On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took Rick Santorum to task over some completely false statements that he has made in the name of speaking from his heart, statements like referring to a non-existent federal law mandating the use of English and claiming that the Dutch are involuntarily euthanizing their elderly. Like his takedown of John Kyl's "not intended to be a factual statement" moment, this is Colbert at his best.

In kind of a hodge-podge Daily Show segment, Jon Stewart zipped through two stories connected only by the thinnest of transitions: Syrian President Assad's email being hacked and the renaming of a small lake formerly known as Jew Pond. It still worked, though.

Deep in the weeds of show business blogging, in the comments under a blind gossip item, the actor Robert Downey Jr. may have just laid a venomous bite on Kirk Douglas, accusing the legendary actor of raping actress Natalie Wood.

Nike apologized today after it received criticism for branding a pair of (pretty sweet-looking) limited edition sneakers "Black and Tans," in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

The Justice Department has conceded that a year of your life is worth just shy of $47,000. While that may not sound like a lot to those of you who live in New York, or even just like your lives, it's a hell of a lot higher than the $5,000 per year they were originally trying to play ball with.

Provo-Orem, Utah is the nation's most optimistic metropolitan area, according to the results of a Gallup poll released earlier this week. This could explain why Provo-Orem, Utah just doesn't "get" your cynical, Big City humor.

The Ides of March are upon us. Beware the boredom that comes from not doing something fun! Our boredom-killing, fun-inducing live blog of Project Runway All Stars' penultimate episode is about to begin down in the comments, just as the soothsayers of ancient Rome predicted it would. Join us!

The British government is set to argue, in a landmark court case, that Christians have no inherent right to wear a cross or crucifix openly at work.

As gloomy poet Goethe once said, "Ich denke dein, wenn mir der Sonne schimmer Vom Meere strahlt; Ich denke dein, wenn sich des Mondes Flimmer In Quellen malt." Forget this little mutant rabbit's untimely end and only remember the good times. Til would have wanted it that way.

As part of our ongoing project to catalog the 2012 presidential election from a metal point of view, we've been soliciting presidential endorsements from noteworthy American metal musicians. Today: Exhumed.

Master of the modern freak show TLC has unveiled its most stomach-turning My Strange Addiction yet: A lady addicted to urine. She drinks it from glasses. She drinks it through her nose. She drinks it rhough her eyes. (Eyeballing?) She rubs "the aged stuff" all over her body.

Daily Caller reporter Matthew Boyle, during an email fight with DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse:

Since her death two days ago, little Til—the rare baby bunny trampled to death by a German camerman at her moment of fame—has become the star she was destined to be. Hundreds of news outlets have eulogized the tragic victim of the media, and new details continue to break.

The most recent article from The Nation's Jeremy Scahill profiled the imprisonment of Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye. For covering American cluster bomb strikes in Yemen and the radicalization of Yemeni citizens and their support for Al Qaeda, Shaye has been beaten and tortured, imprisoned for two years and, at America's request, seen a presidential pardon from Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh indefinitely tabled.

Michael Sokolove's NYT Magazine cover story this week is about the decline of the casino gambling industry—overinvestment followed by the recession, and oversupply of casinos which raises competition for a declining amount of disposable income. What will this mean for state tax revenue? What will this mean for Native American tribes? What will this mean for gamblers with money burning holes in their pockets?

Subject line of a press release that made me freak out just now: "MEGHAN McCAIN IN PLAYBOY'S APRIL ISSUE."

Are Asian co-eds the real reason this network comedian likes to tour colleges? We've heard multiple accounts of this TV funnyman romping with girls he picks up on college campuses—and getting a little raunchy with the play-by-play. According to a source, his pillow talk went something like this: "Nice and tight, just as I suspected." For the record, he was not complimenting this particular Asian coed on her abdominal muscles.

Please excuse this brief interruption to your regularly-scheduled programming, but we have a quick announcement to share with you that we hope you'll find exciting: Gawker has teamed up with Longreads, the best source for long-form journalism (etc.) on the web, and we now have our very own page over there.

Last time agitprop pop star M.I.A. fought a journalist, she tweeted Lynn Hirschberg's phone number. This time around, M.I.A. accused Anderson Cooper of calling her a terrorist—and then backed down when Anderson turned out to be an M.I.A. whisperer. Apparently you just have to compliment her middle finger, and all will be forgiven.

Austin, TX—The cultural season has turned here at the South By Southwest Festival, now on day seven. With the end of SXSW Interactive on Tuesday, the internet obsessives shipped out and were replaced yesterday by the cool kids of SXSW Music. Can you tell the difference between rival camps?