Last week, Rashida Jones had the audacity to point out the obvious about John Travolta.

Yes, it probably is.

US pop. reached pi x 100,000,000 today (314,159,265). In celebration, every American ate 100,000,000 pies ("the usual").

Teresa Carter maintains that police in Arkansas killed her son, but officials continue to insist that 21-year-old Chavis Chacobie Carter shot himself in the head despite being handcuffed in the back of a Jonesboro Police cruiser.

Now that people can barely even remember anything that happened during the London Olympics, the world is ready to start getting excited about spending 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. Accordingly, the Brazilian Olympic Committee has just released the theme song for the Rio Games.

Tired of having to purchase your pizzas and Cinnabon rolls separately? Introducing the Pizzabon.

The new CEO of the New York Times Co. is Mark Thompson, previously the Director-General of the BBC.

Two months before alleged killer James Holmes stormed a Colorado movie theater, murdering 12 and injuring dozens more, police and politicians in a different place were trying to squelch the tremors from their own mass killing. It was in Chicago, over Memorial Day weekend, when police responded to more than 40 shooting victims in about 72 hours. Ten of those victims were shot dead, including four teenage children. Alas, despite the fact that more people died that weekend than in both the August 5 Sikh killings and yesterday's College Station shootings combined, there will be no flags at half-staff for those 10 Chicagoans. It's likely you didn't even know those people were dead, just like most of your friends and family. In a summer of now three much-lamented shootings with multiple victims, Chicago's murdered are the forgotten ones.

We're halfway through the latest Big Brother season, and it's about time we point out just how strangely pill-induced this cast has gotten. Xanax seems to be the drug of choice, and it's made for some weird moments. You can watch a video reel of them above, but it's out of chronological order and so requires some explaining:

After being subjected to an Internet firestorm of Chick-fil-A proportions, Progressive finally released a statement concerning its role in the case of a negligent driver who killed comedian Matt Fisher's sister.

Yesterday, photos of Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Benjamin Maisani making out with some dude who is not Anderson Cooper surfaced. Today, longtime friends Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper let the Instagram world know that they're vacationing together in beautiful, romantic, sunset-filled Croatia.

A philosophical question: Is saving money a moral imperative? That is, given the means, are we all ethically obligated to save at least a small portion of our income, in case of emergency? Or are we morally free to blow every penny on impulse purchases, the future be damned?

Julian Assange will be granted asylum in steamy Ecuador, reports the Guardian, citing an Ecuadorian official. Assange has been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19th, seeking asylum from president Rafael Correa in order to avoid an extradition order to Sweden where he faces a sex crimes investigation.

The No Asshole Rule author Bob Sutton took to his blog yesterday to tell an incredible story about a fuck-up of staggering proportions involving United Airlines, breathtaking amounts of buck-passing, and a lost little girl.

America's obnoxious but good-looking ex who it sometimes hooks up with when it gets drunk, Ryan Lochte, will guest star on an episode of 90210, America's obnoxious but good-looking show who it sometimes watches when it gets drunk, this October.

Here's an EDM remix of Michael Jackson's "Bad" off the Bad 25 box set. Because what MJ always needed was more Pitbull.

Master chef (and master spy) Julia Child was born 100 years ago tomorrow.

Actor Ron Palillo, who is best remembered for his role as Arnold Dingfelder Horshack on the classic ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, passed away this morning in his Palm Beach, Florida home at the age of 63.

As the final Olympics medal count shows, America dominates at pretty much everything.

Robert Anasi moved to Williamsburg in 1994 and spent more than a decade watching the neighborhood transform from an isolated and novel bohemia into the fully gentrified cultural monster that it is today. His new book, The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a first person chronicle of the neighborhood's character (and characters), and of its changes.