Citing "several unforeseen professional responsibilities," Meghan McCain bowed out of a campus speaking engagement tonight... and is now tweeting up a storm about "my first real time off in months," partying with "my favorite crew of sinners" in Las Vegas.

The U.S. delegation to the United Nations summit walked out during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech today, as they seem to do every year. Today's reason? Ahmadinejad started talking about 9/11 being an inside job. God, he's annoying. [Image: Getty]

The Way We Live Now: spreading the wealth around. Around to the richest Americans. They pay most of the taxes, you know? It's only fair. Besides, with the work ethic Mexicans have, they'll be rich soon, too! Haha. Ha.

Joe Biden sounded pretty desperate at a fundraiser today, hoping that radical, frightening Tea Party primary victories will "shake some of our constituency out of their lethargy" for election day. A not-9.6% unemployment rate would probably be more effective, though.

Who: A fashion giant for three decades now, Talley is Vogue's former editor-at-large and currently a contributing editor at the magazine.

Retired FDNY firefighter Robert Linhart was arrested Tuesday after showing up at Madonna's home with an ice pick and telling police, "I won't stop until I actually meet Madonna." Asked by the Daily News if she's afraid, Madonna said "No."

Netflix had a big press event to promote its launch in Canada today. Dozens of random members of the public showed up, happy to give the assembled press soundbites. Except these people were paid extras!

[Barack Obama arrived by helicopter in Manhattan today to speak at the U.N. He cruised around town in a motorcade to avoid the hideous new TVs on the subway, naturally. Image via Getty]

Last year, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was accused of asking supporters to contribute to Gov. Rod Blagojevich in order to secure the Senate seat of Barack Obama. Now he's under fire for asking donors to fund his model mistress' lifestyle.

If Republicans take the House back this fall, there's one thing you can count on: their constant use of subpoena power. Meaning, they'll formally investigate Obama's every turn. They can't wait. In fact, they're already drafting a long, long list.

Mark Zuckerberg attended a screening of The Social Network near Seattle, a film critic and another person who was at the Facebook movie preview are claiming on Twitter. Facebook does have a new office in the city.

Adequate rapper Jay-Z has a book coming out. By Jay-Z. It's called DECODED. This book "decodes 36 songs from JAY-Z's extensive catalog." Great, since Jay-Z's lyrics are hard to interpret. "Get that dirt off your shoulder." What dirt?

[Drag comedian Murray Hill gropes burlesque performer Angie Pontani at the second season premiere of "Bored to Death", a show some of us like and think you should watch, in New York last night. Image via Getty]

Mad Men's Jon Hamm worked in porn. He wasn't an actor or a director but a set dresser on a soft-core movie. Not as racy as we'd hoped, but still "Hamm" and "porn" in the same sentence sure is something.

We thought it was bad when we learned that cell phones will work in the subway, but now another of our commuting nightmares has been realized. There are currently functioning televisions on the subway. Great, one more thing to ignore.

Who: Indie film queen Julianne Moore has turned in critically-acclaimed performances in Boogie Nights, Far From Heaven, and The Hours.

Someone left a nasty comment on gay rights blogger Joe.My.God's popular site. It read: "All faggots must die." Joe posted the IP address and asked readers to trace it. Turns out it came from a Georgia Republican Senator's office.

It's safe to return to Twitter. The microblogging service has successfully blocked the virus that crippled Twitter.com earlier today. So how was Twitter brought to its knees? Through an amateur coding error reported to the company over a month ago.

After pleading guilty to cocaine possession yesterday, Paris Hilton took a private plane to Japan where the authorities detained her for six hours and grilled her about the drug allegations. If pink-and-girly Paris isn't welcome in Japan, who'll have her?

The Washington Post hasn't had much luck with its own crappy Op-Ed columnists, so the paper's launching another contest to find "America's Next Great Pundit." As a public service, we've assembled this surefire guide to scoring this low-paid, part-time gig.