A note from Dan Rather: I'm aware that my musings run counter to some of the more prominent early reviews in high-profile publications such as The New Yorker and the New York Times. But with all due respect (and I have a lot of it for those reviewers), I just don't think they "get it"; they've somehow missed the breadth, depth and "got it right" qualities –- and importance — of Newsroom. Maybe it's because they are print people. Then, too, maybe they're right and I'm wrong. I never rule out the possibility of that. But I've lived in the world of television newsrooms for most of my adult life. I know the people, the venues and the challenges — the satisfactions of success and the heartbreak when things go awry. From where I sit and based on my experience, Sorkin and crew have got it amazingly right, even when they over talk it.

A 17-year-old California kid got his arm stuck inside a vending machine while attempting to lift a soda can through the receiving slot.

Sad news out of the Galapagos Islands: Lonesome George, believed to be the last remaining member of the Pinta Island giant tortoise subspecies, was found dead in his corral yesterday morning by his caretaker, Fausto Llerena.

The First Lady is not making many friends in the cranberry industry.

Driving a cherry red convertible doesn't just put you at a higher risk for tickets — you're also more likely to be shit on by birds, according to a new British study.

Notable Canadian game show host Alex Trebek suffered a minor heart attack yesterday. He is already on the mend, but remains under observation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

No surprise here: Brave is now the 13th Pixar movie to debut in first place at the box office. That makes Pixar 13 for 13.

The hot new drug kids are abusing is sold over the counter. It's cheap, it's easy to access, and children readily slather it all over their bodies for the full effect.

The Voice judge and Bond villain Cee Lo Green spends much of his time on the reality TV competition stroking his feline companion, Purrfect. Next season he is swapping her out for a Moluccan cockatoo named Lady — and animal rights activists are not happy about it.

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidency in Egypt, beating opponent Ahmed Shafik in the country's closely watched election. Shafik was the last prime minister to have served under ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Now that Jerry Sandusky has been found guilty of 45 of the 48 charges against him, Penn State would like to put the ugly incident behind them. But the school's child-sex abuse scandal is far from over, as further legal and financial consequences loom on the horizon.

Women are goddesses. Chandeliers are atypical. Come for the enormous plasma balls, stay for Mike Basson's cigars.

Black magic priestess Nadya Suleman has filed a report against Virgin America alleging that the crew on her New York to L.A. flight spent the duration of it picking on her.

Bat flu? Ha, it's a thing of the past. It's time you start worrying about the bird flu, say the scientists. In as little as five mutations, a group of Dutch researchers were able to engineer a strain of the H5N1 flu that is airborne among mammals. If it were to become airborne, an avian bird flu pandemic would likely follow.

Mugly, maybe a contraction for more ugly, beat out 28 other contestants to become the World's Ugliest Dog. Like last year's winner, Mugly is a Chinese Crested and from the UK.

The Obama-Biden campaign is asking betrothed couples and young Jews coming of age to forgo their gifts and instead donate them to The Cause via a jokey-ish registry on the campaign's website.

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.

Following last night's conviction of former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, Michael Boni, the attorney representing the young man whose comments sparked the investigation, said that his client "feels elated," and that he and his mother feel "very, very empowered."

The New York Times guesses that it's only matter of time before the Girls tour is upon us, writing that the stage has been set "for a Sex and the City-style tour by compiling online maps of the actual bars, boutiques, street corners and apartments where the show takes place."

Fox News Magazine, which launched on Monday, "is the official lifestyle magazine of Fox News" covering, among other things, love, relationships, and style for women. They recently published a piece called, "10 Pranks That Will Spice Up Your Relationship," which, if your relationship isn't spicy enough, you should probably go read right now.