Patti LaBelle Sued For Getting Into Screaming Match with Toddler

Seth Abramovitch · 11/16/11 03:43AM

Lady Marmalade, The Soul of Philadelphia, the one, the only, Miss Patti LaBelle: Get your kids the fuck away from her. That's the only reasonable takeaway, really, from a lawsuit filed against the singer by a family who lived in the same, Trump-owned tenement structure on the Upper West Side as LaBelle.

Secret Service Wondering Who Fired a Bullet Into the White House

Seth Abramovitch · 11/16/11 02:38AM

Hey guys, the Secret Service just wanted to know how a bullet wound up being fired through a White House window. No biggie! The bulletproof glass made sure the bullet didn't go inside the White House, but all the same, they'd really like to know how it got there.

Bill Maher: Elisabeth Hasselbeck 'Had Some Bug Up Her Ass'

Matt Cherette · 11/16/11 01:56AM

Elisabeth Hasselbeck had quite a bone to pick with Bill Maher on The View this morning about a joke he'd told about her months ago, and pick it she did. One would think he'd mind being attacked, but on tonight's Late Show, Maher told David Letterman he was actually pleased with how she reacted: "Thank you, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, for making me look good!"

Stephen Colbert Celebrates the Demise of Occupy Wall Street

Matt Cherette · 11/16/11 12:52AM

In an early morning raid on Tuesday, NYPD officers began removing Occupy Wall Street protesters from Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. The eviction drew negative reactions from many, but on tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert celebrated the cleanup: "The founders never intended indefinite free speech; they assumed that, after two weeks, any protest would be wiped out by smallpox."

Only Smart Kids Do Drugs

Max Read · 11/16/11 12:34AM

A new study indicates that young children with high IQs are significantly more likely to have done illegal drugs later in life, even when controlling for other factors. So you finally have a comeback when your dad says Why do you think they call it dope?!

Jon Stewart Goes Off on Jerry Sandusky

Matt Cherette · 11/15/11 11:37PM

In an unbearable phone interview with Bob Costas on last night's Rock Center, accused Penn State child rapist Jerry Sandusky kinda-sorta denied being sexually attracted to young boys. On tonight's Daily Show, an indignant Jon Stewart unloaded on Sandusky: "You can't even bring yourself to lie emphatically!"

Festive Guy on Bath Salts Breaks into Home, Puts Up Christmas Decorations

Max Read · 11/15/11 10:38PM

It's getting to be that time of the year, folks! You know what I'm talking about: that time of the year when love and peace fill the atmosphere, the scent of pine and eggnog permeates the air, and 44-year-old men, high on bath salts, walk into your home and put up your Christmas decorations.

4chan Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine

Adrian Chen · 11/15/11 06:50PM

4chan, everyone's favorite pile of internet poop, has been mostly unavailable for the past two day due to a massive distributed denial-of-service attack. Hard to shed a tear for the 4channers, whose Anonymous denizens are pioneers of the DDoS.

Occupy Wall Street's Losing Day in Zuccotti Park

Leah Beckmann · 11/15/11 06:23PM

Occupy Wall Street has officially lost the legal battle to occupy Zuccotti Park. While the public is now permitted to re-enter the park, a judge ruled this afternoon that protesters won't be allowed to bring tents or tarps with them, or lie down in the park.

Better Talk to Your Kids About Sex All the Time

Hamilton Nolan · 11/15/11 05:34PM

Sex talk! Chewing tobacco! Cholesterol drugs! Womb psychology! Weight coaching! Baby abdomen! Kiwi heart! Medication erection! And hearing loss, say what? Haha. It's your Tuesday Health Watch, where we watch your health—age-appropriately!