Georgia Rep. Paul Broun is in trouble after it was revealed that the first question at a town hall event he hosted this week was, 'Who's going to shoot Obama?' The crowd laughed at this hilarious joke and so, reportedly, did Rep. Broun. A great scoop—and one broken by a random newspaper commenter.

Either Paula Deen is high from suckin' on heads of shrimp or she's knocked back a few early-morning drinks in at the Food Network's Wine and Food festival. Paula blames it on "eye problems" but Meredith sees right through it.

Hollywood's and, really, the nation's biggest night of the year, the Academy Awards ceremony, is almost here! There's a good chance some of you have been hoodwinked into throwing a few dollars into an office Oscar pool, so we'd like to help you. Here are our picks for who and what are going to win the precious trophies.

After refusing at first, Kathie Lee decides that because Frank used to eat dog food during the war area when his family was poverty-stricken, she'd try—but not without saying she'd bring it home "to bring back memories" first.

In your gusty Friday media column: Kathleen Parker may be doomed, Adweek's big reinvention approaches, the Iraqi shoe-thrower gets nabbed again, the USA vs. James Risen, and Dylan Ratigan's not holy after all.

According to Wendy Williams, the golden rule in wig-wearing must have slipped John Travolta's mind when photographed sans hairpiece recently. Ultimately, she poses the real question looming over our heads: will Travolta's wig show itself come Oscar Sunday?

Vice President Joe Biden is making a tour of the local community college campuses and is set to meet with the Dean and the student body president. One problem: Greendale has no student body president. Quick, to the make-shift elections!

Of all the creatures on Jersey Shore, the most important sociological experiment of our time, Snooki is possibly the most vulnerable. Last night we saw attacks on the little heffalump from all directions. She barely survived, and there is danger on the horizon.

For the first time in the history of red spray paint in the vicinity of a poster girl's breasts, a vandal made a billboard less sexual. To advertise an exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the billboard in Long Lake, MN featured a 16th-century Titian painting of Venus. The vandal painted a red tube top over Venus' breasts and commented, "Brrr!"

This must be every basketball payer's worst nightmare. Hopefully, this guy wasn't seriously injured. But lying stunned on the floor, covered in shards of glass might affect his dunking skills for a while.

If you've never gotten excited about an algorithm before, now's your chance. Yesterday Google unveiled changes in their magical search formula designed specifically to weed out results from annoying content farms that churn out dumb articles like "How to Boil Water." Google says the change should affect around 11 percent of all searches and yield more useful information.

The White House doesn't appoint nearly enough openly gay people for administration positions, it's been said, by someone, at some point. But now that's all over. They have appointed an openly gay man, Jeremy Bernard, to be secretary of defense. No just kidding; America isn't "there" yet. He'll be White House social secretary.

This fan-made trailer of the Archie comics brings to life the seedy underbelly of Riverdale high and unspoken issues in the comics. Jughead is gay?! Reggie's a cokehead?! Veronica is... well, we all knew Veronica was kind of a whore.

It was shots! shots! shots! on last night's Late Night when Snooki brought along fried pickles and a round of shots to the interview. Is Snooki taking cues from Jason Sudekis?

It was starting to look like the real life version of Air Bud: World Pup until the Police Officer came to ruin all the fun.

Facebook has disabled Breakup Notifier, the controversial app that automatically informed you when a girl or guy you fancied changed their relationship status to single. Into the void steps WaitingRoom, which represents a massive leap in Facebook-stalking technology.

So this is how former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty thinks he's going to get a few people — up to four, we'll say — interested in his presidential candidacy: Michael Bay style action movies, about everything. First there was the generic teaser, from a few weeks ago. Now he's made one in support of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his union-smushin' efforts. It directs you to a website, StandingWithScott.com, which redirects you to Tim Pawlenty's "Freedom First" PAC. TPaw's one clever motherfucker, eh? That's why he'll keep making these great, apocalyptic action movies, forever.

In advance of Sunday night's Academy Awards, a million magazines and websites have been predicting who will end up winning the big awards. But what about all the other things people will be talking about Monday morning? Here are our predictions for the things you really care about.

Last night's The Big Bang Theory brought Sheldon severely out of his comfort zone when the group starts to eat their dinners at Raj's. What about tradition?! What about Thursdays?! What about LeVar Burton?!

Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist whose default philosophy is a mix of "Cranky old white male extreme conservative" and "a little too religious for comfort." He also has a disturbing face!