Alcohol-memes are the new non-alcohol-memes. In recent weeks we've had picklebacks, vodka-eyeballing and butt-chugging for fauxhemians, students and idiots respectively. Today's drinking-trend-sweeping the nation is called 'bros icing bros'. It's for frat boys. And it may be viral marketing.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claims that Australian officials confiscated his passport. He added, ominously, that Australian police questioned him about his past. Was it payback for the time Wikileaks published a secret government document? We call bullshit.

A mysterious fungus is wreaking havoc on Afghanistan's opium poppies, which account for 92% of the world's supply. Local farmers blame the US military and NATO after a white substance appeared on their crops. The United Nations blames nature.

Oh, Rush. While everyone is focused on the environmental and economic impact of the oil rig explosion and subsequent spill, Limbaugh has his own theory: the rig was blown up by "hardcore environmentalist wackos."

The city is plagued by gun violence, so Democratic lawmakers are asking for the National Guard to use techniques learned on "nation-building assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan" to restore order. Glenn Beck was right... martial law is coming! [AP, pic]

American Thinker blogger's shocking discovery: Barack Obama pretended to attend a non-existent soccer game in a crime-ridden neighborhood! Subsequent updates prove President attended real soccer game in nice neighborhood. Lesson: never trust liberal media. (Rush Limbaugh eventually picked it up.)

With the census due, conservatives worry that months of stoking fear among their constituents may come back to bite them in the ass, because a low turn out could mean a loss of Republican seats in Congress. Brilliant move, guys.

Happy Census Day! The government hopes you've already sent in your 2010 census form. (Census Day should've been before the due date though, right?) Even the president had to. But some people are scared of getting counted by the government.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has only been in office since January, but he's already demonstrated that Virginians accidentally elected a crazy person. First, it was routine gay-hating. Now it's Birtherism and grand paranoia.

The Huffington Post removed a 9/11 "Truther" post from former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. According to their editor's note, "The Huffington Post's editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy theories...." Oh, really?

Not three days after his government doctor told him to cut back on cholesterol, Barack Obama ate a big greasy plate of fried "get out of my face, hippie" food, described below. Why must the president constantly embarrass socialized medicine?

Here's a story on how doctors are hesitant to prescribe marijuana because they don't have enough scientific information about it, and here's a story about how the government refuses to approve studies of marijuana's medical properties. Hmm. [Pic via]

Google wants everyone talking about its unique defiance of China's authoritarian rulers. But Silicon Valley gossips increasingly see that spin as a cover-up for the real story: A humiliating security breach exposed cloud computing's dangers and imperils Google's growth.

Wacky Korean nation North Korea is calling for peace treaty talks with the US—just months after Bill Clinton went there to save two reporters and took fun fotos with Kim Jong-Il. Coincidence? Bill Clinton wins Nobel Peace Prize 2010!

Dan Rodriguez, who booked and organized the 2004 show that jump-started the "Andrew W.K. is an impostor" internet conspiracy theory, has weighed in on the ol' switcharoo story. (He is pretty sure there is just one Andrew W.K.)

On his radio show yesterday, popular hysterical demagogue Glenn Beck insulted a "Birther." He noted, correctly, that while he is often accused of being a conspiracist, he has not endorsed the Obama-was-born-in-Kenya conspiracy. Then, in order to make sure people continued referring to him as a conspiracist, he alleged that calls from birthers were part of an organized White House effort to discredit the opposition. Just like every racist sign at a Tea Party is being held by a secret left-wing provocateur.

Goodbye, mystique: A totem collector is auctioning off a magic skull/ stash box that once belonged to Yale's planet-controlling secret society Skull "n" Bones. Plus, "a black book with names and photographs of earlier members." Nick Denton, bid now! [AP]

For a former child star, Soleil Moon Frye has done some very impressive networking. Her celebrity buddies in Hollywood have kept the 1980s actress in the media spotlight. But she's also insinuated herself atop the Silicon Valley power structure.

Orange County Newsmaker of the Year, Birther Queen, Attorney, and Dentist Orly Taitz says it is time to begin our armed rebellion! But her former lover says she is treacherous!

Climate change is real and man-made. Period, end of story. But recently, some emails have leaked that conclusively prove that climate scientists... are really pissed off that a well-funded industry exists that subverts and denies their work.