All six of the contestants at the Apollo Amateur Night semifinals had already advanced through two rounds. Of them, only Cherayla Davis had won first place in both of her appearances. When James Brown competed in Amateur Night, he was booed. Luther Vandross and Lauryn Hill were also booed. Dave Chappelle: booed. Cherayla Davis had never been booed. And this night, she was going out first.

The guy from the White House advance team steps out of one of those crossover SUV things and at first I think he's the sort of awful D.C. jerkface who had to get his dad to call in a favor to stop him from getting fired from his summer internship for looking at porn during business hours, but once he leads us inside the gym (which is where the rally will be the next day) and I get a good look at him, I realize how wrong I was. This man is dreamy. He looks like he used to smoke pot very neatly out of a one-hitter and was [...]

Improbably-named political journalist Ole Ole Olson broke a kind of scandalous story on Alternet last week. It appears that a gang of conservatives calling themselves the DiggPatriots had been colluding for over a year on Yahoo! Groups to game the rankings on popular social media site Digg. This they achieved by systematically "burying" targeted liberal publications and stories and uprating conservative ones in order to limit the readership and perceived popularity of liberal stories, to inflate the readership and popularity of conservative ones. It's against the Digg terms of service to collude in the first place, but Olson claims he's also documented the DiggPatriots weaseling around their multiple individual [...]