YouTuber mad8vskillz sets the scene: "I found a dumb squirrel that got stuck in a bag of chips or something and rescued it. Squirrels are nasty as hell and have all kinds of diseases so I didn't want to get too close to it."

Lifetime officially confirmed today that troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has been tapped to play the late legend Elizabeth Taylor in the upcoming made-for-TV-movie Liz & Dick.

Angela Corey, the special prosecutor appointed to handle the Trayvon Martin case, has come under fire for what some regard as a deeply flawed indictment of George Zimmerman. Now Gawker pal Joseph Culligan, proprietor of Web of Deception, has noticed a strange wrinkle in the financial disclosures Corey has filed with the state of Florida: For every year since 2006, Corey has disclosed credit card debt, often with amounts as high as $75,000. Except for 2007. That year, she disclosed none. And 2007 happened to be the first year Corey filed a disclosure while running for statewide office. Weird.

The appropriate response to Girls, a television program about pretty young White Nationalists seeking abortions and love in the Big City, is silence. But we are in the noise business, and today is the 21st anniversary of the death of Johnny Thunders, so here is a recap.

The Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist told The Sunday Mail he thought the Glee cover of "Somebody That I Used To Know," performed by Darren Criss and guest star Matt Bomer, sounded like "it's playing to you from a cardboard box."

The recent near-total collapse of the global economy has had some real negative effects. Life savings wiped out; retirements ruined; people evicted from their homes. The fact that 23-year-olds are working at Starbucks even after they've earned their English diplomas? Not at the top of the list.

In his capacity as judge and coach on the Australian version of Dutch singing competition The Voice, singer-songwriter Seal holds in his hands the fate of hopeful contestants yearning for superstardom.

The Flaming Lips' Record Store Day full-length, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, is a subversive take on the nature of musical collaborations in 2012. Instead of exploiting famous friends like Ke$ha, Bon Iver and Coldplay's Chris Martin for the sake of chart-friendliness (as is standard practice in the industry), the Lips push their poppy friends into noisy, borderline inaccessible territory (and collaborators like Lightning Bolt, Neon Indian, Yoko Ono and Nick Cave are pushed into even more experimental territory than usual). It's a stunning album that's not lacking in tunes, but that doesn't want to make them easy for listeners, either.

An Ontario-based television station was forced to issue an apology to viewers after its morning news program was briefly interrupted by breaking hardcore gay porn.

Seven years later, Fiona Apple finally follows up her acclaimed third studio album Extraordinary Machine with the garrulously titled LP, The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do.

Dick pic prick Hunter Moore insists he shut down his notorious revenge porn site Is Anyone Up? last week under his own volition. But TMZ now reports that the day before he inexplicably sold Is Anyone Up? to an anti-bullying website, Moore was hit with a cease and desist letter for posting naked pictures of Twilight actor Kiowa Gordon. (Right in the picture above; he plays Jacob Black's bff Embry Call.)

Zach Galifianakis and Scott Aukerman are going full-length with their critically acclaimed Funny or Die web series Between Two Ferns.

Mansome, the latest documentary from Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock, seeks to answer the question of what it means to be a man "in a world where the definition of masculinity has become as diverse as a hipster's facial hair in Williamsburg."

In order to better address the needs of our fitness-obsessed readers, we are introducing this semi-regular column, "I of the Tiger," to take on the vital hardcore fitness issues of our time. Today: you are what you do. Dig it.

The new sitcom from Armando Iannucci (In the Loop), Veep, debuted on HBO last night. It's hilarious. Led by Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the decidedly non-Palin-esque Vice President of the United States, Selina Meyer, the cast has a kinetic energy that feels equally reminiscent of Christopher Guest's factory and Broadcast News. (Everyone's great, but Arrested Development's Tony Hale and former child star Anna Chlumsky stand out.) Not unlike the dearly departed Eastbound & Down, the show manages irreverence via characters of varying despicableness – they mocked the death of a pervy senator, and a major plot point came about when Selina made a joke about the guy who ran her Twitter that was a play on the phrase "hoist by one's own petard" (as seen in the clip above). The resulting "Retardgate" was eventually solved by blaming it on the person Selina and her team stole joke from in the first place (a senator Selina had met earlier in the episode). Nice, right?

Never ones to let an opportunity to knock Fox News pass them by, The Simpsons' producers semi-surreptitiously inserted the above title card into the closing credits of the show's pilot episode, "Simpsons Roasting on a Open Fire," which reran last night as part of a night of programming honoring the Fox Network's 25 years on the air.

Despite very specific instructions by us to cease and desist with his nature-based musings, designated New York Times leaf-and-cow columnist Verlyn Klinkenborg continues to invade the Sunday op-ed section with some of the world's most artisanal writing. None of which has anything to do with anything.

(Watch out, the clip above is NSFW if your job doesn't allow you to look at tits. If that's the case, you should probably quit, though.)

Sioux City Journal, the flagship broadsheet of Sioux City, Iowa, made the bold decision to dedicate the entirety of yesterday's page one to an anti-bullying editorial honoring the memory of an Iowa teenage who recently committed suicide shortly after coming out.

A tubby tabby named Meow was recently handed over to a shelter in Santa Fe after her 87-year-old owner could no longer care for her.