf of the United Nations.

Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and other forms of American health food, is currently the target of strike by its workers. If you're interested in the particulars of the issues at hand, the union's side can be found here, and the company's side can be found here. ("The walkouts began after bakery union employees rejected a unilaterally imposed contract that included wage and benefits cuts of 27 percent to 32 percent.") Regardless, as a fan of artificially flavored cakes, you may be interested to know that management has threatened to shut down the entire company if a deal is not reached today.

How were you occupying yourself in this trying time? Could you eat? Sleep? Did white wine even taste sweet anymore? Whether you were Team Hoda and Kathie Lee or Team Chelsea, you can finally unclench your butt cheeks and relax.

A survey shows that college students are all too aware that college is too fucking expensive for college students.

Guy Fieri can't imagine anyone disliking his food, so he's concluded that New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells' scathing — and scathingly funny — review of his Times Square restaurant must be due to a personal grudge Wells is holding against him.

Big Boi on Andre 3000's absence from his upcoming album: "He said he had to do some Gillette shit. No for real."

Longtime Gawker readers may recall a bygone era in which Laurel Touby, founder of media job board-etc. site Mediabistro, was a regular Gawker "character," famous for her feather boas and inability to use email properly. After she sold Mediabistro for $23 million in 2007, she became more famous for being a Can You Believe The Lady Who Started Mediabistro Is Now Super Rich, What The Fuck Is This World Coming To? Well. Years have passed. Now you must hear all about Laurel Touby's multimillion-dollar apartment.

Operation Pillar of Defense (or Pillar of Cloud if you're Israeli), the worst conflict between Israel and Gaza since 2008, escalated overnight as the IDF continued to strike dozens of targets inside the Strip, resulting in dozens of rockets being fired by Palestinian militants at Israeli towns and villages.

Scandal Week continues: Robert De Niro called Jay-Z "rude" at Leonardo DiCaprio's birthday party.

James Holmes reportedly attempted suicide Tuesday, but sources say the attempts were "half-hearted."

According to The Smoking Gun, Sheldon Stephens is the man who accused Elmo voice actor Kevin Clash of having a sexual relationship with him when he was under age. Yesterday, Stephans recanted his allegations but not before the scandal forced Clash to take a hiatus from Sesame Street. Clash insisted throughout the ordeal that the relationship occurred after Stephens had turned 18.

Like its energy drink brethren Monster Energy, there's a chance 5-Hour Energy might kill you. According to the New York Times, the FDA is investigating 13 deaths over the past four years that might be linked to consumption of the tiny, highly-caffeinated energy drink.

Mystery solved. Frederick Humpries is the FBI agent who helped start the investigation that led to this whole Petraeus affair scandal, but, more importantly, he's also the FBI agent who emailed a shirtless picture of himself to Jill Kelley.

For a group that claims to love animals, PETA sure does act jealous when some wolves get invited to a fancy celebrity party while its invite gets "lost" (up a butt).

Though he's had plenty of time to reflect on the result of last week's presidential election, GOP nominee Mitt Romney, much like his running mate, is still refusing to admit that his defeat might have had more to do with his own platform than with that of his opponent.

This gay demon exorcism is nowhere nearly as exciting or hilarious as this one, but the interview that follows with the ex-gay exorcist, Prophet Tejanni Campbell, and Bishop Ernest Johnson is riveting, particularly for the following two exchanges:

As the Elmo Sex Scandal — one of the top two current Sex Scandals in the United States — draws to an anticlimactic close, parents across the country have been left wondering: how can I explain to my children that Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who provides Elmo with life has been accused of having sex with a 16-year-old, and furthermore that the man in question (now 23) recanted his story within days of the initial accusation?

Bono whipped out a Bill Clinton impersonation at a speech in DC. He "Still Hasn't Found [The Accent] He's Looking For."