Today we looked at the rekindled Flight 93 memorial Muslim controversy and sighed and shook our heads and threw up our hands. Well, most of us. One commenter was proactive and hatched an idea for a true, beautiful memorial.

Watch the gentle mother of Teen Mom's Catelynn help her daughter pick out a prom dress at Deb. It's mother-daughter bonding that will warm your heart—or not.

To prove something that you already know, two sociologists wrote a paper called "Demythologizing Consumption Practices: How Consumers Protect Their Field-Dependent Identity Investments from Devaluing Marketplace Myths." Conclusion: everyone hates "hipsters" even though they shop at Urban Outfitters, too.

Last night's Trivia Night at Destination Bar was another smashing success. Everyone wore their thinking caps and their matching drinking shoes to the bar ready for a street fight. Check out the fun that ensued.

[Chris Brown roughhouses in Miami Beach with bikini-clad friends. Looks like fun! Image via Pacific Coast News.]

The government recently enlisted aged actor Andy Griffith for a commercial showcasing Medicare benefits available through health care reform. North's Carolina's old people, at least, didn't appreciate these lies, and Griffith's favorability rating has dropped 25 percentage points there.

Last night on Minute to Win It Minnesota Vikings WR Bernard Berrian and San Francisco 49ers Cheerleader Amber Wright stepped to the stage with a chance to win $125k for their charities. Could they do it?

The new Google Instant guesses what you're searching for while you're typing, and retrieves results before you finish. It's the T-9 of search engines. And it means buying an "erector set" will make everyone think you have "erectile dysfunction."

Today Shep talked with Drew Ellis about the footage she and her husband captured while on their honeymoon in Vegas. Shep's quip regarding the lion attack at the conclusion of the segment seamlessly leads into news on floods in Texas.

An adviser to California Sen. Barbara Boxer has resigned after he was caught bringing "a green, leafy substance which tested positive for marijuana" to his office yesterday, according to Capitol police. Apparently "fun" is banned on the Hill these days.

Guy Ritchie is okay when it comes to fast-paced gangster movies; but his new genre of "five-minute-long perfume commercials in which (SPOILER) Jude Law and the model lady just wanna stand almost-nekkid by the Eiffel Tower" leaves us strangely unaroused.

MTV will venture into live daytime programming once again, the first batch of Glee songs, Kendra Wilkinson has a workout DVD, Piers Morgan will have his talk show on CNN, Deadliest Catch lives on, So You Think You Can Dance's tWitch on Bones, Jon Glaser's puppy suit, Joel McHale and Jessica Alba will star in a Spy Kids reboot, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, and Betty White as a comic book heroine? Why the hell not.

After a year-long study of male sexual performance, researchers have found that men with higher body mass indices last seven minutes longer than their slender counterparts. The decidedly unsexy reason: Fat men have more female hormones.

TONIGHT: Lots of variety! We've got new episodes of Big Brother 12, The Real World, MasterChef, Minute to Win It, America's Got Talent, Top Chef, Man vs. Wild, Psych, and more, plus Joe Biden on The Daily Show.

Today Old Spice released a commercial starring the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis. Perhaps Isaiah Mustafa was busy plotting how to use his new-found fame to land women? Watch Lewis attempt to fill the shoes of the "Old Spice Guy" inside.

Barack Obama gave a solid speech in Ohio today, attacking Republican policies and obstructionism, and outlining several new economic initiatives. Reporters are giddy over his new tone of "populism," which is... what, exactly?

Google sure knows how to push Steve Jobs' buttons. This advertisement for Google's new instant search system is bound to get under the Apple CEO's skin — and intensify one of the most heated rivalries in tech.

New York Times Co. stock surged today on Carlos Slim takeover rumors. (Again.) UPDATE: Denied.

Happy first day of school! What do we have to complain about? All types of things! The schedule is stupid. The prices of school supplies are out of control. The bus is late. And hey, stop shooting us!

Me Pearl offers suggests several tactics for diagnosing and treating your opossum's depression. Her tips include bright colors, fung shui, and not pretending that they are not fat, because they know they are fat.