Organized labor in America is a pitiful shadow of its former might. There's one exception, though: prison inmates.

Miley Cyrus stays calm in the wake of her bong-ripping scandal. Jennifer Grey has yet to recover from the pain of dancing with Bristol Palin. Kim Kardashian's new lover crosses a threshold: First photo op. Monday gossip soldiers on.

When he's not busy shooting whales with a crossbow, chilling with his bro Silvio Berlusconi, or riding horseback with no shirt, Vladimir Putin regales the likes of Kevin Costner and Sharon Stone with creepily bloodless renditions of Fats Domino hits.

Today just feels...weird, right? You know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how lesbian lesbian-obsessed tabloid sex columnist Andrea Peyser is trying to mock Oprah by insinuating that she (Oprah) is lesbian. Is this opposite day in sexxxy land?

Family friends say that Ruth Madoff blames Bernie for their son Mark's suicide, and believes this is "the end of the family." Mark Madoff hanged himself with a dog leash in his apartment Saturday morning. No one deserves that. [NYP]

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

One of the most amazing things to behold is a shuttle launch. Here are three different ones back to back captured in beautiful slow motion.

Who likes games? Great! Well step right up and test your popular television show knowledge but trying to figure out the names of these shows.

[A man contemplates his dryness as a wall of water along the Mediterranean coast in Sidon, Lebanon, gets very close. Much of the Middle East was hit with crazy weather today. Image via AP]

Discussion of Julian Assange's sex life of late has focused on the rape and sexual molestation charges filed against him by two Swedish women. But he was once a nerdy Australian posting on OKCupid under the pseudonym "Harry Harrison".

On his blog today, NYT columnist Paul Krugman opens a post with, "I don't usually bother looking at the Washington Post." Good call! For this "sin," Krugman ends up reading WaPo buffoon Dana Milbank, and promptly tears him apart. [NYT]

Nicki Minaj is a force to be reckoned with these days. Here in her MTV special My Time Now, she discusses and rejects the ridiculous double standards she and all women face in business and life.

Williamsburg is the "new front line of the gentrification battle." Who knew?

Want to know exactly what it feels like to run Wikileaks? Play this game. You, Julian Assange, must sneak into the oval office and download 300,000 classified documents from Barack Obama's laptop using a thumb drive while he sleeps.

Bill Hader's impression of the founder of WikiLeaks appeared again on SNL with a list of sites he'll mess with until he's out of jail. The list will affect us all: Amazon, Orbitz, Facebook, Farmville, and the beloved Netflix queue.

Prince William and Kate get cuddly. Nicole Richie gets married, elephant in tow. Miley Cyrus soldiers on despite bong-ripping controversy, and Madonna is banned from TV. Sunday gossip round up is a blizzard of titillating details

The Post has uncovered an evil, stealthy assault on Christmas and it's coming from a place you'd least expect it — the YMCA! Yes, Manhattan's McBurney Y is snubbing Santa Claus for Frosty the Snowman at this year's kids luncheon.

Apparently this Japanese man has a close relationship with his pet bird, because he allows the bird to stick its beak in his mouth repeatedly during dinner.

Mustachioed Islamophobe Terry Jones has found some new friends in Britain and he's going to visit them. The extreme-right, Tea Party-friendly English Defence League has invited Jones to a party next year — and they even pretend to like Jews!

As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure, right?