In an effort to demonstrate that the al Qaeda-affiliated group reportedly behind the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi does not represent the city's residents, many Libyans today took to the streets with signs of apology and support.

It doesn't seem as though Lindsay Lohan would be very picky about film roles these days, given her rapid descent down the alphabet of Hollywood's caste system, but apparently you can take the girl off the A-list with less effort than it takes to do the opposite.

The story of the Muhammed movie which sparked deadly protests in Libya and Egypt gets weirder. The actors who appeared in it had no idea they were starring in anti-Islam propaganda which depicts Muhammed as a child molester and thug. They were deceived by the film's director, believing they were appearing in a film about the life of a generic Egyptian 2,000 years ago.

Speaking with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft for an interview scheduled to air tonight, President Obama criticized GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney for politicizing the deadly consulate attack in Benghazi with incorrect claims.

A naked man found in a Bavarian forest turned out to be a monk who mistakenly ate hallucinogenic berries and got lost.

Courtney Stodden's Italian greyhound, Dourtney Stodden, captured all our hearts when she received him as a present for her 18th birthday.

That back-to-school chill is in the air, except in Chicago, where 26,000 public school teachers and support staff are on strike and more than 350,000 students are just fucking off all day instead of learning. Even though Chicago is a dull provincial city of little national import, everybody is talking about the strike because Rahm Emanuel is mayor and Obama used to live there. What's the story?

In the wake of Mitt Romney's horrible mishandling of last night's deadly attacks on U.S. diplomats in Libya and Egypt, many Americans are wondering if the millionaire Mormon is really presidential material. Now comes news that even Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, has been hedging his bets against a loss in November.

Remember the days when books were made of paper, and you had to go to the store to buy them, and if the store didn't have the one you wanted, then you had to wait two weeks until they could order it? Haha! Neither do we!

Terry Jones, the inflammatory Florida-based pastor who brought to light the low-rent anti-Islam movie that sparked deadly riots in Egypt and Libya, says he intends to keep promoting the film despite requests from top US officials that he cease.

After robbing a Santa Clarita Valley bank earlier today, four men sped off in a black Volvo towards downtown Los Angeles trailed closely by LAPD. En route, two of the robbers bailed out of the vehicle while the other two exited the highway and took to the streets of a Los Angeles neighborhood tossing "unknown amounts of cash" out the window. All six of the men involved in the robbery were apprehended after over an hour when a local guy in a silver truck cut them off and forced the Volvo to a stop.

In case you missed it, the discussion section of yesterday's post about the upcoming episode of Dr. Phil featuring Jael Strauss, the former America's Next Top Model contestant who's hooked on meth, featured a post from CariDee English, winner of the show's 7th cycle. It's an interesting peek into the very specific situation of what it means to be a Tyra Banks-crowned "Top Model" in an actual industry of top models, and what happens when the platform you've been given disappears from under your feet. Highlights are below:

This year's I'll Be Your Mirror festival (via All Tomorrow's Parties) is being curated by the Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli and will take place Sept. 21 to Sep. 23 in New York. We're premiering the festival's official mixtape here. Full track list is below. I'm predictably partial to the Blanck Mass track, but Tall Firs' "Crooked Smiles" is too fucking weird not to appreciate.

There is no denying cats have had an amazing run on the Internet these last few years.

The attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya that left a U.S. ambassador and three embassy employees dead is being linked to protests over a YouTube trailer for a shitty satirical film about the prophet Muhammed. But the film's creator, a man who goes by the name "Sam Bacile," is a mystery.

Actress Alison Pill, best remembered from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and her recent stint on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, has taken a more direct approach to nude celebrity photo leaks by posting her own topless photo to Twitter herself.

According to a report from the Associated Press, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is calling for the release of three members of Pussy Riot, saying that any further imprisonment would be "unproductive."

Mitt Romney has already been nearly universally condemned for his overt attempts to politicize last evening's attacks on U.S. diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt, and the murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Attempting to make President Obama look really bad, Fox & Friends put up a graphic yesterday comparing the "real unemployment rate" in 2009 versus today.

Prepare to stop taking a lot of things for granted.