So far, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has donated $58,825 to Obama's campaign, but only $2,750 to Romney's.

In a story that lacks an easy song-based joke, "Doin It" rapper and professional hat wearer LL Cool J thwarted a home robbery this morning by detaining the potential burglar after a physical confrontation. According to the Los Angeles Times, the hip-hop legend was upstairs in his Studio City home when he heard a noise from his kitchen. Because he's clearly one of the strongest people in the world, J went down to investigate.

In response to a recent declaration by hip hop artist Lil Wayne that he doesn't like New York, Malcolm Smith, a Democratic state Senator representing Queens, appeared before reporters in Times Square today to demand an apology.

For people who have sex, legit sex—under the shirt touching and everything—on the reg, there is nothing more frustrating than constantly having to explain to others that they are the type of person who has sex.

Chloë Sevigny will join Fred and Carrie for the third season of Portlandia. That's some pretty meta casting up in here.

Say what you will about this fashion-challenged father and his shin-high socks, but goshdarnit if he doesn't look like he's having the time of his life.

Today, influential music-crit site Pitchfork really italicized its "influential" modifier by releasing the results of its Pitchfork People's List, a Converse-sponsored "readers' poll" of the best albums from the first 15 years of the site's existence (1996-2011). There were—to invoke the words Radiohead, which had three albums place in the Top 10—no surprises.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus announced today that theme of the Republican National Convention's second night will be "We Built It" — a theme aimed at "highlight[ing] America's entrepreneurial strength and our people's incomparable work ethic," as well as extending the purposeful distortion of President Obama's "you didn't build that" line.

We all have our favorite Angelina Jolie kid.

This is the perfect example of a video making a song — a hypnotic, wobbly house track, you either like what this is doing or you don't. Your body either responds to these particular sounds and frequencies or it doesn't. Simple. However, pairing it with a host of insects whose antennae twitch rhythmically and whose running (on a turntable) is synched with the beat makes it fascinating. This is among the most bizarre ways to convey how the song is behaving.

Karen Klein, the upstate New York bus monitor who became the face of America's bullying problem when a video of schoolchildren taunting her went viral earlier this year, has launched an anti-bullying foundation she hopes will put an end to it once and for all.

The British monarchy is an expensively maintained tourist attraction, chiefly composed of distant cousins who have married one another, the peasant daughter of a local party planner, and several large hats. Anyone could be the head of it. Queen Elizabeth II, a corgi wearing a monocle, London-born Mischa Barton. Anyone.

Cronenberg's Videodrome will be remade. This is gross for reasons that have nothing to do with weird, alien orifices.

For the last few days, the Republican Party has been reeling over the shockingly retrograde attitudes towards rape and abortion expressed by one of its senate candidate — attitudes that reveal an ignorance about, and disregard for, women and women's health. But into the breach rides The National Review's Kevin D. Williamson, ready to show American women (and the non-women who love them) that the Republican party is inclusive, open, and highly respectful to women:

Dan Savage of Savage Love and It Gets Better fame recently invited Brian Brown, president of the anti-gay nonprofit National Organization for Marriage, to have dinner with him and his family at his home in Seattle.

Actor, writer, and True Blood Reverend vampire Michael McMillian is currently answering questions over at i09. Spooky.

After Ohio's Secretary of State Jon Husted announced last week that early-voting sites across the state would only be open on weekdays, many felt the restriction would unfairly impact "working people" in general, and minorities in particular.

Unless Tropical Storm Isaac decides to rain on the GOP's parade, Republican National Convention delegates arriving in Tampa next week will have at least one thing to look forward to: Free admittance at Tampa Bay's "only gay owned and gay operated" bathhouse, Ybor Resort & Spa.

In the wee hours of early Wednesday morning, a veritable photoshopping frenzy was touched off after a Redditor noted that the photo found on VP nominee Paul Ryan's Wikipedia page was "absurdly high resolution" and therefore ripe for "some fun."

"Believe it or not, people without millions of dollars also like to drink coffee": a response to the NYT high line oped.