Seattle police have released video of the August death of 50-year-old woodcarver John Williams, who was shot by Officer Ian Birk after not following orders to drop his knife. Williams was deaf in one ear, and his knife was closed.

According to Gallup, Four in ten Americans—and 52 percent of Republicans—believe "God created humans in present form within the last 10,000 years." Ah, the Enlightenment! The age of science and rationality! It was fun while it lasted.

This weekend's New York Times wedding section tells the salacious tale of two people who coldly dumped their spouses for each other, and true love. How dare they disgrace the sanctity of the New York Times wedding section!

There's some confusion over the rape and sexual molestation allegations facing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Some think it's a simple mix-up over a broken condom. Newly leaked police reports about the incidents in question should put that idea to rest.

It was Sen. Bob Corker's turn to take hostages today with this latest "threat": If Democrats bring the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal and DREAM Act to votes tomorrow, as expected, then Republicans may kill the START treaty. Huh?

When Wikipedia launched in 2001, its handful of volunteers faced the daunting task of creating an open-source repository of the world's knowledge from scratch. Where did they start? Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, of course.

We've heard the ballad "Country Strong" from world's most perfect person Gwyneth Paltrow's new movie Country Strong, but did you know she also has a rootin'-tootin' up-tempo number? Oh, she does. And here it is! She's so country, isn't she??

The holiday movie season continues apace as we grow ever closer to the big year-end Christmas Day debuts. This Friday we have Reese Witherspoon figuring things out, Jeff Bridges stuck inside a computer, and Nicole Kidman feeling sad.

The Way We Live Now: putting on our best suit, looking you square in the eye, and instructing you to do something. That "something" is to get back into the stock market, immediately. We expect our advice to be followed.

A year ago today, we brought you news that hysterical paranoiac Glenn Beck was selling his $4.2 million walled fortress in New Canaan, Conn. He still hasn't sold it. Let's take another tour!

Doing some last minute decorating before the in-laws come and see the place? Well, we're giving away a lovely print to put up on your walls, and all you have to do to win it is enter a caption contest.

It's a bad idea to project random people's tweets, live and unfiltered, onto a giant screen at any event. But especially when that event is an EU summit, and one of the guests is sleazy Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A new study shows that Fox News viewers are more likely to believe demonstrably false things than viewers of other networks. Which is to be expected. But it also shows that the more you watch, the more misinformed you get.

Three years later, Naomi Campbell is defending wearing this series of couture outfits to performer her court-ordered community service for hitting her housekeeper in the head with a Vajazzled cell phone. The explanation is even worse than the act.

Rarely does a Real Housewives come with a building, terrible tension the way this one did. We knew everything was eventually going to teeter over into catastrophe, but not being sure just which moment would spark the fire, we waited...

Chloe Sevigny did Playboy's 20 Questions, and obviously Playboy saw fit to ask her about blowing Vincent Gallo in The Brown Bunny. She'll "probably have to go to therapy at some point." Also: A stirring defense of "It girls."

Cathouse, HBO's reality show about Nevada's legal Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel, is back and it's more than just giggles and fake tits. The sex is fun, but that's not why this is one of the greatest reality shows on television.

Last month, porn company West Coast Productions sued 9,729 anonymous BitTorrent users who illegally downloaded the film Teen Anal Nightmare 2. Luckily a judge just threw out the lawsuit. We're—er, these people must be so relieved.

[Last Friday, Barack Obama abandoned Bill Clinton at a press conference to attend a Christmas party. Big mistake! Because at the party, he had to "hang" with an a cappella group — an exhausting process. Image via Pete Souza/White House.]

Barack Obama and his regal wife Michelle are not on the invite list for Prince William's wedding next year. The royal says he wants to invite "ordinary citizens." French president Nicolas Sarkozy will get invited, however. Ordinary indeed!