A whopping 21 percent of Americans are "extremely or very confident" the Big Bang happened. 51 percent are not too confident or not at all confident the Big Bang happened. I just... no. NO. Quit it. SIT. Bad America. Science good. Don't make us call Neil again.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army (retired), had a really tough time after he was pushed out of the workforce. Would you like to hear about it? He would like to tell you about it. Welcome to LinkedIn's Career Curveball® confessionals!

Powdered alcohol—a.k.a. "Palcohol"—due to be unleashed upon an unprepared, very drunk world this fall, may turn out to be a fading dream. The federal agency that approved the product now says that approval was an error.

R. Kelly was sued in 2010 for allegedly sexually harassing his maid, according to a Page Six item in the New York Post. So if you thought the days of him potentially ruining the lives of girls and women through alleged acts including but not limited to rape were long behind him...yeah, no.

In a 6-2 ruling announced on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that banned affirmative action policies in publicly funded institutions, including state universities.

Step 1: Catch a boot to the head while trying to take a selfie with a passing train. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!

The unlikeliest publishing and economics news of the year: Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is so popular that it is sold out on Amazon, as well as in every fucking book store in NYC. Harvard University Press has yet to master supply and demand.

Is Lindsay Lohan really drinking again? Did she actually have a miscarriage? It's all apparently up in the air in the wake of the harrowing finale of her reality show.

At long last, advertisers are ready to "solve" the "problem" of you rudely ignoring the television ads that they spent so much effort crafting, by looking at your cell phone when the commercials come on.

Dan Clevenger, the mayor of Marionville, Mo., resigned Monday night, just six days after he told reporters he "kind of agreed" with Frazier Glenn Miller, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who allegedly shot three people to death at two Kansas Jewish centers last week.

By now you've probably heard of "Pervert Dave" Cummings, the Florida man who vaulted to posthumous fame when an obituary including his peculiar nickname hit viral velocity. But according to a new story, we didn't know the half of it—like the time he shot Wheelchair Skip six times.

Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic steered right into the rocks last week when Social Network director David Fincher dropped the project because Sony reportedly wouldn't meet his demands for a $10 million paycheck. Fincher's first (and only) choice to play the Apple founder was Christian Bale—so who's going to fill that Jobs-shaped hole?

America's best rapping newsman is back: On last night's The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon debuted Brian Williams' pitch-perfect "cover" of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice." It's even better than Williams' now classic rendition of "Rapper's Delight."

Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo. It is a case which reportedly has entertainment industry executives wearing out their Xanax prescriptions, as they contemplate the destruction of the entire economic foundation of the television industry. The press keeps repeating statements like that, anyway.

In a news release today, relatives of the late David Foster Wallace said that they are "opposed" to the making of the forthcoming James Ponsoldt-directed biopic of the author, which stars Jason Segel as Wallace and is titled The End of the Tour.

Football, a sport steeped in working class history, has now regrettably fallen into the soft, pasty hands of the well-bred citizens of New York. According to a piece published in the New York Times last week, soccer has amassed a following of literary types who find the game "a public display of global cultural literacy."

The Boy Scouts of America have revoked the charters of the Rainier Beach United Methodist Church after their openly gay Scoutmaster, Geoffrey McGrath, was ousted in March by the organization but its members refused to remove him.

Lindsay Lohan proclaimed herself "a bit of a narcissist" on the season finale of her OWN show Lindsay last night, and yet that show was too ugly even for her to stomach. Before a single episode of the show had aired, Lohan intimated to Jimmy Fallon that Lindsay presented a distorted view of her life, in its portrayal of her move from L.A. to New York. (She also intimated that she wasn't reprimanded by her boss, Oprah Winfrey, which she was, so perhaps Lohan has a distorted view of her own distortion).

Update: this piece and headline have been revised to attribute the allegations to the prosecutors.

Kraft, owner of hot dog giant and personal friend of mine Oscar Mayer, has recalled 96,000 pounds of Oscar Mayer Classic Wieners because they weren't plain wieners. They were different wieners—stuffed with cheese.