HBO today acknowledged an ongoing viral Internet campaign to convince the premium cable channel operator to allow people to subscribe to its streaming service HBO GO without signing up for the channel itself, but said it would not be making this option available — at least for now.

Last week, the New York Times ran a 5,000-word article on the Obama administration's "secret" drone assassination program that might as well have been accompanied by the cheery clip art that comes with brochures on STDs from the free clinic.

The nondenominational Christian academy Cincinnati Hills is receiving some serious flak today for allegedly rescinding a job offer extended to music teacher Jonathan Zeng because he answered affirmatively when asked if he was gay.

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker made his name with a coldblooded campaign to destroy public sector unions. Pro-union Wisconsinites tried to recall Walker; they failed. This has led to some gloating and speculation from the usual suspects (Rich Lowry, nice blazer, hair boy) that the death knell has formally sounded for unions in America.

Walt Disney Animation Studios' upcoming 3D animated feature Wreck-It Ralph tells the story of a video game villain (John C. Reilly) who aims to prove he's not all bad.

A 43-year-old man from Lousiana's Lafayette Parish was arrested over the weekend for attacking an acquaintance in a manner eerily reminicent of the "Miami Zombie" incident that took place last month.

So sorry to get your hopes up: A mere day after it was announced that controversial mother-cum-porn-star Nadya "Octomom" Suleman had signed a deal to perform a week's worth of strip shows at a West Palm Beach gentlemen's club, a rep for the bankrupt baby producer told TMZ she was pulling out.

John Carter, the instantly infamous Disney bomb and possible co-assassin of Taylor Kitsch's career, sees its home-video release this week. It's kind of worth checking out just for the disastrous spectacle of it all, but if you're busy and don't want to watch two-plus hours of a multi-pronged civil war on Mars (aka Barsoom), which a white man crashes and then out-indigenouses the indigenous people, I've distilled everything you need to know about it. The video above is every instance of people saying the titular character's name throughout the film. They say it a lot. It's branding gone bad.

Ray Bradbury, the celebrated science fiction author who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, is dead at 91. io9's Meredith Woerner broke the news this morning after speaking to members of his family and has the full report. [io9]

Emails obtained by The Daily Telegraph through a Syrian opposition group lay bare an uncomfortably close relationship between The View matriarch Barbara Walters and the former press aide of genocidal tyrant Bashar al-Assad.

Despite the fact that college education in America is a years-long exercise in dodging crippling debt and financial exploitation with uncertain payoffs, it goes without saying that having a college degree is still preferable to only having a high school diploma, all things being equal. Because while indebted college graduates may be screwed at the moment, at least they get to cut ahead in line when the jobs come around.

On the evening of May 13, Mother's Day, a Canadian woman named Dana Dirr was hit head-on while driving to the Saskatchewan hospital where she worked as a trauma surgeon. She was 35 weeks pregnant, but determined to work until the moment she gave birth. The morning after the crash, her husband John ("J.S.") Dirr posted a note on Warrior Eli, a Facebook page the Dirrs had created to document their 5-year-old son Eli's battle with cancer: "Last night at 12:02am I lost the love of my life," J.S. wrote. "I lost my wife, the mother of my children, and my best friend." Miraculously, Dana had held on in the hospital just long enough to have her baby—a daughter, and the Dirr's eleventh child.

Speaking with Rolling Stone magazine for the first time since the infamous 2010 interview that spurred his two-year hiatus, John Mayer says he felt "really humiliated" and "terrible" upon hearing the Taylor Swift's "Dear John" — a song reportedly written about their break-up.

Useless virtual high school career fair LinkedIn was reportedly hacked, and 6.5 million passwords leaked to a Russian hacking website. The passwords were encrypted, but hackers have apparently already cracked more than 300,000. ZDNet reports that the hack affects less than 10 percent of LinkedIn's user base, but you should probably change your LinkedIn password, after spending 20 minutes trying to remember your LinkedIn password, just in case.

Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012 Sheena Monnin resigned her role in an angry Facebook post that accused the Miss USA pageant officials of fixing the contest and having the finalists all picked out prior to the show's airing.

Like other good former Disney stars before her, Miley Cyrus has gone and gotten herself engaged to second best Hemsworth brother, Liam. After dating for three years (and a few false alarms), reps for the pair confirm that they got engaged on May 31 when Liam lowered himself down on one knee and bestowed upon his 19-year-old child bride a 3.5-carat diamond ring from Neil Lane.

Police in Vancouver are looking into the possibility that a hand and foot mailed to two local schools are linked to the "body parts murder" that took place in Montreal last month.

Hey guys, diners, everybody gather 'round please: change of plans for lunch today, and every day. Chipotle is OUT. Taco Bell's new "Cantina" menu is in. Because Taco Bell now has high quality upscale foohahahaha sorry, wait, hahahaha, wait. Sorry. I really tried to keep a straight face there.

As millions of skywatchers around the world trained their heads upward yesterday to gaze upon the last Transit of Venus to occur in their lifetime (unless they plan to live another 105 years, in which case good luck with that), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was also monitoring the "rarest predictable solar event" — and getting a better view of the space show than practically anyone else.

The recent incidents of cannibalism and other heinous crimes have got Stephen Colbert thinking: maybe it's time to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen sorted through the whole mess and looked towards a possibly terrifying future.