Two interesting results from this wide-ranging 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll: 59% think Sarah Palin lacks "the ability to be an effective president"; and the strongest resistance to a new tanning tax comes from seniors. What does your leathery grandpa think?

Hurricane Earl is "gathering strength" off the coast of Puerto Rico, and may send squalls all the way to Maine this week. Earl has kindly agreed to leave the Gulf coast alone, though, because it's got enough to deal with.

That Tea Party Guide to Washington for Glenn Beck's rally should've warned attendees in advance about the new five-cent bag tax in the District. But it didn't, and look what happened: stunned Tea Partiers hurling sandwiches at deli employees.

YouTube, the video brand most closely associated with freak babies, freak kids and cheap pranks, is reportedly poised to charge for its high quality content. Whatever high quality content, that is, the Google video service can drum up.

While most of us are excited for serial-adulterer slob Newt Gingrich's possible presidential run, ultra-conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is decidedly not, saying, "He's the last person I'd vote for for president of the United States." Out of everyone!

Unhappy with a deal that Digg.com's management cut with major media companies, the social news site's users turned Digg's front page into a de facto advertisement for rival aggregator Reddit today, upvoting scores of Reddit links.

"Girrrrrrrl, u don't take sh#@ from anybody. U are fab-u-lous," announces the completely earnest new website of Ellie Scarborough, daughter of highest-paid NYC news anchor Chuck. For $272, Ellie will send text messages and "better-than-sex truffles" to cheer you up.

The sweet smell of success hung in the air when Don Draper won a Clio award on Mad Men. However the stink of ambition was also ubiquitous and the things people will do to get ahead were frightening.

Sarah Palin, taking to Twitter, is furious at mainstream media "sheeple" for calling the major rally in Washington D.C. this weekend "irrelevant." But why is she crediting the rally to famous musical artist Beck instead of Glenn Beck?

Former Bush administration U.N. ambassador and angry flappy-mouthed war monster John Bolton has been asked, out of the blue, if he'd consider a presidential run in 2012. He can't bring himself to say "no." Oh god. Run for cover!

First, there were paid internships. Those were okay. Then, there were unpaid internships. Those were just slightly better than nothing. Now, there are internships you pay for, which won't even get you a high-paying job. Those are a scam.

America's trashiest magazine collides with Snooki's allegedly abusive, fame-seeking boyfriend. Paris Hilton is "not worried" about her cocaine arrest. Kim Kardashian sees her sister's vagina and likes it. Naya Rivera definitely egged Mark Salling's car. Monday gossip is a mess.

A group of 100 Russian skinheads stormed a crowd of concertgoers on Sunday, reportedly killing a 14-year-old girl. Details are still sketchy, but local media is reporting that some 100 people were injured while police "were inactive or ran away."

You know the assholes from Westboro Baptist Church who protest everything with "God Hates Fags"? They were picketing a funeral in Nebraska for a Marine killed in Afghanistan when a man drove by and fired pepper spray. Hero?

We were all delighted by the incomprehensible racist (?) t-shirt a guy wore to Glenn Beck's "Restoring America" rally yesterday: ""BLACKS OWN SLAVES IN MAUITANIA (sic), SUDAN, NIGER, & HAITI." It appears Racist T-shirt Guy is a minor D.C. celebrity.

A Las Vegas woman who went missing in April, Billie Jean James, was found dead in her home this week by her husband, who spotted her feet sticking out from a pile of junk. Welcome to Extreme Hoarders: Death Trap.

Washington State resident Ron Spears was really mad that he had to pay a $330 past due property tax. In protest, he decided to pay the whole thing in pennies. This did not go over well at the treasurer's office.

In honor of Anna Wintour's fake charity Fashion's Night Out, Barneys New York commissioned doll maker Andrew Yang to produce a doll of the Vogue editrix. (Pins not included.) There's also one of Vogue hero Grace Coddington for cuddling.

Sarah Palin-backed Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, who's likely to pull off a surprising upset over incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, thinks that Murkowski is a real whore. Oops! Here comes a deleted tweet...

Last night our squad of wannabe designers was cloven down the middle to form two teams: "The Golden Children" and the "Bad News Bears." It was a battle for the ages, and General Tim Gunn was not pleased.