Before dropping me off in the dark, dank sewer water of my bottom, my addiction took me to a variety of fun places. It was my addiction, not historically the best decision-maker, which led me to the sex industry. [Jezebel]

Scientists who study islands have apparently been sleeping on the job for years, because get this: Researchers have discovered 657 new islands around the world, making for a grand total of 2,149.

Squinty boor Donald Trump has secured a crucial endorsement! Gary Busey, the wild-eyed actor and celebrity apprentice, is not only campaigning for Trump, but has created an acronymic "Busey-ism" in support of the candidate: "Taking Redirection, Understanding Massive Power." Poetic and political!

According to a wellbeing surveys taken by Gallup in 2010, the U.S. is the 12th-happiest country in the world. Take that, Costa Rica and Austria!

Sex slavery, human trafficking, detention camps: The next big Facebook game forgoes farming and city building to explore concepts of universal human rights, violence against women and a future America stripped of civil liberties. [Kotaku]

Kathy Michelle Coy, a 33-year-old Kentucky mother of two, allegedly befriended a pregnant woman on Facebook before subduing her with a stun gun, killing her, and cutting out the baby with a drywall knife.

For many of us, Facebook is home to a lot of our online communications-including our most private. Keep other people from getting into your account with these new Facebook features. [Lifehacker]

Today we were presented with the grim truth that Arnold Schwarzenegger's son will soon take over the world. Curious. It must be weird to be Arnold Schwarzenegger's son. How weird? One commenter had a little insight.

Yes, it's Hunger Games time again, and the Ryan-Quaid offspring is one of today's selected tributes. Also today: The Good Wife keeps on a good character, Christopher Nolan keeps on some good actors, Demi Lovato bows out of Disney, and Isla Fisher heads to West Egg.

We've previously established the fact that private school consultants are the worst. The question now becomes: Are they still the worst? The very latest reports indicate: yes. They are still the worst.

Google and Facebook are fierce rivals, and spar over advertising, access to private information, and talented engineers. Given the two companies' obvious mutual obsession, why is Google co-founder Sergey Brin so secretive about having a Facebook account?

When Portland's Don Derfler looked out his window and saw the mailman lingering in his neighbor's yard, "I thought he had a bunch of packages for us." Oh, yes, he did. Derfler continues:

In a bid to show its transparency bona fides, the CIA has released six previously secret documents from World War I, thirty years before the Agency was created. They concern invisible ink. Which, until today, was a national secret.

Here's your daily afternoon video of vomit-faced dandy Donald Trump saying something hilarious in his pretend run for president!

Here's an ad for Canadian car dealership Dale Wurfel, which seems to be trying to sell used cars with a little (unauthorized) help from fashion designer Tom Ford. The tag line: "You know you're not the first. But do you really care?" When you put it like that, no, we don't!

One portion of the devastating documentary about the global financial collapse, Inside Job (which won an Oscar, so you have to see it), dealt with academic economists—specifically, the ways that they became financially tied to banks and other players in finance, and how that may have compromised the entire practice of economics. It even showed the heads of the economic departments at Harvard (pictured) and Columbia blithely asserting that there was no need to disclose their financial conflicts of interest in academic papers. It was sickening.

Do you fancy yourself a pop culture aficionado? Can you stomach watching daytime television trash, 24-hour news networks, reality programming, or any combination of the three? Do you have enough willpower to keep your eyes glued to a television screen for hours at a time?

God save the bizarre coincidence (conflict of interest?)! The Daily reports today that Alice St. Clair, who will play Kate Middleton in the Hallmark Channel's William and Kate: A Royal Love Story (not to be confused with William & Kate: Let Love Rule on Lifetime), is the daughter of Peter Loughborough, who happens to be the head of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Group, a department of Scotland Yard that's responsible for securing, among other things, all the royals during the wedding. Awkward! [Photo of St. Clair via Carly Otness/Billy Farrell Agency; photo of Middleton via Getty Images]

Carole Markin has revealed herself as the woman who sued Match.com, ultimately forcing them to screen new members against the national sex offender registry. Her decision to go public is brave. But could her crusade be a mistake? [Jezebel]

The Federal Trade Commission is asking federal judges in six states to shut down a total of 10 "fake news websites" that front as credible journalism outlets but really just hype the AMAZING WEIGHT-LOSS POTENTIAL OF ACAI BERRIES ™ !!!!!