Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" is a timeless classic, no doubt about that. But the song's music video is a bit, shall we say, overexposed.

It's unclear just how much money changed claws before Snooki and her baby-daddy Jionni LaValle "opened their home" to People magazine (some estimate a cool $250 grand), but the tabloid was ultimately granted exclusive access to the newest member of Casa d'Meatball, Lorenzo Dominic.

The White House released this photo of Barack Obama and daughters, Sasha and Malia, watching Michelle Obama deliver her speech at the Democratic National Convention.

This is officially the gayest convention ever: the Democratic National Convention has a record number of LGBT delegates.

On the one hand, we shouldn't really give One Million Moms any more attention: they're trolls, not a legitimate political advocacy group, and if we ignore them, maybe they'll go away.

If you have nobody to hug, this mildly terrifying jacket will hug you.

How do you like the view from the cheap seats? We are sitting next to the gentleman from the Daily Caller, which ought to give you a sense of where Gawker sits in the Democratic Party hierarchy. Hamilton Nolan and I are here at the Time Warner Cable Arena, watching history (in the form of pro forma theatrics) happening before our eyes. It's raining outside, and a sad graveyard of discarded umbrellas (you can't bring them inside) sits outside the front entrance. Someone just said, "I'm Jewish, I'm gay, I'm a father, and I'm an entrepreneur." Let's liveblog!

The Democratic National Convention had the indecency to use footage of Ted Kennedy to attack Mitt Romney. Are your pearls firmly clutched?

Tired of hearing your hippie friends cluck their tongues at you for eating "unhealthy" regular produce instead of the pricier organic stuff they buy? I'm a super-strict vegetarian who lives in California, and those people even get on my nerves. From now on, send anyone who chastises your non-organic ways to these two new studies that say organic food may not be so wonderful, despite the fact that it's oftentimes more expensive and revered by the Bikram set.

A family that was trying to fly from New Jersey to Los Angeles claims they were kicked off an American Airlines flight because their 16-year-old son has Down syndrome.

This week's New Yorker has a lengthy profile on reclusive director siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski and their collaboration with Tom Tykwer to turn David Mitchell's seemingly unfilmable 2004 novel Cloud Atlas into a movie.

Big victory for beautiful nude women: A model arrested for wearing only body paint in public won a $15K suit against NYC

Earlier this week, a 35-year-old man was arrested because he wasn't able to eat fake money very quickly. Technically, he was arrested for trying to buy French fries with a counterfeit $50 bill, then attempting to eat $1,200 in bogus fifties (twenty-four bills) before security officers detained him.

As a journalist, I am sworn to bring facts to light by any means necessary. So here is a picture of me in a tutu with a shoe on my head at Gawker HQ. (A size 9 1/2 men's Reebok Question, to be exact.)

The Time Warner Cable Sucks™ Arena is, just as you might have guessed, abuzz with activity, right now, just minutes before the Democratic convention's formal kickoff. Would you like to tour the wonderful, wacky, and very mildly amusing scene, in photos? Why not???

From Can Evrenol, the acclaimed filmmaker who took home the prize for Most Disturbing Short Film at the 2010 HP Lovecraft Festival in Poland, comes a VERY NSFW courtesy PSA screened before films at this year's Film4 FrightFest reminding audience members to "turn off their bloody phones."

Vice presidential candidate and fastest man on Earth Paul Ryan has just had his Secret Service code name revealed by Gentleman's Quarterly Magazine. It's Bowhunter.

Hoping to counter the "bad name" Clint Eastwood gave "to older Americans everywhere with his absurd and awkward-to-watch introduction of Governor Romney" at last week's Republican National Convention, an ever-growing number of Internet users hope to convince the Democratic powers-that-be to let Betty White introduce President Obama at this week's Democratic National Convention.

Drag Race winner Sharon Needles' It Gets Better video almost bests Amanda Lepore's. (Yes, people are still doing this.)

REPORTING LIVE FROM THE CHARLOTTE BOBCATS PRACTICE COURT/ TEMPORARY DNC PRESS CENTER, CHARLOTTE, NC—Welcome to the 2012 Democratic National Convention, gentle reader! Your correspondents have arrived, soaked by a freak rainstorm but unbowed, for three about two and a quarter days of solid "on the scene" coverage of the Most Important Political Nomination Convention of 2012, Democratic Edition. Come along on our harrowing journey through artifice, won't you?