If Goldilocks were shopping for a TV today, odds are she'd walk away disappointed and empty-handed. We looked at three major TV manufacturers' latest offerings and couldn't help but wonder — whatever happened to the medium TV?

Author and intellectual Tony Judt died yesterday in New York at 62, after a battle with ALS. His best known book, "Postwar," about Europe after WW2 was called "remarkable" by The New Yorker. Read his final essays, starting here.

Hello, My name is Dumbass McGee. I was reading the Huffington's Post today and was completely surprised by this article which said Vitaminwater is not healthy, even though the name of the product has "Vitamin" in it! Help?

The Valley Meat Company in Modesto, California has recalled one million pounds of frozen beef products after six people were found to be sick from E. coli. The beef was supplied primarily to stores on the west coast. [FPJ]

Three years ago the National Archives took control of the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, and an extensive new Watergate exhibit was due to open on July 1st. But history revisionists from the Nixon Foundation are trying to whitewash it.

Adnan Shukrijumah spent 15 formative years in Brooklyn. Then he joined Al Qaeda as a dishwasher in an Afghanistan camp. Now he's al Qaeda's "chief of worldwide operations." Those Brooklyn boys! They just pick up and forget what made 'em.

23-year-old Ashley Kirilow allegedly faked having cancer to raise $20,000 for her fraud charity. She turned herself in yesterday and has been charged with three counts of fraud, for which she faces up to two years in prison.

Two days ago, an "ice island" four times larger than Manhattan broke away from a Greenland glacier and is heading for the Nares Strait, and could reach the Atlantic Ocean within two years.

You can't trust reporters. Not with the facts, not with the news, not with the politics. Well BREAKING NEWS guys, THIS JUST IN: Apparently you can't trust them with your valuables either.

Snooki's about to get a lot more boring. Spencer Pratt spent seven grand on strippers. Lady Gaga wears another outrageous outfit! Joe Biden meets a guy in an Obama mask. Saturday's Gossip Roundup is undiscovered country. Let's explore.

Fantastic Max was one weird kid. First of all, he had the haircut of a gutterpunk, second of all he fought crime without even underpants on. This kid was battling space-evil by embracing an alternative lifestyle during his terrible-twos, WTF?!

Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for killing 10 medical aid workers, six of them Americans, in northern Afghanistan.

Marek Rosin is the latest victim of what Montana authorities believe is a lone black bear that breaks into homes and raids freezers looking for food. Rosin found the bear in his kitchen eating a frozen pizza at 1:30 am.

Community star Donald Glover talks about getting bad advice on his stand-up. Lets just say Glover is the ego, Chris Rock is the superego and Tracy Morgan is the id.

[Sasha Obama hams it up in the ocean while on vacation with her mother in Marbella, Spain. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Mean Oregon health officials shut down 7-year-old Julie Murphy's lemonade stand because it wasn't up to code. But now the county's top official has apologized: ''A lemonade stand is a classic, iconic American kid thing to do," he said. [AP]

Let's take a look back at the week that was, a hot week full of hot topics.

Today we looked at how airports are gonna get a whole lot drunker. We used a particularly evocative picture to illustrate the post, causing one commenter to wax poetic, a melancholy, drunken elegy.

Your daily look into the twitterific lives of our favorite celebs.

A sculpture of a beaver with a giant vagina has has torn the sleepy town of Bemidji, Minnesota asunder, awakening ardent debate about the right to bear labia—and inspiring mischievous, sticky-goo-squirting vandals.