The first investigation into the show is about taxes. How boring! New Jersey State Senator Joseph Vitale doesn't like the way the show depicts Italian-Americans and launched an investigation into the show's wages and hiring practices. Leave Jersey Shore alone!

Tonight we're tuning into Steven Seagal: Lawman and Bristol Bay Brawl. What are you watching tonight? Let us know in the comments.

• Golf Digest has decided to "suspend" Tiger Woods' monthly column. Will Condé Nast continue to pay him his $3 million-a-year salary? Unclear. [NYP]
• The Balloon Boy parents were sentenced to 90 days (him) and 20 days (her) today. For what it's worth, Richard Heene says he's "very, very sorry." [AP]
• Alexis Glick, one of Fox Business's first employees, resigned today. [LAT]
• Fox will go ahead with Idol with or without Simon Cowell. Obviously. [THR]
• Another humorless group is whining about MTV's Jersey Shore. [AP]
• The feud between Time Warner/Fox over cable fees is getting nasty. [DF]
• Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Mickey Rourke have signed on to present at next month's Golden Globes alongside host Ricky Gervais. [LAT]
• A look back at the wars Rupert Murdoch has waged over the years. [NYM]
• The trailer for Sex and the City 2 was released today. Yes, already. [EW]

They must be deeply, deeply ashamed of their split, since it happened this summer and they decided to announce it today, on the wasteland that is Christmas Eve Eve. Who is going to know now?

Winehouse went to a play for children in a crappy small English town. Though police haven't released details, it seems she (allegedly) started profanely heckling the performers and then assaulted a member of staff who tried to stop her.

If you're looking for very part-time work—and you hear snow is in the forecast—keep in mind the city will pay you $12 an hour to take a shovel in hand. Don't be surprised if you don't land the gig, though. With the economy in the shape it's in, the competition is fierce. [NYT]

Unlike the family-friendly Michael Keaton movie of the same name, this Jack Frost concerns a "mutant killer snowman" who terrorizes the folksy denizens of Snowmonton (get it?) for the holidays. Despite endless puns, its freakishness still bests Keaton's wintertime fluff.

Your Gawker editorial team has largely vamoosed (though there'll be some posting over the next two days) but that doesn't mean there's nothing going on here. We're creating the tagpage #crosstalk where you can spend the whole weekend chatting.

Happy holidays, we stumped everybody with today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Today at Gawker.TV, Whoopi Goldberg loves her weed, Kathy Griffin shows us her lady-parts, Harvey Levin's craptastic TMZ show, Teen Mom will scare your teenager out of ever having sex, and the most brutal figure skating falls we've seen.

A tipster in Texas flirted briefly with Scientology when college-age. Then, sensibly, she ran the hell away. Now people she's never met are sending her creepy hand-written notes trying to get her back into the cult.

As a kid, it was really fun to put salt on a slug (shut up, PETA) and watch it melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. Well putting salt on frog's legs yields much freakier, and sexier results.

Clever people have surveyed the nation and come up with a ranking of the most religious states in America. You will be incredibly unsurprised, and probably feel smug when you see it.

The good folks over at Pop Sugar have put together an enjoyable list of the top ten best moments on television in 2009. We actually agree with most of their choices— the order, however, not so much.

Now that we have safely arrived at our destinations the real fun begins. It's time to terrify with your tales of holidays gone horribly awry. The tree is up, let's set it on fire with a candle from the Menorah!

Dana Perino's 9 Favorite Things reminded me that my favorite thing about 2009 has been that we don't have to care about Dana Perino anymore. Or any other Bush people! Let us list 7 of them we do not miss.

[Society will come to an end now that Katy Perry and Russell Brand are starring in some Bizarro World version of a Norman Rockwell painting while sledding in London today. Image via Flynet]

We hope those last-minute shoppers don't come up short this Christmas, lest you want to incur an child's angry (and violent) wrath. Like this father did.

Book videos have become a standard way for publishing companies to promote authors books online. Here I take a crack at it with my own book, This Is Why You're Fat. Order today!

That's how John Runowicz, an administrator in the chemistry department got away with stealing money from the University for six years. He's now under arrest and probably needs a drink more than ever.