It looks like the rumors about American Idol judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj hating each other are true. According to TMZ, Minaj snapped and cursed out Carey during a recent audition. After a disagreement over a contestant's peformance, Minaj said:

The University of Tennessee had quite the scandal last week when a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was accused of butt chugging wine. The alleged butt chugger was hospitalized with a reported .4 BAC, and the fraternity was eventually suspended. Today, the entire fraternity held a press conference to deny accusations that the accused butt chugger, Alexander P. Broughton, actually butt chugged any wine.

Way back in 2007, conservative bloggers went wild over then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's so-called "quiet riots" speech at Hampton Unversity, a historically black college in Virginia. For all the right-wing consternation over Obama's address, which included a shout-out to controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the future president's words were mostly benign, the kind of pro-black, inspirational speech black politicians give to large audiences of black people as a matter of course. Yes, the speech did contain a few uses of the term "quiet riot," but they were in reference to the daily indignities under which many blacks in America suffer, not calls to arms.

Patton Oswalt will join the cast of Justified next season. Judging from his Twitter, he's a longtime fan of the show

Matt Drudge got the five-alarm siren GIF out for "Obama's other race speech" — a lid-blowing, election-rocking video that was supposed to be the right's answer to Mother Jones' secret fundraiser footage of Mitt Romney.

This woman will know, once she gets arrested.

It doesn't have its own Tumblr or Twitter accounts — yet — but this Associated Press photo of Mitt Romney standing shoulder to shoulder with staff members at a Denver Chipotle earlier today clearly has that memetic quality that the Internet craves.

Halloween is less than a month away, which means it's time to start scrambling for a menu of thematic treats you can lay out on a spread for all the sexy devils, sexy pirates, sexy references to current events, and whatever other sexy things your kids' classmates will be dressed as when they descend upon your home for party time.

Sinister, which opens wide on Oct. 12, has a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this posting. Granted, it's early still, and only 20 reviews are in (notorious horror hater Roger Ebert has yet to weigh in), but the film is inspiring gushing notices. There's no question that Scott Derrickson's film is among the best horror films of the year, but that is faint praise because it's been a really shitty year for the genre.

Of the "Stoner Dog" meme, the website Meme Generator says, "it is very difficult not to look at this meme and burst out laughing immediately."

Is this the least interesting AP story of 2012? Christ, let's hope so.

Upsetting photos have surfaced showing in great detail the extent of a severe laceration sustained recently by an 11-year-old male orca at SeaWorld San Diego.

A new report from Radar Online alleges that the reason Britney Spears hasn't been responding to your texts or leaving comments when you check in to Saad's Halal on Foursquare is that both her Internet and cell phone usage are "heavily monitored" to protect her from any negative influences like you and your drunk momma and that skateboard crew you roll around with. Also, her former manager says drug-sniffing dogs found crystal meth in her house once.

Boring desks and soul-sucking overhead lamps can often prohibit a person from achieving true office or apartment zen. Below are ten ingenious and multi-functional pieces of furniture created by designers who obviously know how to take a fresh idea to the next level. Will they fit in your apartment? Perhaps not. Are they fun to look at? Oh, yes.

Here is Kara Alongi, the 16-year-old whose fake tweet about being kidnapped set off an internet firestorm, caught by a surveillance camera at the Rahway station in New Jersey on Sunday night. The picture was taken at 6:34 P.M., just about fifteen minutes after she had tweeted: "There is somone in my house call 911." Police have learned that she bought a ticket to Penn Station, New York that night, confirming their suspicion that she was a runaway, not a kidnap victim. They're still looking for her. As of this writing, Kara Alongi has 109,000 followers on Twitter.

Actor Vin Diesel has one of the biggest pages on Facebook: 34,883,564 likes. "How's he doing it?" Mashable wonders. "Simple: authenticity... authentic communication usually wins out over boring, boilerplate content." Authentic communication, and inspirational image macros, and photoshops of Diesel's face on a dragon.

What indie fame means for Grizzly Bear members' quality of life is fascinatingly explored in New York's band profile.

In a special four-minute comment that aired during this morning's news broadcast on La Crosse, Wisconsin's CBS affiliate WKBT, news anchor/reporter Jennifer Livingston responded to a viewer who wrote in to the station to chide Livingston for not providing "a suitable example for this community's young people, girls in particular," by appearing on television despite being overweight.

Based on numbers alone, you could look at Solange Knowles as this era's answer to La Toya Jackson (although even La Toya went Top 40 on the U.S. R&B singles chart a few times). She is the decidedly less successful sibling of a musical icon (Beyoncé, duh), although the desperation that tainted her earlier work (even her relatively respected sophomore album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams) has by now evaporated.

A Facebook photo of a handgun posted on Friday by Brad Staats, the Republican nominee for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District, has stirred controversy over its accompanying caption, which concludes with the words "welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama."