NPR's The Salt blog warns that the hippie dippy organic yogurt you make today could outlive you.

The man suspected of being the cab driver responsible for a brutal hit and run in Quebec that was caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube was in police custody today after being charged with aggravated assault causing bodily harm, among other felonies.

There are a some striking images coming out of today's May Day protests, but this must be the most absurd. It's is a picture of self-declared 'citizen superhero' Phoenix Jones and his sidekick at Seattle's May Day protests, which have at times erupted in violence. Phoenix Jones has been wandering around Seattle today, allegedly dousing protesters with a comically large bottle of pepper spray.

Today, the Philadelphia-bred Santigold released her excellent sophomore album, Master of My Make-Believe. The collection of low-key anthems genre-hops like Madonna at her most informed and tasteful. You hear bits of punk, rave, dubstep, as well as some Knife-derived spookiness, some rapping that sounds inspired by Peaches and some drum programming that rips off/pays homage to Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill." The whole thing is sprinkled with a dubbish, reggae sensibility. Master goes to so many different places in such a brief period of time (11 tracks in less than 40 minutes) while remaining so user-friendly that it feels like it's holding up Gwen Stefani's 2004 album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. as an ideal. That release was a major player in converting the event pop album into a style-juggling, wide-cast sonic net — an ingenious strategy to cater to the then-burgeoning iTunes market. Why make a coherent statement when you can be all things to all people?

cdza — or Collective Cadenza if you're not into the whole brevity thing — are best remembered for their "History of Lyrics That Aren't Lyrics": A diddy-delightful medley of songs that feature nonsensical lyrics.

A University of Iowa student who claims she was discriminated against by an Iowa City bar over the size of her body says a student protest of the establishment is still on for this Friday despite a public apology issued by the owner.

Nearly six years after the Aaron Sorkin poli-drama West Wing went off the air, Funny or Die reunites Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Josh Malina, William Duffy, Melissa Fitzgerald, and Dulé Hill for a one-off West Wing short to promote — what else? — a walking-centric fitness campaign called Every Body Walk!

Avery Lynn Canahuati, the five-month-old girl with Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy who rallied the world to her cause through a "bucket list blog" started by her parents, passed away suddenly Monday afternoon.

Congratulations, investors: the Dow Jones Industrial Average today hit its highest level since December, 2007. We're right back to pre-recession levels. It's as if the past four years never happened.

Here is Kate Upton dancing in front of Terry Richardson. Here is Kate Upton dancing for Terry Richardson. Here is Kate Upton dancing. Here is Terry Utpon dancing like a cat.

Animal rescue specialists and state officials in Orange County who attempted to force a dolphin living in the Bolsa Chica channel to rejoin his pod in Huntington Harbour have decided to temporarily abandon their efforts after "Bolsa Chica Bob" was blocked from leaving the area by his fellow dolphins.

This weekend, Karl Rove's mom-and-pop PAC, American Crossroads, took a couple shiny quarters out of its $100 million billfold and gave the world "Obama Cool," a political attack ad that accuses Barack Obama of being cool.

At Saturday's Fire Extreme Fighting MMA event in Kankakee, Illinois, a 53-year-old spectator who goes by "Tim" agreed, apparently on a whim, to replace a no-show fighter in a match against an opponent half his age.

What a day for News Corp: First Rupert Murdoch is ruled by Members of Parliament to be unfit to run a major international company; then, The Sun publishes a press-halting exposé on the emerging trend of "wacky cat pics" allegedly "wowing the web."

After 37 months of pregnancy, America's most fashionable country bumpkin Jessica Simpson has given life to a baby girl. Welcome to the world, Maxwell Drew Johnson. Countless farts and pairs of Spanx preceded your arrival.

Bernard P. Hopkins was born, raised, lived, and died in Texas. Somewhere in between his 88 winters he managed to secure for himself quite a legacy.

I always tip between 15 and 20 percent irrespective of the quality of service because being a waiter/waitress is hard enough without making way below minimum wage.

It is fortunate that the legal profession is renowned for its graceful sense of humor about its own problems, because the "new generation" of lawyers will consist only of one cute dog, because everyone else knows that going to law school would be the worst possible decision that a young adult can make except for eating that third slice of Pizza Hut's new Cheesy Bites™ pizza simulacrum. Let's check in on the depressing mire of gloom that is the legal profession and its educational antecedents, shall we?

When Jason Segel casually mentioned to Us Weekly back in March that he would love to one day co-star in a comedy with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at least one person took him seriously: Hillary Clinton.