We've heard from multiple sources that the idea of going online-only is being seriously considered by the leadership of Entertainment Weekly. And it wouldn't be a bad idea.

Mark Penn should be shot from a cannon into the deepest part of the ocean. Instead he has a new Wall Street Journal column! Let's read it, and cry.

The star of the Times piece is Michael Buckley, a fast-talking and overbearingly gay celebrity commentator — think Ted Casablanca, if Ted Casablanca lived in Connecticut. Buckley says he makes $100,000 a year on YouTube ads. Google sells the ads and splits the revenue with Buckley, as it does with other video creators it has dubbed "partners."

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Paula Abdul's Tchochke-Pimping/Fan-Suicide Post Morteming World Tour landed in the Late Show hot seat last night, where Dave—a stalkee's rights activist if ever there was one—advocated on behalf of the Idol judge.

Click here for a larger pic. After the jump, the identities of these disturbingly thin social fixtures.

The Guardian examines the phenomenon of Schadenfoer, also known as hatred of the rich young Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer, he of the twee literary style and his seemingly charmed life.

Is teasing good for us? The New York Times thinks so. But does Tatum Bass? She just got kicked out of her fancy boarding school because the popular girls didn't like her prom planning.

Nature, nurture, or Leno? That was the question last night when Jay Leno hosted the newly out (and pissed at Proposition 8) Wanda Sykes.

This kid, David Karp, the Tumblr founder—he's now a confirmed (notional) multimillionaire! That means it's time for a field guide, in case you need to hit him up for money soon. Which you will.

It's only natural that the economic downturn makes us want to vent a bit. And naturally we need appropriate targets for our anger, like the CEOs of auto companies who fly to Washington on corporate jets to ask for taxpayer cash, or Wall Street executives who fire thousands and then still ask for eight-figure bonuses. Today you can direct your scorn in the direction of Suzanne Sirof, the wife of a prominent litigation attorney in LA who says she fired her impoverished El Salvadoran nanny so she could keep up with her beauty regimen. "Nothing deters me from my Botox treatments," she says. [WSJ]

Good morning and welcome. My name is Joshua David Stein. I'd like to get at you for a mo' about Top Chef, the Gossip Girl of culinary cinema verité programming.

It's not a very good week to be a Hollywood sibling, with the Russian roulette death of Scott Ruffalo followed soon afterward by Dakota Culkin's fatal encounter with a moving vehicle.

As all of America has no doubt been made aware of during her press tour for Marley & Me, Jennifer Aniston hates talking about Brad Pitt.

Wondering why so many diets have failed you in the past? It's probably because you weren't properly incentivized! A study by behavioral economists at the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon found that structuring a weight loss plan around cold hard cash worked marvelously, not surprisingly. The only downside? When the payments stopped, so did the weight loss. [Time]

Sure, Che Guevara was a Hero of the Revolution. But did he like to jack off a lot? Director Steven Soderbergh has done a lot of research on this issue:

Forget the debate surrounding the viability of The Dark Knight and WALL-E. A far more enduring question that has shaken the Oscar cosmos for the better part of 50 years is close to resolution:

[Actress Scarlett Johansson sandwiched between a dude and Michael Caine at a press conference for the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo; image via WENN]

• Newsweek is planning to cut staff as well as give the mag a makeover. [WSJ]
• NPR is cutting 7 percent of its staff and dropping two shows. [NYT]
• Ad spending fell 2 percent during the third quarter, although online advertising continued to grow. [Adage]
• Les Moonves isn't too worried about Jay Leno's move to primetime. [NYP]
• Rumor has it Entertainment Weekly may go web-only. [Gawker]
• Reed Elsevier, which has been trying to sell trade titles like Variety and Publishers Weekly, is pulling them off the market. [NYP]
• Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning. [HFPA]

Barack Obama just tried to reintroduce us to Tom Daschle, his new Health and Human Services secretary, but the press just wants to talk about bad Governor Blagojevich. Question time!