For the next few weeks, we'll be evaluating many of the new fall shows as they air. Last night, the other gay show premiered. In addition to Partners being the new New Normal, it's also the new Will & Grace since that show's creators, Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, devised this one too. Double the pleasure, then.

Trend science is a delicate art. The progression of a group or a place or an activity from "strange" to "offbeat" to "trendy" to "hateful" is one that can often only be precisely decoded by experts such as ourselves, or whatever other assholes have opinions on the internet. For example: we know for sure that urban farming is now a trend that can be classified as fully fauxhemian, and irrationally mocked accordingly. But what about kids who go to college, and then become farmers, out there in the country, where the farms are? Are they proper targets for our self-loathing turned outwards, yet?

The Coen brothers have signed a deal with FX to adapt their Academy Award-winning film Fargo into a TV series of the same name.

In a disturbing flipside to this story, an adult Chinese pop star has taken to the social networking site Sina Weibo to declare his love for a preteen model and singer who claims she loves him back.

Any hip motherfucker worth his titanium hip knows that our nation's capital, Washington, DC, is also our nation's hipness capital, thanks to the young, hip vibe that permeates the city's air like the stench of a half-eaten half-smoke resting in the gutter outside of an upscale Half-Smoke Lounge that harkens back to DC's "gritty" old days, with $18 half-smokes.

Sarah Michelle Gellar just had another baby. Did you even know she was pregnant? She mentioned you two had lost touch.

"I thought I wasn't worthy. I was this big old joke," 16-year-old Whitney Kropp told The Detroit News about her selection to homecoming court.

At a recent tour stop in Louisville, KY, country music superstar Carrie Underwood spotted a 12-year-old fan in the crowd holding a sign asking her to be his first kiss.

The impending global pork shortage first reported two weeks ago is now "unavoidable," according to a press release from Britain's National Pig Association.

Chevy Chase is an asshole: this is nothing new.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad went on Piers Morgan Tonight to remind everyone that he still hates Israel and the gays.

Notable gasbag Newt Gingrich is still making noise, most recently in support of Missouri Senate candidate Todd "legitimate rape" Akin.

Amanda Bynes has broken up with you, Los Angeles. And that means she doesn't have to deal with your "rules" and "regulations" and suspended license hearings.

The infamous and inevitable 60 Minutes interviews with the Chosen Two aired on CBS last night. Neither candidate said anything that they had never said before and everyone walked away forgetting why they had opted to watch the predictably uninformative interviews in the first place. (Is 60 Minutes even still a thing?)

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong may be in rehab following an onstage meltdown, but he'll still be on The Voice.

Modern-day Liz Taylor and Amanda Bynes enemy Lindsay Lohan was rushed to the hospital for a lung infection last night.

Have you ever thought it might be cool to hang out with J. K. Rowling? Because the Harry Potter books shaped your childhood, or your children's childhood, or your parents' childhood (future babies), or because you love hanging out with millionaires, or because you have a fetish for older, soft-spoken white women with a touch of sadness about the eyes?

Sure, Barack Obama appears to be holding a slim but consistent lead in many reputable national polls. But what if we just changed those polls, so that Mitt Romney is winning? That's the theory behind UnSkewed Polls, a new site from conservative blogger Dean Chambers:

Watch the video before reading on.

Just when you thought you couldn't get any fatter.