There goes Rush Limbaugh's theory that environmentalist terrorists blew up the Deepwater Horizon oil rig — a team investigating the explosion suspect a bubble of deep sea methane gas, which ignited at the surface, was to blame. [AP]

A second man, a former male prostitute, came forward earlier today with details of his sexual encounter with rent-boy hiring Christian anti-gay leader George Rekers. We gave him a call to get his full story.

The pessimistic Dylan Moran takes on women in this little rant. I'm guessing he's been rejected a few times before this clip.

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[Just an hour after a bomb scare, Times Square returned to tourists and T-shirts like normal. Image via AP]

Helicopter video-leakers Wikileaks just asked for a "list of as many .mil email addresses as possible" via Twitter. That is weird. What are they up to?

In a special edition of #stalker, Michael "Kramer" Richards was spotted this evening in the Union Square subway station. What he was doing there is a mystery, though:

NBC hasn't decided which four new shows it'll pick up for the fall season. But the network has chosen its six favorites, and registered the shows' Twitter handles. Obviously, someone on the internet noticed.

You can still put on some Barry White, lower the lights and make love to your favorite goat in Florida — their bickering legislature has failed to pass a measure outlawing bestiality.

Scientists did a study, and they found a surprising fact: If you are in a "friends-with-benefits" situation rather than a serious relationship, you are more likely to have sex with multiple people! Sometimes we have to wonder why scientists exist.

Facebook is getting lots of heat about privacy lately. But a company exec told Computerworld that any complaining you're hearing is not from real users.

Prostitutes are the new carnies. South African authorities estimate 40,000 sex workers from the Congo, Russia, and beyond will make pilgrimages to their nation to get rich servicing soccer fans. Sex tourism: Now, the hookers come to you. [GlobalPost]

Drinkers are apparently weary of all the fancy-pants cocktails filled with tinctures and obscure violet-based liquors. The kids these days are, apparently, enjoying a shot of whisky followed by a shot of pickle brine.

Today we looked at Sarah Palin's gibbledy-gobbledy word stew about the mainstream media and scratched our heads. Luckily one commenter had their Palin Translate-O-Matic machine handy, and told us what she really meant.

For whatever reason, Lloyd Blankfein is getting to keep his job as Goldman Sachs' chairman.

Sometimes, being in Scientology leader David Miscavige's inner circle sounds kind of fun. High-level church defector Mark Rathbun says he personally recorded Tom Cruise's confessionals—and that Miscavige read the transcripts out loud, "joking and laughing" at parties.

The Limelight Marketplace opened in Chelsea today. It's haunted by ghosts of K holes past.

Very likely not! But President Obama won't rule out sabotage as the cause of yesterday's stock market plunge. Please let it be bored Chinese high school hackers and not systemic instability produced by out-of-control computer trading! [The Hill, photo via]

Wouldn't it be great if Oprah didn't run the world, and other media personalities could get some jobs for once? For instance, the narration of "Life" would've benefited greatly from a few bleeped f-bombs.

In March the Village Voice's Foster Kamer made a penis joke about Jim Dolan, the evil billionaire who controls Cablevision, Madison Square Garden, and Rainbow Media. Dolan was not amused. Now he's retaliated by getting $1 million of advertising pulled.