You Can Still Afford to Get Cancer!

Hamilton Nolan · 06/06/11 04:40PM

Melanoma cure! Cancer treatment! Expensive drugs! Flaxseed fail! Risky gays! Wrinkle bones! Smoking bans! Swiss prostitution! And ER hang-out shocker! It's your Monday Health Watch, where we watch your health—pusillanimously!

Lady Gaga Criticizes Steve Jobs To His Face

Ryan Tate · 06/06/11 04:15PM

Who is the one person allowed to stand up to corporate diva Steve Jobs and criticize the Apple CEO to his face? That would, of course, be musical diva Lady Gaga, who recently talked a little trash at Apple headquarters.

Woman Faints During Santorum's Presidential Announcement

Maureen O'Connor · 06/06/11 04:12PM

Every time Sen. Rick Santorum mentions his presidential run, something ominous happens. This morning, a balloon spontaneously exploded while Santorum was yammering about his plan for Medicare. Then, while announcing his candidacy this afternoon, an onlooker collapsed a couple feet away from Santorum's podium. Next, Rick Santorum will summon plagues of locust and lice to announce how he will deal with the debt ceiling. [ABC News]

The Totally Awesome View from Inside a Hula Hoop

Brian Moylan · 06/06/11 04:07PM

Ever wonder what a hula hoop sees while it winds around and around its undulating subject? Well wonder no more! Someone attached a camera to the semi-ironic-totally-nostalgic fauxhemian toy of the moment and filmed the results. It's actually a very cool and interesting shot that might give you quite a bit of vertigo. Does this mean the Greenpoint set will be moving on to yo-yos any day now? [BuzzFeed]

Anthony Weiner Admits to Sending Crotch Shot

Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 03:43PM

In a tearful statement to the media, Rep. Anthony Weiner this afternoon admitted he posted a picture of his own dick to Twitter. Not only that, he says he's engaged in "inappropriate" online communications with at least six other women.

Andrew Breitbart Inexplicably Crashes Anthony Weiner Press Conference

Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 03:24PM

Anthony Weiner was scheduled to hold a press conference at 4pm to address Weinergate. Well, four o'clock came around and Weiner didn't show up. But Andrew Breitbart, whose Big Government website first published the original Weinergate photo, did.

The Vow: Who Could Forget Channing Tatum?

Richard Lawson · 06/06/11 03:14PM

Here's a trailer for The Vow, a Nicholas Sparksian drama that, shockingly, Nicholas Sparks had nothing to do with. The film is actually based on the true story of a woman with amnesia struggling to learn to love her husband again.

Korean Susan Boyle Is the Most Hard Knock Susan Boyle Yet

Maureen O'Connor · 06/06/11 02:46PM

Just when you thought you were immune to the Susan Boyles of the world, along comes Korea's Got Talent's Sung-Bong Choi. With downcast eyes, 22-year-old Choi says he was abandoned at the age of three, then ran away from his orphanage at the age five and lived as a street kid for the next ten years, peddling chewing gum and sleeping outside public restrooms "like a dayfly." Now he's a manual laborer with a penchant for Italian opera. Here he is performing his debut aria, while every single female in the audience sobs uncontrollably.

This Is iCloud

Remy Stern · 06/06/11 02:42PM

Apple's iCloud has emerged from the shadows, providing wireless backup and syncing for your apps, songs, documents, books, photos, videos, calendars and contacts. Best of all, it's free. Here's a few of iCloud's more notable features. [Gizmodo]

Roger Ailes Wants You to Throw a Rock Through His Window

John Cook · 06/06/11 02:35PM

Roger Ailes, the totally paranoid chairman of Fox News, called up Newsweek/The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz over the weekend to fight back against some of the bad press he's seen over the last couple weeks. Kurtz dutifully wrote down the things Ailes said irrespective of their truth value, and then published them online.

How Are Critics Liking the Hot New Sarah Palin Documentary?

Jim Newell · 06/06/11 01:49PM

The documentary about herself that Sarah Palin secretly commissioned, The Undefeated — a.k.a. Triumph of the Grift — will debut in Iowa at some point later this month. And some lucky film connoisseurs, mostly all for conservative publications, have already viewed advance copies! So does it give Errol Morris a run for his money, or is it undiluted shite? Critics are torn.

Anthony Weiner Is Your New Topless Congressman

Adrian Chen · 06/06/11 01:15PM

Here's a new picture of a bare-chested Anthony Weiner, which a young woman says he emailed her on May 20, 2011. If you look closely, you can see Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, cuddling in a picture in the background. You can also see Weiner with Bill Clinton in the picture over his left shoulder. If only Weiner had caught Clinton's stare in the mirror's reflection—he may have reconsidered what he was about to do!

Catholics Take on the Republican Cult of Ayn Rand

Jim Newell · 06/06/11 12:50PM

Right-wingers have long been fascinated by Ayn Rand, the mid-century pop philosopher who defined moral behavior as doing whatever will make you, the individual, happy, and opposed any government intervention in the economy or charitable giving. Based on her economic beliefs, you can understand why, for example, Rep. Paul Ryan makes each of his staff members read her most famous novel Atlas Shrugged. But shouldn't it bother some of these right-wingers that she was, to use their own language, a "radical atheist," too?

Apple Is Insulted You Think Steve Jobs Could Ever Die

Ryan Tate · 06/06/11 12:24PM

Apple has turned a routine refresh of Steve Jobs' obituary into an occasion for a full blown media war, asking Jobs' associates to stonewall the Associated Press and allowing it to be known that they are "furious" about commonplace journalism.