Saturn will join Pontiac and Oldsmobile in GM's junk yard.

Well look at this! We were totally right — it happens sometimes — and conservatives are firing up their attacks on Kevin Jennings, the nation's gay "safe school czar." And they're using terms like "statutory rape." How timely!

Perhaps we were too hasty in calling "American Police Force" a militia. Now it appears to be just a big fucking scam against a poor little town.

Ken Lewis was once a whiz banker who helped build Bank of America into a titan. Then he organized that Merrill Lynch deal, things went south and now he's resigning. But his woes continue.

Actor Dennis Hopper, 73, was taken to a Manhattan hospital this afternoon while wearing an oxygen mask. His publicist blames a stomach bug, which must be pretty serious: he's won't be making Crash-promoting media appearances this week. [Post-Intelligencer]

Choire Sicha and Jeff Smith saw very different sweater scenes; Perez Hilton questioned someone's Twitter ethics; and Larry David did a shameless imitation of Larry David. The Twitterati were obsessed with cold-weather clothes and diseases.

[A fire truck in Kuala Lumpur rushes to action following an earthquake there today. Image via Getty]

• The week in reviews: The Times's temp critic Pete Wells hands out a single star to the Standard Grill (and some controversy follows); NY's Adam Platt has mixed things to say about "pre-recession throwback" SHO Shaun Hergatt; Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton takes a knife to the new Aureole; and TONY's Jay Cheshes bestows four out of five stars on Ryan Skeen and Allen & Delancey.
• The Jane is striking back at its very angry (very noise-averse) neighbors. [P6]
• Coming in 2010 (maybe): Chumley's, the Village landmark that closed a couple of years ago, is hoping to make a return. And Todd English is looking to open a hotel restaurant named Oliver Todd on Great Jones Street. [Eater, GS]
• How did Danny Meyer come up with Shake Shack? Allow him to explain. [BT]
• Wine prices are at all-time lows, in case you haven't heard. [Reuters]
• How are some chain restaurants luring in customers during these tough economic times? By offering up discounts on drinks, naturally. [WSJ]
• Did you know Sunday is International Pickle Day? Now you do! [Decider, BB]

We took flak earlier this month for saying Oracle appeared to be, yet again, making wild advertising claims without any evidence. The business software company was just fined over those claims, since —go figure — it had no evidence.

Tonight at midnight, same-sex couples in Nevada will be able to register as domestic partners. How are Vegas gays commemorating the event? By squabbling over whether or not to have a big gay wedding. Please, it's not gay enough!

Donald Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet since the news broke last week that he accidentally rented the mansion he owns in Bedford to Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy. (Sometimes bad press is just bad press, even for a craven attention addict like Donald Trump.) But America's biggest loudmouth is now speaking up about what went down and he's doing pretty much what you'd expect him to do in a case like this: He's trying to make it seem like it was all for the best.

Just what is Politico getting at with this 2,300 word piece on the incredibly close relationship between John Edwards and aide Andrew Young? Hmm? With all this talk of Young's "intensely emotional" "passion" for the dirtbag former candidate?

Combine two dashes of the Huffington Post's culty, medicine-fearing "Living" section and one dash of Fox News' craziest host, and you've got Love in the Time of Swine Flu. Not even Dr. Dean Ornish could stop these paranoid fellow-travelers.

Showtime has released the season premieres of Dexter and Californication to the public on the web. So we have embedded the full episodes below, to enjoy at your leisure while you lean back on our plush Gawker VIP virtual upholstery.

Goody, Kiehl's has put up one of those "Make Your Own" cartoon websites, which is always a bad idea, PR-wise. Weird that this was the default text though, right? [via Adfreak]

If Roman Polanski wins his petition for house arrest he'll probably end up here at "Milky Way," the chalet he owns outside Gstaad. At least it's got a view. [Images via Getty]

[To keep from getting orange smears on her white dress, Britney Spears snacks on a Michael Jackson CD at Target yesterday. Image via X17]

How did pictures of scantily clad, apparently underaged girls end up used without permission in an ad campaign on Facebook? Blame affiliate advertising, and the limits of the social network's ad screening.

The Way We Live Now: Anesthetizing ourselves with cute trends. Mancession? Let's talk about it! Recession sex? A trend for the ages! Cooking school food from scratch? It must have some significance! Just don't mention our hopeless, soul-sucking economic demise.

So far the public outrage hasn't been nearly as intense as Janet Jackson's Nipplegate, but once the thought of a naked ladyflower on prime time television settles in, the reaction will be huge. Next up, FCC fines.