Barack Obama has been having a hard time selling his health care reform, especially now that public option's looking more endangered. What's a besieged President to do? Turn to Rodale and their cabal of politically-friendly titles!

Choire Sicha's keyboard fell apart; the Huffington Post cold nuked a post and and Courtney Reimer's censor redacted his own copy. The Twitterati picked up the pieces today.

Poor, sad sack Glenn Beck has even more woes than just unwarranted, and ill-advised, threats on his life. Eleven more companies have decided to pull their ads from his Fox News program. Who are they?

What's worse than making a 9/11-themed ad? Making a 9/11-themed video!

Welcome to the weekly web party that's as frivolous, sweet and pointless as a watermelon carpaccio. And also as tasty…yet tasteless too! Why not pull up a chair and imbibe?

There's nothing Hollywood likes more than a new toy; Smell-O-Vision, the casting couch, Pauly Shore. In their day they've all been played with to death by the dream factory. And now, they've got hands on another treat — Digital 3D.

The New York Times wants everyone to know they pitch a spectacular tent. Or their headlines do, as this double entendre about a Chicago architecture project attests. Maybe the Grey Lady is a tranny! [NY Times]

[To draw attention to climate change, the World Wildlife Federation had Brazillian artist Nele Azevedo set up 1000 ice sculptures on the steps of the Berlin Concert Hall. Image via Getty]

• Today it's the New York Times' turn to preview what's on tap this fall. [NYT]
• It's been a rough few months for restaurant owners on account of the recession, although a fair number are figuring out how to make it work. [NYT]
• The sour economy hasn't put a damper on Richard Caring's plans. The Brit restaurateur and owner of Soho House is spending $7 million to revamp the former Cafe Pierre and turn it into NYC outpost of Le Caprice. Meanwhile, Tony May is gearing up for the opening of his big new Italian restaurant, SD26, which may be "one of the more theatrical debuts of the fall." [NYT, NYT]
• What should you make of the new crop of resto-clubs, like Hotel Griffou, The Gates, and LevantEast? Not much, reports Time Out's Jay Cheshes. [TONY]
• The 10 "big deal" restaurants to keep an eye on this season. [Eater]
• The new Oceana finally has its liquor license. So it's now celebrating. [Zagat]
• Su Casa, a bar/lounge/speakeasy in the Village, opens this weekend. [GS]

Today we innocently repeated a Page Six blind item about a married former newspaperman carrying on an affair with a single reporter. We don't have names. But we do have some of the newspaperman's text messages to his ladyfriend!

Courtney Love and Dave Grohl love money more than their dead husband and bandmate, so Love let Activision include his image and Grohl let them use his music in Guitar Hero, where people make him sing Bon Jovi songs.

New court papers have Wolfgang Puck's wife dissing everyone from Anna Wintour to Shaquille O'Neal and proclaiming herself "the new Bill Gates." It's the inevitable trainwreck ending to a food huckster's partnership with a group of internet speculators.

Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show.

George Allen was a Virginia Governor and Senator who was supposed to be a presidential contender until he called a dark-skinned young man an obscure racial slur that he learned from his mother. He is a real piece of work.

Noooooooo: Last week we heard the heartwarming story of how old school rapper Roxanne Shante got her evil record company to pay more than $200K for her to get a Ph.D. Now Slate says the whole story's a fake.

On MSNBC today, Mediaite's Glynnis MacNicol and Contessa Brewer speculated that none other than this humble site is responsible for the State Department's investigation into contractor misbehavior in Kabul, Afghanistan. Oh, you crazy kids.

Bravo announced today that their high end real estate agent show Million Dollar Listing returns October. This is genius! While we hated watching these fools make bank for doing nothing, we are going to love watching them squirm for pennies.

Millionairess Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby and her husband, Businessweek media columnist Jon Fine, are taking months-long sabbaticals to "do some ambitious traveling." We'd do the exact same thing if we had that money. Jerks. [The Wrap. Pic: MB]

The Way We Live Now: Just trying to do what seemed right at the time, Your Honor. We had to rob that bank, to supplement our police salary. We had to skip jury duty. It's expensive. Crime is money!

This just in: Wall Street CEOs make a lot more than average Americans! "The top five executives at each of the 20 banks that accepted the most federal bailout dollars averaged $32 million a piece in personal compensation from 2006 through 2008, according to the findings of the 16th annual Institute for Policy Studies' 'Executive Excess' report. The institute calculated that 100 average U.S. workers would have to labor over 1,000 years to make as much as these 100 executives." [Daily Finance]