"Obama Girl" Amber Lee Ettinger may no longer be as excited about POTUS as she was last time, but that's okay, because Brooklynite Justin Brown is more than happy to step up and assume the mantle of "Number One Obama Fanboy" — or "Obama Boy" for short.

The people have spoken, or whatever. Former RuPaul's Drag Race contestant Carmen Carrera's protest and petition-launching after being ridiculed on Monday's episode of Cake Boss have resulted in TLC deciding to halt all planned future airings of the episode. The network has also removed it from online retailers. This move is, unsurprisingly, approved by GLAAD, which says on its blog:

An upstanding Russian citizen known only as "Erik" claims he was on his way to work one morning when he came across two police officers in a cruiser who were not obeying the law they are sworn to enforce.

A Target store in Valley Stream, New York is once again in a battle over an attempt to unionize its workers. (The company was convicted of using illegal union-busting tactics when the union tried this last year.) Today is Target's shareholder meeting, in Chicago. What better time to hear from some beleaguered Target employees?

The City Council of Bastrop, Texas, has agreed to allow a local homeless man keep a bag of loot worth up to $77,000 that he found in a park last January.

Summer can terrible for those stuck in the city. The air stinks of tourist's sweaty sunblock residue, all the good-looking, rich locals are at beach houses you could never afford, and your 4th floor walk-up is barbarically under air-conditioned. However, if you take this short survey, you could win this portable gas grill—the perfect preemptive way to make the dog days of summer less doggy. Drag it to your roof/ fire escape/ abandoned lot down the block, and you'll be flipping burgers and pretending you where somewhere else in no time!

A police chase in Lubbock, Texas, took a terrifying turn when the vehicle being pursued tipped over, sending an 18-month-old girl flying through the backseat window.

"What happens when a deranged young man living in a hipster-infested LA neighborhood is pushed too far?" ask Jon D.A and Ian Shorr, creators of the Kickstarter-funded indie short Hipster Holocaust.

Writer, director, producer, and star of HBO's much-dissected comedy series Girls Lena Dunham recently issued a formal rebuttal to critics who pick on the show for featuring a main cast composed entirely of celebrity offspring.

This week, the debut album from Swedish weirdos (Sweirdos?) Niki & the Dove, Instinct, was released digitally in the United States. Swirling in influences that seem to range from the Knife to superstitions to a pile of twigs, Instinct is a creepy, pulsating electronic beast that manages ultimately to sound just left of standard pop. Confounding, fantastical lyrics abound, but my favorite moments come in the more straightforward offerings whose subtle weirdness manages to creep under skin with a stealth tenacity.

There should be a name for the kind of crisis that occurs between the status-anxious quarter-life type and the desperately youth-reclaiming midlife variety. That male, mid-30's freak out that masquerades as a nonstop party is an Atlantic trend piece waiting to happen, full of quotes from single-ish men who are too immature to know better or men that do know better and consciously flaunt their remaining immaturity.

"I really did not expect that he would marshal an army of people who would besiege my website and send me a string of obscene emails," FunnyJunk's lawyer Charles Carreon told Digital Life's Rosa Golijan.

When you walk into a gym, or "gymnasium" as they're known on the streets, you'll find three distinct areas: a "cardio area," where boring people are doing things I don't even care about; a free weights area, where people are doing exercise; and a fitness machine area, where crippled people are doing physical rehab. "But hey," you exclaim stupidly, "I do the fitness machines, and I am not crippled!"

Twitterers last night collectively gasped at the sight of a big-bottomed birthday-suited girl alleged to be sex-tape thespian Kim Kardashian, but were quickly disillusioned: The photo proved to be a year-old twitpic snapped by porn star Amia Miley.

Since we're on the topic of basic fairness for the working people of America, here is a useful thing: a pro-worker group called Restaurant Opportunities Centers United has produced a handy pocket guide to many of America's most popular restaurants, to let you know exactly how badly their employees are treated. The short version, below.

Now that you've read all about New York City's bloody history, prepare to descend into the world of Copper, BBC America's brand-new, original series. Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson (Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man) is among its executive producers, and he and series co-creator, Emmy®-winner Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide: Life on the Streets), are big-time NYC history buffs.

Now this is crazy: Colin Powell and CBS This Morning co-anchor Gayle King take advantage of a commercial break to bust out the chorus of Carly Rae Jepsen's insufferably infectious "Call Me Maybe" while Charlie Rose watches on.

7-year-old Max Page, who is best known for portraying a diminutive Darth Vader in Volkswagen's successful Super Bowl ad (and also for looking uncannily like a little Luke Skywalker), will undergo open-heart surgery tomorrow at LA's Children's Hospital.

Stephen Colbert is vying to become the next Swede to speak on behalf of the Nordic country via the Kingdom's official Twitter account.

Legendary Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill, who turned FBI informant later in life and became the subject of Martin Scorsese's acclaimed crime film Goodfellas, passed away yesterday of an undisclosed illness he had apparently been battling for some time.