America's most famous burlesque sister act, the Kardashians, will launch a Kardashian Kollection at over 400 Sears stores this August. Sounding Palinesque, Kourtney said, "There's a Sears right near our house." But have you ever been inside? Didn't think so.

After reading Julian Assange's infamous OKCupid profile, Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger has declared the Wikileaks founder a bitter, underminey seducer who will make his lovers as miserable as he is, and be tortured by them. You don't say.

The young man seen here was apparently caught bragging about gang-banging activities, on Facebook. His uncle decided to whup his ass with a belt, live on video. Here is what strong social media boundary-setting looks like. Parents, take note.

Mississippi Gov. Haley "Boss Hogg" Barbour, a possible presidential candidate, doesn't want to seem so racist. First he pardoned two black ladies in a kidneys-for-freedom deal. Now he's asking the state to build its long-delayed civil rights museum. [via]

Doing publicity for Snooki is a pretty straightforward. You put her in a vaguely inappropriate context, aim a camera at her, then wait for media outlets to stumble into your trap. Example: Snooki making over an 11-year-old.

Like Donal Logue before him, the poor guy just can't get a break. Also today: Tom Cruise considers rocking out, Batman needs a new galpal so who will it be??, and sexy news about sexy Justin Long.

Every so often there are those exposes about the torture of working in a Disney theme park. Here's one by YouTube's Swoozie06that's a little bit lighter and done with the help of some humorous stick figure animation.

Probably not. But it's fun to think about! The rapper/headphone entrepreneur told his 3.8 million Twitter acolytes to buy stock in a company called H&H over the weekend, causing a buying surge that earned him $5.2 million.

McDonald's (formerly "The United States Department of Health") has plans for Japan. Big plans. Idaho big. With a hash brown on top.

According to the number crunchers at Forbes, one-woman Vaudeville revue Lady Gaga will earn about $100 million in 2011 thanks to concerts, endorsements, and profits from her new album. But did they account for her considerable wardrobe budget?

In her response to accusations her violent rhetoric was connected to Jared Loughner's shooting spree, Sarah Palin claimed that media figures had manufactured a "blood libel" against her. How would the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish civil rights group, take this?

Gay magazine The Advocate used its own formula to assemble a list of the most homotastic cities in America and published the results today. You may be shocked by which city is the gayest, and which ones don't even rank.

No, it's not just your three friends from college and your ex-girlfriend and your cousin and those guys who used to be in your band: all the kids these days are moving to Austin, Texas. I heard Austin's cool, yeah.

Check out the hot new trend sweeping posh Manhattan restaurants: Eating your meal, then running away before you pay the check! "Theft of service" was up 20 percent last year, and the people doing it weren't just poor jerks.

What did Jared Lee Loughner talk about in his online video game forums? Violent, angry things, of course, under the names Heroin, XTC and Erad.

A Canadian couple is vowing to name their baby—due in three weeks—after the person who returns their dog. She was possibly snatched from the couple's backyard. Let's hope they keep a better eye on the baby.

Did you know that in addition to following Gawker on Facebook, you can follow individual Gawker staffers on Facebook, too? You can!

Hollywood's resident madman Nicolas Cage went on a property buying spree in the 2000s, only to find out that, oops, he couldn't afford all those houses. This is one of those places, an $8.9 million palace in America's grossest city.

Chet Hanks is the son of actor Tom Hanks. He attends Northwestern University. Chet Haze is "an up and coming MC...Born and raised on the West Side of the Westside's main city LA." Yes, he has a new Northwestern-themed single.

Here's a new trailer for the springtime alien disaster movie Battle: Los Angeles. You may remember that an earlier trailer got us all excited and, happily, this new, more plot-heavy reel doesn't diminish that feeling. This looks good, guys!