Katie Couric picked on Sarah Palin's kids' names, but maybe she would have been more understanding if she'd been familiar with Sarah's naming strategy? One commenter explains.
It's been more than 72 hours now since America's princess Chelsea Clinton got hitched, and you, the little people, are likely going into Chelsea withdrawal. Click through immediately for today's Chelsea news: real estate! Party time! And Jews!
Lawrence Salander, the former prominent Manhattan art dealer arrested last year for stealing more than $100 million from his clients, has been sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison. He ripped off John McEnroe, Robert Deniro, and many others.
Good news on the oil spill front! Not only is BP's "static kill" tactic apparently working, there's a new report from the U.S. government saying that the oil in the Gulf of Mexico "poses only a slight risk." Huzzah!
Alas! America's first family Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have called it quits, again, after Johnston told Palin he may have fathered a child with an ex-girlfriend. Is there any hope? Levi's lawyer thinks so!
[Authorities seized $100 million of fake designer merchandise—including sunglasses and purses—from Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco today. Now you'll have to save up for the real thing. Image via AP]
The backers of the "Ground Zero" "Mosque"—a proposed Muslim community center in an old Burlington Coat Factory building—say they'll include a 9/11 memorial in their building. So every posturing idiot, shut up please. What's that, Abe Foxman?
Washington Post television critic Tom Shales never really cottoned to the idea of Christiane Amanpour hosting ABC News' Sunday morning show, This Week. And in his comically bitchy review of Amanpour's debut yesterday, he wonders: does she support the Taliban?
Lobsterman Denny Ingram caught a yellow lobster last week! It is a Lobster Prince, and it granted him six wishes in exchange for its freedom. (That, or, it's a rare genetic anomaly occurring in one in 30 million lobsters.) [NYDN]
Rapper Cam'ron once asked of Jay Z: "How is the King of New York rockin' sandals with jeans?" Well, Jay Z fan President Barack Obama followed in his footsteps and wore sandals with jeans to DC's International Spy Museum. Mandals!
It's hot outside! And yet, thanks to "society," you still have to wear clothes. The New York Times thinks you should do things like wear linen. Whatever! We have better ideas.
A couple was arrested after the bodies of eight newborn babies were uncovered in France, some buried in the garden of a home that was recently sold. The case is the latest in a string of similar crimes in France.
Want to add some spice to you Wednesday night? Join our live blog of Top Chef in the comments section under this post! It has all the ingredients of a good time — and no monosodium glutamate!
[This is a four-day-old zedonk standing with its mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Georgia. A zedonk is 50 percent zebra, 50 percent donkey, and 100 percent CUTE. Photo via AP.]
Police found eight heads in four different places outside of Durango. They had received an anonymous tip that two heads were located beside each of three roads leaving the nothern Mexican city. Roadside cleaners found the other two. [AFP]
Last week, a family of five in Staten Island died in a house fire. After initially blaming 14 year-old C.J. for killing his family, police backtracked yesterday, saying the mother did it. To whom does the media owe an apology?