Tao Lin's Guardian book review. Related: Going to hospital, back at 3. Brain: exploded.

Where, exactly, are you supposed to start when the New York Times runs a Page One media piece on the word "douche"?

If ever a show needed to be put in its place, it's the primate-scribed Entourage. Lucky for us, College Humor rounded up a bunch of UCB talent and successfully parodied it until it's glitzy, stupidly unbelievable nuts fell off.

Lindsay Lohan is cracked out and running out of places! Or something. We're not sure what Harry Potter is smoking but it's awesome. Carrie Prejean has more sex on camera. Jon Gosselin, Exortionists: Dicknoses. Presenting your Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup:

Back in 2001 Cartoon Network ran this updated version of Scooby Doo with comedian David Cross, TV's Gary Coleman, and now-outdated swing band, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It's the Scooby Doo that should have been.

Mark Pincus recently cut off the scamsters who supply his company with revenue. But before he bowed to controversy, the Facebook games merchant was more cavalier about corporate morality, even griping about his "bullshit" Harvard ethics class and idiot classmates.

When show business spots a corner of public consciousness not colonized by product placement and paid endorsements, its experts spring to work to take care of that.

A Bush-Cheney operative let loose a zinger about orgies and abortion; Kurt Andersen finally watched The Wire; and Neel Shah was discovered something unusual in Oprah's hold music. The Twitterati found some low-hanging fruit.

Levi Johnston, Carrie Prejean, Sarah Palin, and the Hipster Grifter: it was a cavalcade of terrible stars, this week!

Buyer beware this weekend at the box office. There's a little something targeted for everybody out there, but every film comes with some major red flags.

The Week that Joe Scarborough Became Our Biggest Fan

the former G.E. chief executive expressing relief that he and his wife Suzy will, like Maria Bartiromo, no longer write a column for BusinessWeek now that it's owned by Bloomberg, to the New York Post.

[A wax statue of Paris Hilton is one of the attractions at the newly-opened Louis Toussaud's Waxworks in Thailand, the fifth international branch of the company (not to be confused with the more popular Madame Tussaud's). Image via Getty]

Breaking Horace Mann news: "Former Student Body Presidents' performances in last Tuesday's assembly caused heated discussions regarding sexism, men's bigotry, and the boundaries of comedic relief among students and faculty in classrooms, advisories, and club meetings this past week."

This week, Jim Behrle's Kartoon Kats solve Afghanistan and NBC. Also: blue alien bazongas in 3D!

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