It's Either Bread and Circuses or Revolution

Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/10 04:39PM

The Way We Live Now: sucking up to the populace. But only out of necessity. We don't make it a habit to smile in the face of people without money unless they have something else we want. (Votes).

TV News and the Best of the Rest on the Web

Whitney Jefferson · 08/05/10 04:00PM

How Always Sunny incorporated Sweet D's pregnancy into season 6, Grover gets his own show, and an email exchange between Judd Apatow and his apparent "frenemy," what's next for Archer, and go vote in the battle of famous internet cats!

Basil Marceaux Gets the Auto-Tune Treatment

John Siegel · 08/05/10 03:36PM

These days, politicians have made it when people on the internet take their public words and arrange them into club-banging super jams. Here, the words of Tennessee gubernatorial hopeful Basil Marceaux (.com) are turned into beautiful music.

Famous Gay Couples We Want to See Tie The Knot

Brian Moylan · 08/05/10 03:34PM

A California judge ruled yesterday that preventing gays from getting married is unconstitutional. But nothing in Cali matters until a celebrity does it! Here are the brides-and-brides and grooms-and-grooms we'd like to see exercising their new right to wed.

Your Thursday Night Lineup

Matt Cherette · 08/05/10 03:30PM

TONIGHT: Big Brother 12 is all new—and live!—as the fourth houseguest of the season is evicted. Also, new episodes of SYTYCD, Jersey Shore and Futurama, the season finale of Bethenny Getting Married?, a Shark Week special, and more!

Grandma Literally Gets Run Over By a Reindeer

Matt Cherette · 08/05/10 02:38PM

You're all familiar with the song, "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer," right? Well, life has decided to imitate art: watch as this poor Finnish woman falls victim to a randy Rudolph (or Connor, of Vixen, or whomever).

No One Wants to Pay Tom Cruise to Be In Movies Anymore

Richard Lawson · 08/05/10 02:38PM

According to Vulture, the fading-to-a-near-invisible-point onetime box office draw will be paid SAG minimum wages to act in Mission Impossible 4: The Fourth Time Around It's Probably Pretty Possible. That's basically the death of clout right there.