Matt Drudge is STILL running this meretricious caption which implies that Barack Obama has a drinking problem even though it was clearly debunked yesterday. In fact, he’s added the debunking bit to make it look as if the President doesn’t take good care of his teeth. He’s crafty, that guy. Anyway, the President does not have a drinking problem. But, really, could you blame him if he did?

“Boris couldn’t finish off what he started with the cows. For some reason his tackle would veer off at 45 per cent at the vital moment and all was lost. But after a few days of the treatment Boris was back to his randy old self.”
-West Midlands farmer Dave Joyce discusses how French Limousin bull Boris was spared a trip to the slaughterhouse after a course of herbal Viagra helped him regain his penile joie de vivre. It really is a fuck-or-be-eaten world out there.

“37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.”

Video-famous rock band OK Go have released another great clip. This one, for the song “This Too Shall Pass,” has them lip-synching something that sounds kind of like the Flaming Lips as they revolve around a giant Rube Goldberg machine. Fast Company adds value with a making-of piece, although you might not want to watch it if you have any interest in liking the band members’ personalities. (Maybe they’re nice guys, I don’t know, but the heavy “we-heart-nerds” stuff in there is very uncomfortable.) The link includes two other classic Goldberg-inspired pieces: that amazing Honda Accord commercial from three years ago, and the film that inspired it, Fischli and Weiss’s The Way Things Go.

16. Tesla, “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)”

15. Electric Angels, “Rattlesnake Kisses”

14. Warrant, “Down Boys”

13. Bang Tango, “Someone Like You”

12. Ratt, “Round And Round”

11. Pretty Boy Floyd, “Rock & Roll (Is Gonna Set The Night On Fire)”

10. Faster Pussycat, “You’re So Vain”

9. LA Guns, “One More Reason”

8. Electric Boys, “All Lips N’ Hips”

7. Quireboys, “7 O’Clock”

6. Skid Row, “Monkey Business”

5. White Lion, “Wait”

4. Winger, “Seventeen”

3. Living Colour, “Cult Of Personality”

2. Dangerous Toys, “Scared”

1. Love/Hate, “Straightjacket”

Expect this to get exactly the same amount of attention that the original story did:

The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group ACORN was a ‘heavily edited’ splice job that only made it appear as though the organization’s workers were advising a pimp and prostitute on how to get a mortgage, sources said yesterday. The findings by the Brooklyn DA, following a 5½-month probe into the video, secretly recorded by conservative provocateurs James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, means that no charges will be filed. Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said.

Ha, I’m kidding! Expect it to get exactly the attention it got today, buried in a small box at the bottom of page 2.

The NBC workhorse “Law & Order” has a history with the music business, having lightly fictionalized such pop phenomena as Diddy, Kevin Federline, and crappy East Village punk bands during its storied tenure. Last night, inspired by a grisly crime last year that was dubbed “the horrocore murders,” the Juggalo subculture finally came under Dick Wolf’s microscope.

Last night’s episode, “Steel-Eyed Death,” was serious business from the beginning, with a victim who had a knife sticking out of his neck getting some screen time within the episode’s first two minutes. There were also apparently amnesia claims, shout-outs to post-9/11 PTSD, partner-to-partner confessions, and jokes about Jeremy Sisto’s character having to shave off his scruff. (That last part is the saddest part!)

But the Internet is going to know this episode as “the Juggalo episode” because of its foray into the online and offline worlds of horrorcore, a genre with a fanbase that tends to be treated like zoo animals by the type of people who feel that they’re above wearing clown makeup as a way of paying tribute to their favorite muscians. (OK, so, the music isn’t very good either. But could you imagine the sort of automatic disdain Juggalos receive being placed on, say, Animal Collective fans?)

As anyone who’s ever watched even half a rerun of “L&O;” might expect, the Juggalo subculture was painted with something of a broad brush. It would seem that they don’t get reruns of the show in Australia, though, because the Aussie horrorcorist KidCrusher, whose music was featured on the show, was pretty excited about the exposure for his music, which includes the chestnuts “Killin’ Shit” and “A Dirty Fuckin’ Murder”! Until he got wind of what actually transpired on NBC last night. “LAW & ORDER SPIT ON JUGGALOS, he said in all-caps on MySpace, continuing:

I am pretty pissed off to hear they based the episode on Juggalos and try to make us all look like criminals and real serial killers (and think we would kill kids?!). They never told me the full details on the episode before I signed the contract for the release of my music video, all they told me was it was going to be based upon a Horrorcore Festival and they needed my music and a video for it. I do not support the fact that people that don’t know who we really are, can be quick to say “ ITS A FACT “

This just in: Television might be a bit sensational! Also, the whole “Law & Order” “twist” thing is still really important to the NBC promo department.

Meanwhile, the Michigan horrorcore duo Twiztid took to Twitter to express their dismay:

Im super disappointed that the episode of Law & Order yesterday dealing with Horrorcore portrayed US (the Juggalos) in such a bad light… I understand that the show deals with criminal matters but to take our whole musical genre and following and peg us as unstable shit bags with steak knives to little kids necks is taking it WAY toooooo far! That just simply NOT what we (the Family) represent…. and NBC is way out of line for that shit. Very very tacky NBC….. we BOOOOO you and your half hearted half assed 1sided views.

Sure, the Juggalo faithful might be overly sensitive. But those people who are feeling a bit burned by the whole “Tonight Show” fiasco must be giggling a bit at the idea that NBC had even lower depths to plumb when it came to being “tacky”!

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Because why not, here is the climactic scene from Blade Runner as rendered in Lego. Is it really just Tuesday? [Via]

Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) “is single-handedly blocking an emergency extension of unemployment benefits — and checks to hundreds of thousands of people whose jobless pay ran out this week.” That group includes 8000 New Yorkers, but who else is he hurting? Here’s a handy map!

HIPAA privacy rules may prevent Miami dentist Dr. Virgil Mongalo from getting into the specifics of the dental procedure that resulted in the start of Lil Wayne’s jail term being pushed back to today, but he’s more than free to brag about how much bank he made: “When asked about the $150,000 price Wayne is quoted to have paid, Dr. Mongalo paraphrased Don Quixote: ‘A tooth is worth more than a diamond.’” What this means for the relative value of a Google Trends-hopping press release remains maddeningly unclear.