Since Tuesday, Egypt has been in a state of open revolt with protesters taking over the streets of Cairo and other cities and towns demanding the removal of a defiant President Hosni Mubarak. Here's a roundup of the latest reports.
Charlie Sheen's coke-fueled evening with a porn star and subsequent trip to the hospital has earned him another stint in rehab. He checked into an undisclosed facility earlier today and Two and a Half Men is now on hiatus.
Celebrate the last weekend of January by taking yourself to see a movie. You can choose from an East LA riches to rags tale, a depressing thing about Berlin, another Anthony Hopkins head-scratcher, and guns. Lots and lots of guns.
The notorious tea party-backing, climate change-denying Koch brothers are hosting their semiannual secret meeting of 200 rich and powerful people this year in Palm Springs. There they will plot global domination and compare yachts. And no tweeting allowed!
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak just addressed his country and was not offering much. He says he has no plans to resign. His only concession to protesters? He'll break up his government and personally appoint a new one tomorrow. Gee, thanks.
Now that Comcast is officially taking over NBC Universal today, the cable company has unveiled a horrible new logo for the famed broadcaster. The response hasn't been too kind. But we know you can come up with something better!
Rep. Dennis Kucinich has settled his case against the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria, which sold him a "dangerous" olive pit-filled sandwich in 2008 that destroyed his teeth. Kucinich announced the settlement with a gross statement this afternoon.
Looking for a little light to get you through darkest winter? Well we're giving away two charming lamps from Typewriter Boneyard and all you have to do to win one is enter a caption contest!
Rumor has it Mark Zuckerberg might make a cameo on this week's SNL hosted by Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg. Here's an idea for a sketch: Mark Zuckerberg develops a highly-inaccurate social network based on Jesse Eisenberg's college years.
Today in inadvertently funny headlines, there's this high school basketball piece from Kansas's Leader & Times. Sadly, the article does not tell the tale of a hard-luck working girl overcoming the odds to issue her traditional mating sound. (via)
Outgoing White House spokesman Robert Gibbs started his press briefing after hours of delay this afternoon, and man, did he look terrified! Probably because there's a semi-revolution in a crucial American client state, currently. Will American turn on Egypt's president?
It seems counterintuitive to build a snow monster that breathes fire, but that is just what one family in Bel Air, Maryland, did with their snow day yesterday. This is really one seriously ornate snow sculpture.
A proposed law in Malawi would ban, among other things, the public passing of gas. If farting is criminalized, only criminals will fart. And criminals have really stinky farts because of poor dietary habits. [via]
How does Joe Biden like those "spoofs" depicting him as an womanizing, shirtless playboy madman in the Onion? "I think it's hilarious," he tells an interviewer. He claims he's a "square" in reality, though, which is a lie. [Image via]
Scary video of a yellow cab exploding in Manhattan made the rounds yesterday. Here's a new video from the outer boroughs: Watch this cab get engulfed in Williamsburg on Wednesday due to the snow.
High-profile Wikileaks competitor Openleaks officially launched today. In a sign of what's to come, Openleaks' website was leaked to another secret-sharing website two days before its launch. It's leaks all the way down.
It was a trip to Opryland last night, as the American Idol murderbus rolled into Nashville. Oddly, though Nashville has something of a reputation for being a music city, the singtestants last night largely failed to inspire.
Alaska's attorney general has set a May deadline for state officials to release 26,500 pages of emails from Sarah Palin's gubernatorial administration. Can you imagine reading through 26,500 pages of Palin's annoying emails? Drugs would be necessary.
Kacey Jordan fondly recalls the green crack pipe Charlie sucked before yesterday's hospitalization. Jesse James plans a trip to Israel. Katy Perry's diet "absolutely sucks." Leonardo DiCaprio whips his hair back and forth. TGIFriday gossip.
I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of people are becoming citizens without "respecting our immigration laws" or "following the rules." These people are called babies. And Sen. Rand Paul (R - Ky.) is doing something about them.