Because earning $223,500 per year as the GOP's designated loudmouth is not enough, Steele also dabbles in the private loudmouth sector, drawing up to $20,000 for speeches where he does stuff like praise ACORN. We found a video!

Adam Lambert just wrapped up an appearance on The Jay Leno Show. In the best bits, Lambert talks about dropping out of college, not being "plucked" for Idol, the AMAs controversy and Bill O'Reilly's rumor about him. Also: Lambert's performance.

If only it were as simple to count everyone in America as "One, two... three hundred million." Nope. It's still about four months away, but the 2010 Census is already under attack by people wracked with existential angst.

So tonight Larry King was just like, "Screw it. We're never going to get Tiger Woods now, so let's just show an interview from 1998." There were some funny parts where it sounded like Tiger was talking about sex!

Woman Calls Cops Over Kid's Video Game-Playing. Cops Respond: "Chill Out"

The folks at Access Hollywood spent the majority of tonight's episode covering the tragic, untimely death of actress Brittany Murphy. How did they deal with it? By airing segments so ridiculous, they're tragic on their own. Lights! Camera! Shameless!

In this clip Lewis Black tears apart Christmas as a devote Jew and a concerned citizen. While he is on the topic, he also lays into other ridiculous holidays such as: Valentines day, Thanksgiving (Christmas Halftime), and St. Patrick's day.

Feds are limiting the amount of time airlines can imprison their passengers on a runway in a tiny aluminum tube to three hours. Seems reasonable, considering people actually paid to sit through "Titanic."

• Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8 closed a couple of months ago, but now she says "the grand reopening of the new Bungalow 8" is planned for February. [NYM]
• More on the rumored return of Beatrice Inn, if you're interested. [Gawker]
• Le Pain Quotidien is expanding to Rockefeller Center and Central Park. [NYO]
• Govind Armstrong has left Table 8, but the eatery is still open, FYI. [NYT]
• Andre Balazs's Boom Boom Room will host a very special affair on New Year's Eve. For $250-750, guests will get to watch Courtney Love "perform." [Eater]
• A Hamptons real estate broker has filed a lawsuit against Bobby Flay. [N'day]
• If the 2007 Times article about what restaurateur Drew Nieporent does in his spare time at his New Jersey home didn't satisfy your obsession for all things Nieporent, here's pretty much the same info from yesterday's Times. [NYT]

[When you're trudging through slushy intersections on the way home tonight, just remember how beautiful the fresh snowfall was on Sunday morning, captured here in the East Village. Image via Getty]

Here is another Google Wave video by Joe Sabia. He previously introduced the world to Google Wave by doing a Pulp Fiction re-enactment. This one is more comprehensive, and still answers zero questions on exactly how to use it.

We already told you there's nothing gay about the new Sherlock Holmes movie, but Robert Downey Jr. keeps trying to sell it as a (shudder) "bromance" to the studio's chagrin. They shouldn't fret, because these pairs are even more flaming!

the former editor of Cosmo, Glamour and Us Weekly and now HollywoodLife.com, explaining how stories like "Katharine McPhee, Are You A Serial Flasher?" empower women, to the Globe & Mail via Jezebel.

Tonight we'll be watching The Sing-Off, Find My Family, and Hoarders. What are you watching tonight? Let us know in the comments.

Photo: Flickr/mitchparadise

Today Tyra was all about periods. She forced her audience to wear red shirts and covered everything from the color of period blood to how to bone on a girl's period. Suffice it to say—it was totally gross.

If your definition of cute includes Barack Obama and small children, go read Margaret Talev's report of Obama's visit with DC kids: "he asked a kid who wants a cell phone, 'Who you gonna call?' Kid: 'Everyone.' POTUS: 'Like who?'"

According to Pew, 50% of Americans polled have a generally negative view of the decade that is currently limping to its miserable end. Dick Cheney left office with only 44% of people viewing him "unfavorably."

• Diane Sawyer made her debut this evening as anchor of ABC's World News; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the night's big attraction. [AP]
• Avatar pulled in $73 million at the domestic box office (and $232 million worldwide), although it would have made more if it hadn't snowed. [LAT, NYT]
• Yelp walked away from a deal to be bought by Google over the weekend. [TC]
• Radio giant Citadel Broadcasting Corporation has filed Chapter 11. [NYT]
• Jay Leno's already bad situation appears to be getting worse. [B&C, NYP]
• Howard Stern is in the middle of tense contract talks with Sirius XM right now, which is why he's threatening to leave the satellite radio company. [AP]
• Twitter will turn a profit in '09, although it still isn't worth $1 billion. [BN]
• Kim Kardashian plug products on Twitter for $10K/tweet. No joke. [AdAge]
• Useless year-end awards: Taylor Swift was named the AP's "entertainer of the year"; Madonna was deemed the "most famous celebrity of the decade."

You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen... but did you know that they are crazy high? In Scandinavian Lappland, Sami herders have shared psychotropic mushrooms with their animals for centuries; a possible explanation for Santa's flying reindeer.