For the past few months, we've all had some fun talking about Taylor Swift. Implying she was a lonely Confederate ghost stalking teenagers while waiting for her husband to return from The War; suggesting she was raised by chickens with country manners; alluding to the fact that through Taylor Swift's eyes, the world is a Lisa Frank-style Technicolor dreamscape where growing up means driving to the store to pick up your own candy for dinner.

Does Dan Stevens, Crawley family heir Cousin Matthew, dream of a whole new world? According to Daily Mail, Stevens bloody well intends to leave Downton Abbey at the end of the third, and current, series.

On Saturday, Lana Wachowski was honored with the Human Rights Campaign's Visibility Award at the organization's annual gala in San Fransciso. The resulting 25-minute acceptance speech is a highlight (if not the highlight) of her public output thus far.

People Magazine released the first image from Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel's wedding Wednesday, and in so doing confirmed that Jessica Biel was but an extravagantly dressed attendee of Justin Timberlake's wedding to himself.

The New York State court of appeals isn't known for having the coolest judges in all the judicial land, but they just furthered their lame rep to new lows. In a 4-3 vote, the high-ranking court ruled that strip clubs do in fact have to pay their state sales taxes.

An Illinois man hoarding 200 birds "of varying species" has had his suburban Aurora townhome condemned after a painting contractor working outside the property noticed "several dead birds" inside the house.

One of the many little thrills of being a part of the Obama campaign four years ago was a deep and abiding sense that, finally, a political leader had come along who could live up to our highest aspirations. Yes, Obama was cool and played basketball and was conversant in ironical youth culture, but when it came down to it, he was overwhelmingly serious. The other guys were hauling unlicensed plumbers onstage and suspending their campaign at the drop of a hat, but Obama kept his eyes on the prize and played the grown-up. Now he's talking about "Romnesia."

According to recently released reports, the FDA is investigating the link between Monster Energy drinks and five deaths, all of which occurred in the past year.

It feels good to see Pippa Middleton finally acknowledge the rock solid foundation on which her fame empire has truly been built: her ass, baby, we're talking about her ass.

Christina Aguilera's sixth studio album, Bionic, sold a little over 300,000 copies in the U.S. in total. which is terrible even for a time when nobody's buying albums (to contrast, P!nk's The Truth About Love sold over 280,000 copies its first week after it was released last month). Bionic had no real hit singles, either.

Italy, the country that earlier this year declared it a fineable offense to tell a man he has no balls, convicted seven seismologists of manslaughter on Monday, for failing to adequately assess the risk of a 2009 Earthquake that ended up killing 309 people.

What did you do this weekend? Go apple picking with your fiancée? Put up Halloween decorations with your kids? Make squash soup because it sounds like something The New You would do?

Just what is Lady Gaga up to these days? Is she still serving as scaffolding for tiny construction workers? Or copying Justin Bieber as he copies Aaron Carter? Nope. Instead she has discovered a new art in the form of slam poetry.

Tiny adult Daniel Radcliffe has broken up with his girlfriend Rosie Coker, according to a recent story published in the Daily Mail and confirmed by her father.

How much would you pay for a sauce if you happened to be eating a sandwich without sauce? $65? $10,000? An infinite number of dollars and promises and begs? What if the sauce was 20 years old? How much would you pay to taste the sauce of glories past?

Engaged couple and perfect criminals because who would ever suspect them Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are reportedly planning to pull off their most daring heist yet or maybe just get married this weekend, according to multiple reports.

Barbs are flying in the high stakes world of online coupon blogging after professional baby-haver Kate Gosselin was fired yesterday from her job ghostwriting blog posts about saving money sometimes.

Earlier this week, the Mongolian government toppled and removed the last remaining bronze statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin from Ulan-Bator, the country's capital city.

British artist Damien Hirst has come under fire in recent days, either for killing too many or not nearly enough butterflies (depending on whom you ask) at a recreation of his 1991 exhibition In and Out of Love as part of a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London.

Adele's "Someone Like You" is No. 22 on the Co-operative Funeralcare's chart of songs played at funerals, according to NME. Who knows how scientific the polling of "the UK's leading funeral director" is, but this does point to the fact that at least more than one person has selected a song whose narrator describes her object of affection as ultimately replaceable to play in tribute to the deceased.