Remember when former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin performed a vlog where she accused the media of perpetrating blood libel ("a false accusation... that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in... religious rituals") against her? Turns out she asked the advice of the only person on the planet who might have thought that speech was a good idea. And even he said no! New York's Gabriel Sherman writes:

The Queen Mother's private record collection has been released! (You were, no doubt, awaiting this moment with bated breath.) She was, unsurprisingly, a big fan of musicals (The King and I and Oklahoma!), as well as, apparently, ska:

In this Happy Thoughts clip, Daniel Tosh thinks the winter Olympics is pointless, scolds America for the whole Michael Phelps debacle, and then details how Phelps should have called Kobe Bryant's publicist when he got caught smoking weed.

Alain Schaberger, an 11-year veteran of the NYPD, died on Sunday when he was allegedly shoved over a stoop railing in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn while attempting to handcuff a suspect. Schaberger was attempting to arrest George Villanueva, an ex-convict whose girlfriend had accused him of making death threats earlier in the day; the police officer had apparently placed one of Villanueva's wrists in the handcuffs when the ex-convict, who had been drinking, shoved him with both hands. According to police reports, Schaberger tumbled over the railing, falling nine feet and landing on his head. He fractured his neck, and died in the hospital. Villanueva had been arrested for domestic violence against his girlfriend just a month earlier, on Feb. 4, but his girlfriend refused to press charges. Both Schaberger and Villanueva are 42. [NYDN]

It seems like each new video to come out of Japan's tsunami is more harrowing than the last, and this is the worst we've seen: a six-minute video taken from the street as the tsunami literally washes a town away. James MacWhyte, an American living in Tokyo, posted this video to Facebook.

Chris Lee, Western New York's Craigslist Congressman, has refunded more than 1,100 campaign donations he raised in 2010 and 2011. In the letter that went out to donors he wrote: "I regret very much how my actions affected my family, staff and constituents… I make no excuses for my behavior. It was wrong." [Buffalo News, Image via AP]

The saga of West Coast Productions' porno Teen Anal Nightmare 2 is long and twisted. Last November, the law firm Adult Copyright Company filed a record-breaking lawsuit against 9,729 anonymous BitTorrent users who allegedly pirated the film. A Judge threw it out, ruling that each defendant would have to be sued individually. The Electronic Frontier Foundation singled out the lawsuit as a particularly egregious example of "copyright trolling." "The motivation behind these cases appears to be to leverage the risk of embarrassment associated with pornography to coerce settlement payments despite serious problems with the underlying claims," the EFF wrote in a statement.

USA Today reports that over 800 people were injured today when the government of Bahrain called in plain clothes thugs and police to disperse protesters in the capital, Manama.

Owsley "Bear" Stanley, one of the most prolific LSD producers of all time, was killed in a car accident in his adopted home of Australia today. The Bear was also a noted sound engineer, and at one time financed the Grateful Dead. He and his acid were also featured in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Bear hung out with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey, and other noteworthy druggies from that time. He was thought to be around 76 years old.

Hillary Clinton's chief spokesman P.J. Crowley has resigned abruptly after a blogger quoted him candidly criticizing the "mistreatment" of alleged Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid." This evidently pissed off the White House because it let Jake Tapper ask Obama an embarrassing question about Manning at a press conference. Crowley is out amid "pressure from White House officials because of controversial comments he made last week about the Bradley Manning case," according to CNN.

When CollegeHumor combines the worlds of Star Fox and Wes Anderson, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy find their leader a bit more emotional and self-reflective than before. Only with Anderson's help, it seems, could Star Fox find his true enemy: himself.

It's been a while since we last heard news about Carl Paladino — Buffalo's millionaire slumlord-turned failed New York gubernatorial candidate. Well, the Buffalo News has an update on our favorite Tea Partier from the north! Crazy Carl has decided that he doesn't need to pay the campaign staffers, consultants and vendors who helped him run against Andrew Cuomo. According to ex-staffers interviewed by the paper, Paladino still owes out about $130,000 in various fees and salaries. According to ex-staffer Tim Suereth:

• At the Nerd BBQ fest South by Southwest, some guy tried to take Jake Gyllenhaal's picture at the premier of his nerd thriller Source Code… while he was in the bathroom peeing. Ew, guy! Jake confronted the guy, who eventually deleted it. And of course, it being South By Southwest, the whole ordeal was live-tweeted: Wrote one guy: "Gyllenhaal apparently grabbed the dude mid-photo, threw him against the wall and was like, ‘are we really gonna do this right now?'" Clearly, Jake needs to take a lesson in transparency from James Franco, just tweets pictures of his (maybe) penis before anyone else has a chance to. [HollywoodNews]

Anti-Qaddafi rebels continued to lose ground to government loyalists today, as the eastern town of Brega fell and a mass exodus began toward Benghazi. Meanwhile, the Arab League has asked the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over the country.

The phrase "jump the shark" references the Happy Days episode where Fonzie did just that. It's commonly used to describe the moment when a TV show goes down hill, after which it will never be as good as it was.

Yesterday, a day after Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a union-busting bill into law, up to 100,000 protesters gathered at the state capitol — which police said was bigger than protests during the Vietnam War.

As Japan struggles to contain partial meltdowns at two nuclear reactors, over 200,000 people have been evacuated from the immediate area. An explosion is feared at another reactor, and both were experiencing some level of core melting. Meanwhile, officials said the death toll in Miyagi prefecture is over 10,000. The prime minister has doubled the number of deployed troops to 100,000. Here's a roundup of the latest news, with updates throughout the day.

In a promo for tonight's Zach Galifianakis-hosted SNL (see it here), the funnyman—famous for shaving his beard when he hosted last year—declared, "This time, I'm shaving off everything." He didn't—but he did close the show sporting a fauxhawk!

Tonight, Zach Galifianakis followed up his show-stopping Saturday Night Live monologue with an equally funny digital short, during which he interviewed several children for an assistant position. Which one of the little tykes landed the gig? Watch and find out.

Tonight, Zach Galifianakis is hosting Saturday Night Live, and—if his monologue was any indication—we're in for a funny evening. Because he absolutely killed it. Hilarious stand-up jokes, awkward silences, and an Annie lip sync?! Like. A. Boss. [Gawker.TV]