For those of you who haven't heard the sad news, today is Richard Lawson's (second) last day here at Gawker. We're very sad to lose him. So we're expressing our grief with this documentary about his life here as an internet scribbler. Enjoy!

Anderson Cooper has been to war zones, hurricane disaster sites, and the Roxy after 6am, so he knows something about scary places. But what's the one thing that the unflappable newsman is scared of? Bugs.

HPV boys! Chest X-rays! Aging secrets! Bat disease! Old pacemakers! Filthy surface! Coffee protection! Super broccoli! And gurl U no U better keep taking that birth control! It's your Wednesday Health Watch, where we watch your health—in technicolor!

Even though their parents are picketing the court house to get them back, 5-year-old Adolf Hitler and his three-year-old sister Aryan Nation are still in foster care after being taken away from their parents last year.

Rick Perry's Texas campaign ads came a long way from their simplistic, early days, when he would just play around in sausage factories. By 2009, at the start of his most recent gubernatorial campaign, he'd set his sights on higher vistas: harnessing the power of social media. Watch as a smug little cartoon figure flops around while narrator Perry explains how to use Twitter, "a 'microblog' used to connect with friends and find out what they are doing."

More and more people are hating Facebook in increasingly effective ways, and for increasingly better reasons. Good times. Too bad it will probably do nothing to keep Facebook from transforming the internet into an unbearably bland prison-mall.

Here's the way it is: the rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. The middle class is disappearing. Prices are rising. Hope is fading. But uh... don't let it get you down.

How much does Michele Bachmann's campaign hate New Hampshire? So much, say her ex-staffers there. And now it's mailed in her ballot paperwork instead of staging the usual in-person event. How rude! New Hampshire doesn't take kindly to mail.

Oversexed youth Courtney Stodden and her creepy actor husband Doug Hutchison have broken their silence on getting kicked out of a pumpkin patch for being too sexy.

Many years ago when you were young, back in 2006, a wizened old man named John McCain made a joke that Congress' approval rating was so low, "we're down to paid staffers and blood relatives."

This morning on bad idea ball pit Fox & Friends, the melting Crisco sculpture known as Gretchen Carlson got outraged over a new program that requires "translation assistance" for the non-English speaking parents of Cleveland public school students. Boy was she mad!

First Ashton Kutcher, then Leonardo DiCaprio, and now Bar Refaeli. The Israeli supermodel is helping to complete the tech industry's co-optation by pretty people now that she's taken a stake in an Israeli underwear e-tailer.

Tim Lovell and Theresa Hasselberg thought their brother Harold was among the eight unidentified victims of crazy clown serial killer John Wayne Gacy but it turns out he was alive in Florida the whole time. He just didn't want to talk to them!

In your wacky Wednesday media column: Christiane Amanpour's reportedly unhappy, the New Orleans paper's crazy Twitter scheme, the Hackgate Phone Zero located, and Wikileaks isn't so easy to copy after all.

Rick Perry has spent a few days going out of his way to question the validity of President Obama's birth certificate, either because he has actual doubts or just wants to make some jokes with Donald Trump.

How much LiLo will we see in Playboy? "The holy trifecta," TMZ reports. "Boobs, ass, and vag" according to TMZ's Playboy source.

One basic characteristic of journalism is this: its content is not bought and paid for and directed by an advertiser. It might be vapid. It might be poorly written. It might be damn near worthless. But it's not an advertisement.

The sturdy foundation of Mitt Romney is rattling more and more, as he prepares to explode. He is making 2008-style unforced errors with some regularity now!

In the wake of an international scandal in which a toddler was run over and left to die in the street, China's communist government is cracking down on public morals. Step one: banning reality television shows.

Christian Audigier, the founder of Ed Hardy and French-born creator of countless aesthetic blights on humanity, has listed both of his California dreamboat mansions.