We've all been in this situation: a group dinner and there's confusion over the bill. Splitting the bill is a powderkeg capable of tearing apart a group. Delve into the potentially awkward side of group dynamics in this educational video.

You've heard about the proposed "botax," haven't you, the tax some members of Congress would like to impose on cosmetic surgical procedures to pay for a health care bill? Plastic surgeons aren't too happy about it, and one even took to the streets yesterday to make his voice heard.

[Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi carries a monogrammed purse (that doesn't match her outfit) emblazoned with the mysterious letter J while walking the Los Angeles streets with DJ Paulie Directions on Saturday night. Image via X17]

This morning, an elaborate hoax briefly convinced the world that Canada was going to take the lead on carbon emissions reductions and financial aid to Africa. But... why?

This morning, Bravo's Andy Cohen was bored to tears by a long-winded discussion about golf by Kathie Lee. She noticed and immediately called him out. We're just surprised this doesn't happen more often on the 4th hour of Today.

Science: Private school makes you blind.

The band that put the "boom boom" into our hearts also brought us this holiday classic. George Michael wrote this song in 1984 and released it alongside the lesser-known half the duo, Wham!

the former President describing his reaction to seeing Rep. Joe Wilson scream out "You Lie!" during Barack Obama's health care speech in September, to Parade magazine via Politico.

Yet another reason to regret that college education: While unemployment nationwide began going down last month, guess which way unemployment among recent college grads moved? That's right: Up! Is there a "grim case study" to illustrate this problem, we wonder?

In the never-ending fight for the most tasteless, useless infomercial product in the world, The Necky beats out the Poo-Trap and the Potty Putter—barely.

Farmers attached lights to their sheep and had their sheepdogs herd them into different shapes with amazing results.

Something's gone terribly wrong at Fox News—they keep responding to criticism as if it's valid! Someone at the network sent a letter to Glenn Beck wondering why he's always constantly shilling for gold.

If there's one thing racist lesbian sanctity-of-love defender Andrea Peyser can't stand, it's nubile young female teachers caressing each other's heavenly bodies in a forbidden dance of lust. (Smoke break, for Andrea). Andrea Peyser knows: You'll soon be killed.

Dance Dance Revolution is definitely harder than Guitar Hero, and this little guy does amazingly, overalls and all.

This guy uses his celeb girlfriend as a pimp. She brings home tricks for ménages à trois, and he dates them. He looks even more the cad next to a generous actress and comedian. There's still good in the world.

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt hailing a cab around in Chelsea ... Cynthia Nixon running a few errands over the weekend ... Kate Hudson leaving her townhouse with her son Ryder and later walking with a cup of coffee in hand ... Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson leaving Bubby's on Hudson Street after brunch ... Chelsea Clinton leaving the Time Warner Center on Sunday afternoon ... Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell walking in Midtown ... Cate Blanchett hailing a cab with her two sons ... Ed Westwick shooting scenes for Gossip Girl on the Upper East Side and later going to lunch with Jessica Szohr ... Ben Roethlisberger getting into a car outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel ... and John Mayer leaving dinner at Nobu.

A drunken woman is determined to see her ex-boyfriend. She won't let something petty like being arrested for drunk driving AND a hit-and-run stop her. She'll just steal the ambulance and take it for a joy ride.

Thirty-three-year-old Solange Raulston, a.k.a. DJ Reverend Soul, was killed yesterday when she was sideswiped by a truck while she was riding her bike in Greenpoint, the New York Post reports. The decade's end has been tragic for North Brooklyn musicians.

A lot of people happily sat through Saturday Night Fever and in doing so made the following possible: The Bee Gees, medallions, afros on white men, and (most presently relevant) the movie Old Dogs. Thanks a lot movie crowds of the 1970s. Thanks for nothing. I'd continue bashing the disco movement if I didn't fear that some day my own child might loop me in with a group of people he's smarting off about for buying tickets to see the latest Transformers sequel. Thank God for the art of parody, I'm talking to you Ben Stiller.

• Judith Sheindlin, better known as "Judge Judy," has settled on new digs in Manhattan: She's paid $6.75 million for a two-bedroom co-op at the Sherry Netherland on Fifth Avenue. The no-nonsense ex-judge scored herself a discount, too. The 3,150-square-foot, 11th-floor apartment, which comes with a separate 150-square-foot maid's room on the building's sixth-floor, had been listed for $7.999 million. [Cityfile]
• It's been more than a year since Brooke Astor's Westchester estate, Holly Hill, first went on the market for $12.9 million. Now the price of property has been cut by more than $2 million. The 11,000-square-foot manse, which was recently emptied of Astor's furnishings to save on security and maintenance costs, is currently listed for $10.5 million. [NYDN, Sotheby's]
• Arlene Farkas, the ex-wife of real estate/retail heir Bruce Farkas, has slashed the price of her 14-room duplex at the River House. The five-bedroom, 5.5-bath apartment that Farkas first placed on the market for $15 million in 2008 is now listed for $11 million. [Cityfile, Stribling]
• Architect Frank Gehry's former duplex at 55 Crosby Street has hit the market. The four-bedroom pad is listed for $5.8 million. [Curbed, PDE]