Here's how politics work in Russia: be as corrupt as you want, as long as you keep your mouth shut; but criticize those above you, and they'll use their media lackeys to crush you. Just like America, in other words.

Meredith Grey seemed to have a lock on all the negative energy circulating around Seattle Grace Hospital. But after last season's game changing shooting, it looks like now there's plenty of dark and twisty energy to go around.

Michael Kors was in a finely disapproving fashionista form last night as he proceeded to wipe the floor with each designer's sad creations. Does it seem like he's getting meaner and meaner each episode this season to you?

The bankrupt Philly papers have been sold to senior lenders for $105 million. Renaissance time!

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

Another fall comes filled with the delights of the Dunder-Mifflin Conference Room, where Michael has to explain why his lazy nephew gets to keep working in the building. Click through for video.

The Karaoke World Championships are under way right now in Russia! Singers from around the world have gathered for three days of intense competition, but only one person will leave Moscow with the first prize of one million dumplings.

New York's creepiest-looking couple, Sandy and Brenda Frank, filed assault charges against each other last month after a fight over money and alleged infidelity. All charges were dismissed because there were no witnesses and the two refused to assist police.

Yesterday Virginia executed 41-year-old Teresa Lewis. For her last meal, she requested "two fried chicken breasts, sweet peas with butter, a piece of German cake or apple pie for dessert, and a Dr. Pepper." What would you choose?

Who: Real estate developer Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the chairman of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate developers in the United States, and the owner of U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News.

A 17-year-old animal rights activist was lassoed and dragged by rodeo riders in Chile last weekend after she and another protester entered the corral and disrupted the Patriotic Celebration Festival. Chilean cowboys take their rodeo riding seriously.

[Sharon Stone generously spared $5 for a homeless person yesterday outside Mr. Chow Restaurant in Beverly Hills under the watchful eye of her publicist, Paul Bloch. Photos via Splash News]

James Gosling couldn't stand working for Larry Ellison, the notorious founder of Oracle. Ellison is casting an increasingly fearsome shadow over Silicon Vally these days, but Java inventor Gosling is freely proclaiming that the CEO screwed over his employees.

Disgraced former New York governor Eliot "Three a Day" Spitzer has spoken out about his old nemesis (and Democratic gubernatorial candidiate) Andrew Cuomo, calling him "the dirtiest, nastiest political player out there." Wait a second... oh nevermind. [NYT]

A 25-year-old "habitual felon" and convict named Eric Chambers has been charged for trying to sneak a Samsung cell phone into a prison in North Carolina. He twice set off metal detectors before police found a phone in his ass.

A Mexican journalist, Jorge Luis Aguirre has been granted asylum in the U.S. after receiving death threats from drug cartels.

Eddie Fisher, the popular 1950's crooner, died Wednesday in California at age 82. Besides his successful music career, Fisher was married to Elizabeth Taylor, Connie Stevens and Debbie Reynolds. He and Reynolds were actress Carrie Fisher's parents.

What do you do when you've been cooped up in a house on South Beach for a few weeks with nothing but endless booze and catty fights? You revert to college style antics and pranks, like tonight's Jersey Shore.

On Wednesday, 80 pilot whales become stranded on a beach in New Zealand and 50 of them died on the first day. Today, rescuers are transporting the 24 surviving whales by truck to more sheltered waters 30 miles away.

On The League tonight, Nick Kroll's character Ruxin showed us how to deal with a mouth-watering trade offer and an equally tempting night of intercourse. Well, he tries.