Despite the scenery, we assure you that Rubicon takes place in 2010. Yellow Pages! Land-line phones! Newspapers! In this clip, Roger Robinson summarizes "the narrative" of the series to James Badge Dale in a soliloquy on patterns, data, and hubris.

North Korea was recently discovered to have both a whore-obsessed Twitter account and a Facebook page soliciting hot man on man communal love. Or maybe not: The regime says its sexy profiles are, uh, tricks of the capitalist running dogs.

Adolescence is never easy and when you have a shitty mother like Betty Draper, it's even worse. Don is also trying to bring his new firm into adulthood, but not without growing pains. It's tough for those Mad Men kids.

[On the set of One Day, a crew member applies fake blood to Anne Hathaway for a scene in which her character gets hit by a truck. Image via INF.]

A Los Angeles County jail is pioneering a gigantic cannon that shoots invisible lasers that produce a "deep burning sensation" in humans. Here's a disturbing video of prison officials shooting each other with it and giggling with horrified glee.

Stepping away from the game following yesterday's horrendous loss, Lou Piniella will forever be remembered for his great managing, playing career, and epic tirades. Here's a montage of Sweet Lou losing his lid—literally.

Paul F. Tompkins interrupts a Ted Leo & The Pharmacists' meeting and persuades the band to put on a musical. John Hodgeman and Julie Klausner also star in this video which might be a jab at Green Day's Broadway show.

The Los Angeles public school system, the second-largest in the country, is set to unveil its new Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, a K-12 "Taj Mahal" school that cost $578 million, the most expensive in US history. Too much?

16-year-old Kirstin Rausch had friends over later than she was supposed to. So as a punishment, her father took out an ad for 30 hours of free babysitting, complete with a picture of her face, in the local newspaper.

Chatroulette, the addictive instant video chat site, has disappeared. Instead of teenage genitalia, its homepage has a message: "The experiment #1 is over now. Thanks for participating." Experiment?

Just as America's fragile economy was beginning to show signs of revival, investor confidence is flagging once again. This could mean what we all feared: a minor reduction in Wall Street employment.

Friday's Soup featured some friends to help aid in the destruction of last week's happenings in pop culture. The Office's Oscar Nunez and Childrens Hospital's Rob Corddry make fun of Tila Tequila's Juggalo mishap, Justin Beiber, and Dina Lohan.

Temporarily liberated Illinois ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared at Chicago's Comic Con this weekend, ostensibly to play with Batmobiles, but mostly to refill his legal coffers. He was charging $50 per autograph and $80 per photo. Wouldn't you pay that much?

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College is a special time in a teenager's life when he can leave mom and dad behind in order to smoke lots of weed in peace. But according to fake trendspotters, parents these days just can't let go! It's bananas.

This week, our "Meet a Gawker.TV Intern" series focuses on Chris Dignes, another one of our fantastic team of summer interns.

Rest easy, nation. Though same-sex couples were recently allowed to compete in the Today Show's popular Modern Wedding contest, none of them advanced to the final four. Phew. Now we don't have to have that awkward conversation with our kids.

Meet Danny and Annie, two Brooklynites married for 27 years and in love the entire time. Here's the story of their relationship, from first date to death, captured in a poignant animation by StoryCorps.

Poor, family-hating Jennifer Aniston stunk up the box office this weekend, while a bunch of grumpy old MEN once again grabbed the top spot. Vampires took a stake in the heart, hilariously, and piranhas raged.

Dr. Tyrone Hayes is a biologist at UC Berkeley and a longtime critic of atrazine, an herbicide produced by the chemical company Syngenta. He took the bold step of sending lots of taunting, rap-quoting emails to the company. Scandal ensued.