Over 51,000 people retweeted Obama's "This seat's taken" response, making it the most popular tweet related to the RNC.

For those of us shown Jaws at a too-young age, this is pretty much a worst case scenario: a thirteen foot, 1,600 pound Great White Shark washed up on a New England beach Saturday morning. Fishmerman Gary Severa discovered the wretched sea beast early Saturday on a beach near the Rhode Island – Massachusetts border.

According to the New York Times, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating Bain Capital, along with several other major private equity firms, to see whether the firms used tax loopholes to avoid paying hundreds of millions in taxes. Schneiderman reportedly issued subpoenas to Bain Capital as well as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, TPG Capital, Sun Capital Partners, Apollo Global Management and Silver Lake Partners. The subpoenas seek "documents that would reveal whether they converted certain management fees collected from their investors into fund investments, which are taxed at a far lower rate than ordinary income."

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelical leader, Washington Times founder, and self-proclaimed messiah, died today at 92.

In what is surely the biggest reveal of the campaign season so far, the Obama camp finally released the previously top secret recipe to Obama's two home brewed beers. White House chef Sam Kass posted the recipes for the beers – a honey ale and a honey porter – to the White House's blog on Saturday afternoon.

Sure, Clint Eastwood might have made headlines by having a one-sided debate with Invisible Obama, but the President bears him no ill will.

Generally walking into a fire station and confessing to murder is a good way to get oneself arrested. But a Detroit man was forced to turn himself in twice after the first time didn't stick.

Here is President Obama made out of sand.

Despite an oppressive ad campaign, The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure did not overcome its "What the hell is this?" vibe.

National treasure Kim Kardashian gives so much and asks so little — all she wanted was one measly star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Overhyped boy band rivalries are a thing again. Do you love One Direction or The Wanted? Both is not an option.

In an op-ed published today, Archbishop and Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu does not mince words in his condemnation of the Iraq War:

China-based blog Beijing Cream offers the sad tale of a car crash that led to the spilling of 770 pounds of raw eggs — that's at least 6,000.

Teenage crone Courtney Stodden, who recently turned 18, claims she's been mulling over all the porn offers she's received. Would this good Christian bitch do the deed on camera?

A New Hampshire woman was arrested four times in twenty-six hours, an impressive accomplishment no one really wants to brag about.

Songwriter Hal David, who collaborated with Burt Bacharach on songs like "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," has died.

While rumors have long circulated about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' union being arranged, an upcoming Vanity Fair cover story asserts that in 2004 there was a Scientology-sponsored audition process to find Tom Cruise a girlfriend — and Katie Holmes wasn't the first choice.

The controversy was immediate. People were on TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo like flies on pig shit. Or maybe our collective revelry in the show's trashiness resembled a pig in shit. Whatever it was, a metaphor involving pigs and shit is apt for a show that featured a rented pet teacup pig Glitzy pooping on a kitchen table. This incited laughter onscreen and validation within each audience member, wherever he or she fit on the continuum ("These people are vile" to "These people are endearingly raw").

Alas, a 97-page paper isn't the longest ever delivered at the Federal Reserve symposium, but it's still really boring.

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the former archbishop of Milan, died Friday — but not before giving a final interview in which he condemned the Catholic Church for not getting with the times.