Marilyn Manson shocked millions (rough estimate) when he walked through security with "FUCK YOU" written on his mouth and neck.

TMZ posted a photo of Macaulay Culkin in which he looks significantly healthier and not addicted to heroin.

The blinks of a 35-year-old man, paralyzed and dying from a gunshot wound, may help convict his killer.

"Does Every Olympic Athlete Get Rich Now?" E! Online asks.

Here are the Sims versions of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan making out. For America, presumably.

Before Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan as his Vice President, Romney introduced him as the "next President of the United States."

When I was six, my mother left a box of small garbage bags lying around. I found one, cut the bottom off, and used the cinch-tie at the top to make a small, crude dress. I put it on and looked at myself in the mirror. As my reflection stared back at me, a wave of well-being surged over me, sweeping away any real specifics of that moment. All that remained was a feeling of correctness, like finding just the right word to describe something: a reflection of myself as I knew myself to be, but had yet to see. I turned away from the mirror with a new sensation of beauty and lightness buoying my step. I descended the stairs to show my parents, who sat in the enclosed porch.

Mosquito bites might be fun to scratch — hey, I don't know what you're into — but they can cause some serious complications. In fact, an outbreak of mosquito-carried West Nile Virus has claimed the lives of nine people this summer.

Tim Pawlenty is being a good sport about not getting chosen as Romney's VP: he'll be campaigning at an ice cream social.

Leave it to the internet to spoil Mitt Romney's special day — late last night, NBC was reporting that Romney would pick Rep. Paul Ryan as his VP, and the internet all but confirmed.

Ryan, the 42-year-old Congressman from Wisconsin (Yes, -R), appears to be the favorite choice as Mitt Romney's Veep Boy. He's definitely the most viral.

The 13th annual Gathering of the Juggalos is underway in Cave-in-Rock, Ill., this weekend, and the ninjas are not fucking around this year: Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, the godfathers of the Juggalo movement and the duo that comprises the Insane Clown Posse, reportedly sat everyone down in the seminar tent this afternoon to announce that they're taking legal action against the FBI.

The first image has just been released of Russell Crowe as Noah in Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky's biblical follow-up to his 2010 film about lesbian ballerinas who do it, real nasty, lesbian style. And it confirms what many have long suspected: Russell Crowe sure does look like that.

Social media has gone mainstream, and jaded geeks are totally over it. Facebook? It's turned into "sludge for the brain now, filled with fluffy rabbits and gibberish." Twitter? Just a mess of "mass-market spoonfed 'trending topics.'" Instagram? What was once the epitome of geek chic has been overrun with filthy Android smartphone users, not to mention Iran's Supreme Leader.

It brings me great pain to have to agree with Congressman Allen West of Florida, a violent loon who is one of two black Republicans serving in the House of Representatives, about anything. Alas, I have to admit that what he says in this video of a Fox News appearance from today is actually right on.

Francesca Eastwood's birthday party at the Bootsy Bellows nightclub in West Hollywood came to a temporary halt Tuesday night when Linsday Lohan showed up and demanded the reality TV star leave posthaste, sources told Us Weekly.

The Perseid meteor shower peaks Saturday night, starting at 11. Meteors are angels being evicted. Tell your kids.

The Pussy Riot trial — in which three members of a Russian punk collective were charged with "hooliganism" and held in jail for months over a guerrilla performance Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral (you can read more about it here) — ended yesterday with two of the defendants, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (on the right and the left, respectively, in the above photo), giving closing statements. You should read them.

This week we violated someone's rights, championed trash, were culturally-impoverished, and encouraged the systematic murdering of all cats. All in all, a pretty solid week here in the SoHo HQ. See y'all next week!

Time editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria issued a statement this afternoon confessing to lifting parts from a New Yorker article by historian Jill Lepore for his own column on gun control.