A cache of hidden-camera videos of Mitt Romney, speaking at an off-the-record fundraiser sometime in the last few months, has emerged on YouTube and Mother Jones. Among other things, Romney claims that "47 percent of people will vote for [Obama] no matter what" because they "believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing," and that "it would be helpful to be Latino." The upshot: Mitt Romney in private is exactly the kind of entitled blowhard that you'd imagine based on his public persona.

While reporting on last week's Fall Harvest Festival in Platteville, Colorado, Fox 31 Denver News reporter Dan "Dano" Daru decided to take a moment during his live broadcast to make fun of a little kid in a stroller.

In court documents obtained by Court House News, Texas resident Julia Garcia claims Walmart employees ripped up her authentic 100 dollar bills and detained her without just cause for two hours despite confirming after the fact that the money was real.

Chief Keef's entrée into hip-hop earlier this year was a quick and unusual one. At 16, Keef had made a small name for himself on Chicago's south side with a handful of enthusiastic but poorly produced rap videos, the most promising of which was "I Don't Like." As its name portends, "I Don't Like" is a musical rundown of the things that chap Keef's hide, including bitch niggas, snitch niggas, and fake shoes. The video he recorded to accompany the song depicts him and his friends smoking a lot of weed, passing around a handgun, and dancing around his grandmother's house shirtless.

Mix master Hugh Atkin of "Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up" fame has pieced together yet another masterful mash-up, this time featuring President "MC 'Bama" rapping "U Didn't Build That" to the tune of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This."

Here's the first known picture of Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, the Coptic Christian filmmaker unmasked as the brains, so to speak, behind the Innocence of Muslims trailer that helped inspire ongoing violent protests in the Middle East. He's with actress Anna Gurji, who played one of Muhammed's wives in the film, on the Innocence of Muslims set.

"You Make Me Feel" is not just a highlight of English producer Terror Danjah's second album, Dark Crawler (out Sept. 25 on Hyperdub), it's one of the most thrilling R&B songs I've heard all year. The rare all-sung track on an album full of instrumentals and rough grime tracks, "You Make Me Feel" exists in a state of flux: aggressive with its beats and ambient elsewhere, peppy in its bridge and laconic in its chorus and contemporary but strongly indebted to the '90s (multiple phases of that decade are referenced: new jill swing, 2-step, Timbaland-style wackiness). It's an appropriately satisfying series of payoffs.

To promote the release of their first studio album in 13 years, members of the '90s alternative rock staple Ben Folds Five, who ended a decade-long hiatus last year, have teamed up with another band of merrymakers returning to the pop culture fore after being away for a while: The Fraggles.

Update: Politico has asked us to take down the photograph. It can be seen here. It's of a guy, peeing behind the president.

A Kiribati policeman who became stranded on a fishing boat with his brother-in-law told the crew members of the Marshall Islands ship that rescued him how his four-month ordeal finally came to an end thanks to the aid of a friendly shark.

Does factual evidence show that we are living in a bold new "Age of Aquarius" in which young people throw off the strictures of their square parents' uptight generation and forge their own path, outside of the square uptight money-focused world where everything is always about money and shit? The answer is a resounding "yes, dad." For not only are The Youth giving up on law school—they're giving up on business school, as well.

Three years of strong corporate profits have done little to solve America's unemployment crisis. The looming decline of corporate profits won't help, either. The official unemployment rate is still over 8%. More than 13 million Americans are jobless. Every week, we're bringing you their stories. This week's are particularly compelling.

Another day, another real-life Walter White: A chemistry teacher from East Texas was busted by the police for selling home-cooked meth in the parking lot of his junior high school.

"MUSLIM RAGE," screams Newsweek's new cover story about last week's violent anti-American protests. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the well-known anti-Islam activist, is here to tell "us" (The_West) how to "end it." And it's true, isn't it? All Muslims are constantly raging about everything. So to pay tribute to Ali's article — which describes the protesters as "the mainstream of contemporary Islam" — and the subtle, smart cover that accompanies it, we've collected 13 striking, powerful images of MUSLIM RAGE.

Today is the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. The masses that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge and occupied Manhattan's Zuccotti Park for months seem like a weird fever dream of drumming and chanting; the Dow reached its highest point in five years last week, as if to underscore OWS' vanishment. But shit is still fucked up and bullshit. And for today at least, Occupy marches again: 1,000 protesters took to the street to mark the anniverary, with dozens of arrests this morning. There's even reports of a cop punching a protester!

On a nondescript road in the Netherlands, in full view of other motorists — including an extremely loud school bus teeming with excitable oglers — one man finds a mature way to relieve the stress of being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

It's being heralded as the "best office farewell email ever," but, as some are pointing out, it's mostly a rip-off of the classic "fuck you, you're cool" scene from Half Baked.

World-beating crap purveyor Wal-Mart turns 50 years old this year. They can celebrate because they're the world's biggest retailer and destroyer of the American dream; we can celebrate because the store has abandoned its plans to build a store in NYC, for the moment. And everyone can celebrate with this nice, furious rant sent to us by a former Wal-Mart employee.

Fox News morning show Fox & Friends clearly searched high and low for a young American — any young America — who gave up on President Obama and went looking for hope and change in his Republican counterpart.

Mike Hayhurst, a professional rodeo clown and barrelman from Barstow, California, may have thought he was just clowning around when he told Saturday's crowd at the 17th annual Creston Classic Rodeo a vehemently racist joke involving First Lady Michelle Obama, but the rodeo's board members aren't laughing.