When outspokenly liberal actor Jake Gyllenhaal suddenly announced on Twitter that he was endorsing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, it raised digital eyebrows across the web.

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will host the 2013 Golden Globes. Needless to say, a much better choice than Seth MacFarlane.

In an interview with CNN tonight, Hilary Clinton claimed responsibility for the security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya before the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. In doing so, she took some pressure off President Obama and Vice President Biden for what's become a heated campaign issue.

In a video interview last Friday, Ethel Kennedy offered another ringing endorsement of her grandson Conor Kennedy's girlfriend, Taylor Swift. In the past, Ethel has limited herself to enthusiastic "I hope so"s when asked about Swift (Will Conor and Taylor get married? "I hope so!" Will Swift move next door? "I hope so!"). But at a charity golf tournament last Friday, Ethel practically gushed when an interviewer inquired about the constantly surprised pop star:

Everyone can stop worrying: debate expert President Barack Obama has finally weighed in on the Nicki Minaj-Mariah Carey American Idol feud. During an interview with something called "The Yo Show," the president said the following:

If you were a participant in that Zumba prostitution scandal in Maine, heads up; your name is about to be released.

While spending yesterday on Roosevelt Island with his sons, alleged serial party-crasher Bill Murray decided to take in a game of kickball.

British artist Damien Hirst has come under fire in recent days, either for killing too many or not nearly enough butterflies (depending on whom you ask) at a recreation of his 1991 exhibition In and Out of Love as part of a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London.

Randy Duke, a 20-year law enforcement vet, only has a few weeks to spend with his family before heading back to Afghanistan to train police officers, and he definitely didn't plan on spending most of it outside his son's school holding a sign saying "Bullying Victims are Punished Here."

Great American pot-stirrer patriot Glenn Beck has finally discovered his purpose in life: to make jeans. Like so many great homophobes before him (see also: none), Beck has gone and opened himself a fashion house.

Michael Brutsch, the Texas man behind the notorious Reddit troll Violentacrez, was fired this weekend, one day after Gawker outed him in an article Friday. This is not surprising, as Brutsch had built his online reputation on distributing pictures of underaged girls in bikinis and being offensive as possible.

Time's Mark Halperin has made himself useful for once by obtaining, and publishing, a copy of the 21-page memorandum of understanding that the Obama and Romney campaigns negotiated with the Commission on Presidential Debates establishing the rules governing this month's presidential and vice presidential face-offs. The upshot: Both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening.

Science says: it doesn't matter how you run, just run fast. And wear some fucking shoes.

Adele's "Someone Like You" is No. 22 on the Co-operative Funeralcare's chart of songs played at funerals, according to NME. Who knows how scientific the polling of "the UK's leading funeral director" is, but this does point to the fact that at least more than one person has selected a song whose narrator describes her object of affection as ultimately replaceable to play in tribute to the deceased.

Last week, two NYPD officers arrived at the Aliya Institute on East New York Ave. on the border of Crown Heights in Brooklyn. They were responding to reports of a trespassing homeless man, later identified as Ehud H. Halevi. Halevi argued briefly with the police, and then, as you can see from the video above, they beat the shit out of him — punching him, hitting him with a nightstick, and pepper spraying him. He was later charged with assault on a police officer.

After myriad rumors and alleged sightings, star-crossed lovers Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were finally spotted hobnobbing with each other in wild by someone with a camera (see photo here).

Kim Kardashian is that girl who takes iPhone shots of herself wearing a push-up bra in the dressing room of a Victoria's Secret, then texts them to all her male friends and asks, "Do u like my eyeshadow in dis pic?" Here she is dressed as a sexy peanut on a leopard print background. Do u like her eyeshadow in dis pic?

Ladies. There is something seriously wrong with your eyebrows.

Earlier this year in Entertainment Weekly, Mark Harris wrote about the "new blink-and-you'll-miss-it style" of coming out that is supposedly all the rage amongst celebs today. Outdoing the likes of even Anderson Cooper, the creator of "the hardest workout put on DVD," Insanity, has crafted the easiest way of coming out: the retweet.

Romney and Obama aren't going to have much to talk about in Tuesday night's town hall-style debate, as cardboard circle manufacturer Pizza Hut has rescinded its request to have an attendee ask either candidate "Sausage or Pepperoni?" during the live telecast.