During a concert in Norway on Tuesday, Kanye West complained to the crowd that the stage was slippery: "If I fall, someone will film it and it will be all over YouTube." Sure enough, he fell on his ass a few minutes later, as you'll see in the entertaining clip above. [via ONTD]

Jani Lane — the lead singer and songwriter for Warrant, one of the last hair metal bands — was found dead on Thursday evening in a Comfort Inn room in Woodland Hills, near Los Angeles. He was 47. No cause of death has been released.

In a move that surprised no one, Sarah Palin announced on Monday that she would resume her national bus tour this weekend with a stop in—where else?—Iowa. On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert marveled at Palin's ability to soak up media attention at every turn: "Sarah Palin's version of the bat signal is anyone else's spotlight."

Marvin Lane Ussery, a 48-year-old parolee and former inmate at New Folsom in Sacramento, was caught by thermal imaging cameras late Wednesday night sneaking around prison grounds. Asked what he was doing there, Ussery said, kind of touchingly, "reminiscing."

If you weren't in front of a TV this evening—or you just couldn't bear to watch Republicans bicker for two hours straight—and you'd like to catch up on what went down during tonight's GOP presidential debate on Fox News, here's a clip that will fill you in on the highlights/lowlights. The 2012 campaign season sure is shaping up to be lots of fun, huh? [TPM]

The US Postal Service is now faced with a tough decision: raise the price of a single stamp to $179, or fire 120,000 employees. Scenario B would require congressional approval, so as to get around postal union labor laws — but desperate times, etc. etc.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly returned to her show, America Live, on Monday following a three-month maternity leave. Kelly's first order of business? To shame talk radio host Mike Gallagher for calling her maternity leave "a racket." On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart pointed out that Kelly hasn't always been such a big supporter of moms on maternity leave—and he brought out the archival footage to prove it. Video of the segment is above.

At the height of the Second World War, FDR gave a stirring radio address in which he reassured the American public that "no matter how dark the hour, we can take great comfort in knowing that an overpriced gym chain will eventually capitalize on it a decade later with some self-serving, bullshit coupon they damn well know no one will ever use." And what do you know? History has once again gone and repeated itself. Congrats, New York Sports Clubs! You are true patriots, through and through.

The Rebecca Blackettes! Lady Gaga's Slurpee-colored hair! The entire cast of Coney Island Subway Party! BZZZ. All wrong. The Golden Dance Belt went to 19-year-old Melanie Moore (third from left), of Marietta, Ga. Exchange monies accordingly. [People, photo via Fox]

A Mexican drug kingpin who left behind a trail of 600 bodies, many of them dismembered and decapitated, has been arrested. Oscar Garcia, 36, was the leader of The Hand with Eyes — a brutal drug gang responsible for bringing the extreme drug-war violence typically found in northern Mexico into Mexico City and its suburbs.

After similar incidents this summer in Florida and California, now Connecticut is the latest state to fall victim to hidden cameras placed inside Starbucks bathrooms by overcaffeinated voyeurs.

Here's a collage of the depressing quotes from 1,000 students around the world who were asked to quit the internet and all media for a day as part of a University of Maryland study. They became depressed, they became anguished — and they became disgusted with their own dependency.

All of the candidates, except soon-to-be candidate Rick Perry, are in Ames, Iowa for tonight's Republican debate! Oh wait, neither are Gary Johnson or Thaddeus McCotter or the other loser, Buddy something, or the gay guy. But the others, they're there! So grab your Iowa State Fair fried butter stick and turn on America's channel, Fox News. The future starts below.

In 2005, Facebook had 5 million users rather than 500 million. And instead of being at the center of an Oscar-winning Aaron Sorkin movie, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was answering questions from a goofy guy with a camcorder—and explaining the perils of growing Facebook beyond the college market.

It's time for another one of our Project Runway commenter live blogs, and you're invited! Remember, the episodes are 90 minutes long these days, so you may want to run put on your best wee-wee-pad skirt, just to be sure you won't miss anything.

Today, while regarding a gross bodily fluid airplane story, a commenter told us a commuting tale of such extreme horror that we're inclined to believe it's not true. Weigh in for yourself. If it's real, holy shit.

If you are a woman and come within smelling-distance of him, magic secret-sharing gnome Julian Assange will hit on you in excruciatingly awkward fashion. A new eBook offers another prime example of Assange's Casanova act.

Did you know you can get arrested for popping your zits in public? Well, maybe not you, because you don't have warrants out for your arrest. (Do you?) But if you are Owen Lemire Kato of Cape Coral, Florida, and have an OxyContin syringe in your pocket and outstanding drug-related arrests, and spend ten minutes popping the zits on your back outside a local McDonald's, and it ruins everyone's appetites, and some crazy person actually calls the cops to report you for grossing them out?

Your Gawker Political Desk will be offering live blow-by-blow coverage of tonight's Fox News Republican presidential debate in Iowa, starting at 9pm ET. Join us for what is sure to be a civil, adult discussion about America's future.

The British Home Secretary will meet with the companies behind Twitter and BlackBerry to discuss whether they can help curb the nation's riots. It was only a few months ago that cracking down on social networks was considered the province of despots. Now the British government is making it sound like an essential step for safety.