A photo posted to the official White House Flickr stream contained within it — as identified by the eagle eyes of Politico's Josh Gerstein — a single morsel of Nicorette chewing gum sitting on the Oval Office desk. The past weeks of debt ceiling tsuris would have broken far stronger men, however, so we should perhaps give thanks that the strongest thing the president's been craving lately is a Marlboro Red. [White House Flickr via Vulture]

It's been more than six months—and several talk show appearances—since Ricky Gervais made all those controversial jokes at the Golden Globes, so surely he's done talking about it, right? Not so much, actually, as you'll see in this exchange Gervais had with David Letterman on tonight's Late Show, during which he said "I don't think I should" when asked if he'd host the awards show again.

Faye Dunaway is a much-feared resident of West Hollywood. That's pretty much common knowledge. Ask around a bit, and you're sure to hear a tale or two about the star of Mommie Dearest and Network terrorizing a Koo Koo Roo or holding an El Salvadorian car wash employee hostage with a barbecue lighter. And like any Norma Desmond worth her salt, Dunaway has more than a few skeletons squirreled away in her closet. Some of them are literal skeletons of Thai food delivery boys who'd forgotten her chicken satay. Others, however, are figurative skeletons — shadily held property holdings, for example, such as the one-bedroom walk-up on East 78th St. she's been calling her "primary residence" since 1994.

12-year-old Ronan Parke is the breakout star of the current season of Britain's Got Talent. Here's a video of him covering Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory." He's not half bad but—just like his lesbian counterpart—we can't get past Ronan's uncanny resemblance to Justin Bieber. That hair! [via BuzzFeed]

Do you see this rat, in the picture above? This is the "African crested" or "maned" rat. Do not eat this rat. Its hair is poisonous.

During a Daily Show segment about the News of the World phone hacking scandal on July 20, Jon Stewart included footage of Britain's parliament. But when the show aired in the U.K. last week, the segment was absent, apparently due to a law that prevents the airing of parliamentary proceedings in a satirical context. Stewart didn't appreciate the censorship, and he took to tonight's program to air his grievances.

CNN anchor John King's show John King U.S.A. is usually very boring. But not tonight! No, tonight a homeless guy jumped the White House fence right behind where King was shooting. Take that, MSNBC!

Admitted Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has a bunch of demands. Some are pretty easy: Cigarettes! Clothes! Norway has plenty of those things. Some are a little more difficult: Command of the Norwegian army! "The complete overthrow of the Norwegian and European societies"!

Remember when that video of actor Bradley Cooper speaking French was going around? I was all, What's the big deal? It's just this really handsome guy speaking fluently in the most romantic language on the planet? Well! I think I sort of "get it" now.

In the U.S., mayors deal with cars parked in bike lanes by saying We have bike lanes? Are you sure? In Lithuania, mayors deal with cars parked in bike lanes by running them over with a goddamn tank.

Today we heard the strange tale of a man in a rabbit suit who is terrorizing a small town. Oh no! Bunnies are supposed to be nice, not scary. But scary they are, now. Looks like we need to change all our children's songs. Luckily, one commenter got us started.

Ever wonder what happened to former South Carolina Governor/paperback romance novel character Mark Sanford? Gothamist spotted him checking his OKCupid profile on the 2 train this afternoon in New York. (Actually probably not, since he's still together with the Argentine TV reporter, María Belén Chapur, with whom he took that fateful trek up the Appalachian Trail.)

TV's favorite sexy uncle (ew? ew) is getting back in the leading man saddle. Also today: good news for Ana Gasteyer, godly news for Miley Cyrus, and Game of Thrones news for the rest of us dorks.

Will this plague of zoo animal escapes never end? Animal New York reports that a peacock has escaped from the Central Park Zoo, and is hanging out in a windowsill at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 65th Street. City Room notes that apartments in the building have been up for sale for as much as $24 million. I wouldn't give that up for the zoo, either. [AnimalNY, City Room, image via AnimalNY]

Country bullfrog Miley Cyrus has made it big and now lives the high life in Los Angeles. Though she bought a new place near her family's home in Toluca Lake two years ago, she's already moving on, asserting a little independence. So it's to Studio City for her!

Washington Post style reporter Dan Zak wrote a dispatch for the section's "Night Lives" column about D.C.'s Guardian Angels.

To prove just how rich and famous and European she is, Kate Moss is currently on vacation in the south of France and jumped off a yacht—topless. Over there, it's nothing major, but in puritanical America this is horribly scandalous. Toplessness! In public! How dare you!

Lost in the coverage of Vladimir Putin calling the U.S. a "parasite" was this image of Vladimir Putin bending a cooking pan with his bare hands. If Barack Obama doesn't bend two pans tonight in front of TV cameras then Putin's right, we are parasites.

Philip Cabibi, a 31-year-old applications administrator in Utah, sat at his computer one recent Sunday evening and performed one of the compulsive rituals of the Internet Age: the ego search. He typed his name into Google to take a quick survey of how the internet sees him, like a glance in the mirror.

Now that the debt ceiling's been raised and all uncertainty removed from the markets, the Dow Jones will respond by... dropping 265 points on the day. The reason is that the economy is terrible.