Last week, we discovered that Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski chugs vodka from a mug before noon. This week, she dispels that rumor. She's not drunk, just "extremely hungry, to the point where I feel like I might lose control."

America's most famous mosque-lovers, Barack Obama and Michael Bloomberg, played golf on Martha's Vineyard today! The White House adds that they spent 15 minutes talking about the economy. It took them that long to say "It sucks"?

Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-minded social network, has great online buzz, thanks to $200,000 in start-up funds raised exclusively through Kickstarter and a dirty nerdy joke they slipped past the Times. Now, a launch date is set: September 15th. [Wired]

The age of Gaga ubiquity is upon us. Official, licensed Lady Gaga costumes have arrived at Halloween stores, and include used soda can hair rollers and lots of fishnet. Prediction: Gaga prisoners outsell sexy prisoners this years.

A California judge has ruled that Sarah Palin's $75,000 contract for a state university speech shouldn't have been kept private. Now you can read it! Earlier this year, some dumpster-diving college kids had salvaged the part demanding bendable straws.

The US Ambassador to Thailand's teenage daughter fell 22 stories to her death early this morning, in what was apparently an accident during a party in Manhattan.

Did you know airplanes have automated messages that notify passengers when they are falling into the sea? A British Airways flight recently told passengers, "We're about to crash," prompting widespread panic. Then the flight attendants were like, "Psyche!"

Oh, ho: How much do you really like that attractive man in the Old Spice ads? Yes, Isaiah Mustafa's twelve billion-ad onslaught did boost sales. But further review shows you only loved him for his coupon!

By accident! Don't get all freaked out. It was an accident! The Easton, PA high school put the Hitler quote "And in the last analysis, success is what matters" in its 2010 yearbook, not noticing that it was a Hitlerism.

The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder, while fielding questions about his recent revelation that ex-RNC chair and Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman is gay, has dropped another interesting nugget: Mehlman claims to be a virgin.

The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance already outlawed mullets, but the most recent targets of its anti-Western crusade are much cuter and more cuddly: puppies and kitties. Yes, there is a fatwa against pets.

Kim Kardashian's search for an Emmys dress frustrates. Lindsay Lohan drives a Maserati after midnight. Taylor Swift frolics with a possible boyfriend. Heidi Montag worries about her face falling off. TGIFriday gossip.

This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast and left hundreds of dead bodies floating in the wrecked streets of New Orleans. To celebrate, Katrina hero Michael Brown is "speaking out."

New Jersey guy Wyclef Jean is still whining about being disqualified from a presidential election in a country that he doesn't live in. So he wrote a song! In it, he says the electoral council should be thrown in prison.

Last Sunday a Thai woman was stopped at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport when security screeners saw x-ray images of bones among a stash of stuffed tiger toys in her luggage. Inside they found a drugged two-month old tiger cub.

Manhattan criminal judge James Gibbons resigned on Thursday after officials found porn on his work computer. But wait! What kind of porn?

Oh my god! The Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn has two baby baboons, and they are so cute. They also don't have names, and the zoo is holding a contest to name them. Do you want to watch them play?

Michael Enright, the drunk filmmaker accused of stabbing a cabdriver in Manhattan after asking "Are you Muslim?", worked well with both American soldiers and Muslims while in Afghanistan. So what happened? Was it his "intense experience" in the war-torn country?

Vogue editor Anna Wintour has a long-standing relationship with tennis star Roger Federer. Now he's admitted that he turns to her fashion advice. One recent comment on a pink outfit: "Oh, you sure about that Roger?" Point, set, and match.

She's ba-ack! After 13 days of incarceration and 22 more in rehab, Lindsay Lohan has returned to Twitter: "Clearly.. Paparazzi shouldn't be allowed to take pictures or video while someone's driving or at a stop light. 4every1's sake #trafficpolice"