The Way We Live Now: shedding—shedding jobs, like a thick fur coat sloughing off in the summer's heat. You don't want our economy to sweat, do you? Not to worry: a little perspective will turn that frown upside down!

Jesse Wasserman was arrested early Thursday morning after allegedly robbing three people in Central Park using a fake gun. Wasserman, it turns out, is a former prep school kid from tony New Rochelle. It's a suburban horror story!

Need a break from keeping up with the tragicomedy that is Lindsay Lohan's life? Well, take the survey below and email the last question to surveys@gawker.com and you could win $150 in Fandango Bucks that you can use to see the summer blockbuster of your choice. [Rules]

Awesome Dad Snoop appeared on The View today, and was hit with a barrage of questions by the resident crazies. Aside from some familial advice, we find out that he'd like to take over for Oprah. Yes, yes, please yes.

What's Joe Biden doing right now? He and Jill Biden are taking in some sun at Cryder Beach in Southampton, according to a tipster who generously sent along a few photos of the shirtless Vice President under a beach umbrella.

Monster making! Russian warming! Frog mountains! Bat extinction! Multiple sclerosis! Hurricane season! Quantum entanglement! Pet meds! And Polish geologists! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch your science—while screwing in a light bulb, all alone!

The gay conservative group GOProud — whose platform is essentially "cut taxes, while being gay" — is hosting a party called "Homocon 2010" with Ann Coulter, "The Right Wing Judy Garland." Fun! But isn't Ann Coulter mean to gay people?

A French tourist slipped off the edge of the Grand Canyon while taking pictures and fell 75 feet. But he survived! Now he has a great story to tell, and "Falling Into the Grand Canyon" has a Yelp review. [AP]

Keyboard Cat, Spaghetti Cat, Ceiling Cat, Roomba Cat... there are tons of kitties that have risen to fame through the magic of the internet. But who reigns supreme? Urlesque put the best viral felines into brackets to battle it out.

Financial reporter Charlie Gasparino broke some news, and to celebrate, Fox Business aired a segment entitled "Charlie Breaks and Brags," in which the scrappy blowhard reveals his source: an intern, whose name he wrote on a post-it note.

The relationships, both romantic and social, of the subjects on Jersey Shore, the most important sociological experiment of our time, are very volatile. Sometimes they are soothed with the balm of alcohol. Sometimes it makes them explode. Sometimes both!

Its been 10 years since Jackass premiered and the formula has remained unchanged: semi-refined slapstick. Not much differs in the first trailer for the third installment of the series, but that doesn't mean the result is any less hilarious.

If you cringe at one thing today, let it be this freshman orientation video from UGA. Forcing their students to sing this awful song is one thing, but butchering Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA"? Some crimes are unforgivable.

The Pentagon is super mad about Wikileaks leaking 70,000 classified Afghanistan war documents. So mad that they have made the ridiculous demand that Wikileaks "return" the data. A massive organization willfully misunderstanding how the Internet works? Sounds familiar!

Here is amiable CBS Early Show host Harry Smith absolutely cutting the you-know-what out of his finger, with a vegetable slicer, on live TV this morning. You know he wanted to say "Fuck!" so bad.

Shots fired! Apparently, Bob Barker said some nasty things about current The Price Is Right host Drew Carey. And you know who was really bothered by this? Wendy Williams.

Well, that happened. Bravo unrolled its fifth entry in their wildly successful reality franchise and it was, well, something of a death knell, methinks. For the series, for DC, for women in general. It was just plumb awful, wasn't it?

In your contentious Friday media column: freelancers say BlackBook's not paying them, a family sues Metro for misleading photo usage, WaPoCo makes money (no thanks to the newspaper), and a bidder for Newsweek says he was ignored.

[Queen Latifah and presumed girlfriend Jeanette Jenkins on a yacht in France, where they've been hanging out with newlyweds Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. Maybe they'll take our advice and wed in California when they get back? Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

Kabbalah leader Philip Berg had a birthday party in Tel Aviv, and someone put video of it on YouTube. Watch "the Rav" and his followers get jiggy to a Madonna song about blowjobs and other Kabbalah-approved tunes.