What better way to solve conflicts than by drinking beer?

Beers of Choice:

— President Barack Obama, Bud Light
— Vice President Joseph Biden, Buckler non-alcoholic
— Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Samuel Adams Light
— Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley, Blue Moon

Madonna sex tape out there for sale?

Madonna has never shied away from displaying her overt sexuality, so it’s surprising that it's taken this long for a sex tape starring Madonna to emerge. Well, wait no longer.

According to the UK’s The Daily Mirror, the 50-year-old pop singer is bracing herself for some intimate personal belongings to be put up for sale. The paper reports that “old X-rated video tapes, voice messages, and love letters are about to be made public.” The naughty memorabilia stems from her 1992 relationship with bodyguard Jim Albright and will soon be for sale through a public auction.

One source who has seen the items up for auction says, “"This is extremely private memorabilia. Never in a million years did Madonna think it would be made public. She is mortified. Some of this stuff makes her Sex book of the '90s look tame.”

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Ex-American Idol contestant calls the show "fixed"

American Idol season 8 semi-finalist Ju'Not Joyner spoke out against the reality show competition, claiming it's rigged. In a chat with AI Now, the singer made it clear that although he's thankful for the opportunity, he was never given a fair shot on the show.

"Welll ... first of all, let me say that I'm grateful that I was on the show. Now that that's out the way, I hated L.A. I met some cool folks but overall, it's a fixed thing if I every saw one," he says.
"The producers know who they want and they slant it to reflect that. They fix it in a way that makes you surprised but it's still manipulated," he continues.
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"Think about it...ADAM, ADAM, ADAM then...Kris....SURPRISE!" Ju'Not adds.

The former contestant elaborated his point, emphasizing that it is a TV series. "What I mean is that people think AI is a talent show. No. It's a reality show with writers!! We're all actors. All these shows have writers that guide the public opinion. 'The Hills,' 'Real World.' All of them."

Questionable future for independent record stores

EMI Quits Selling CDs to Indie Record Stores? Company wants to cut costs, says must buy from “one stops” like Wal-Mart to sell instead.

The music industry knows how to hang out itself, even if it lacks the correct length pf rope. EMI, certainly reeling from declining physical album sales like the other Big 4 record labels, is now apparently telling independent album retailers that it will no longer sell them CDs.

That’s right, EMI apparently told them over the phone a few weeks ago, an oddly perverse means of notification, that henceforth it will no longer sell them physical albums and that they must go to “one stops” like Wal-Mart or Best Buy to buy product like everybody else to then in turn sell.

“Several I have spoken with are so upset that they vow never to buy any EMI catalog again–or any new artist releases either,” says Wayne Rosso, former president of the P2P program Grokster, on his blog. “Only the certifiable hit product that they know will sell. They will no longer take chances on new EMI artists.”

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Free Market Warrior Kiosk closed in Charlotte

"Al Qaeda's favorite days: 9/11/01 and 11/04/08."

"Work Harder. Obama needs the money."

The bumper stickers and posters sold at "Free Market Warrior" at Concord Mills are meant to be "biting," the kiosk's owner Loren Spivack said.

At least one passerby found them racist and bigoted, and took time to tell the mall in a letter and a letter to the editor of the Charlotte Observer.

Whatever your opinion, the fact is this: At the end of July, Free Market Warrior will not be allowed at Concord Mills Mall. Mall management has decided that the items sold are not "neutral" enough. The lease will be allowed to expire July 31, 2009 without an option to renew.

Spivack says he is careful not to sell things that personally attack a politician and wants a fair exchange of ideas. "The material that I sell is about politics and ideas," he told Newschannel 36. "It's all legitimate criticism."

Concord Mills, owned by Simon Property Group, would not comment for this story, cited a policy against talking about tenant and landlord situations.

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Peeing on major pieces of history is rock'n'roll. Ask Ozzy!

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson risked the wrath of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin - he accidentally urinated on a Sputnik spacecraft in Moscow. The veteran rockers were invited to play a gig in the country after Yeltsin saw off a coup attempt by hardline members of the Communist Party in 1991.

Yeltsin promised young supporters he would stage a rock concert to show his appreciation for their support - but the event almost ended in disgrace when Johnson soiled a prized satellite in storage at the venue.

He says, "We were playing at this big airport in Moscow in Russia when the coup happened, and Yeltsin was on top of a tank and he promised the kids as a thanks for helping - 'What do you want?' And they said 'We want rock and roll, AC DC.' So we went over and there was a million people there, and they had 30,000 armed guards to look after them.

"It was getting dark then and I was bursting for a pee. I went outside and there was this concrete plinth and I'm standing there going [urinating]. And there were these two guards who were really upset. Then the translator came out [to explain] - I had just pissed on a Sputnik! It was just this black ball, I didn't realize what it was."

Denzel Washington, the only man that Chad 85 will listen to

It was one of those typically incestuous Tinseltown celebrity convergences, an impromptu conversation between an athlete who changed his name to enhance his fame and an actor who need only drop his first name to receive the red-carpet treatment.

Yet when Cincinnati Bengals wideout Chad Ochocinco met Denzel Washington at a Los Angeles Lakers game this past spring, it wasn’t the mutual fawning session you might expect. Rather than compliment the receiver formerly known as Johnson for his athletic excellence, Washington called him out, portraying Ochocinco’s lost 2008 season as a self-inflicted nightmare.

“He got on me about the way I handled myself last offseason,” Ochocinco recalled in a phone conversation last week. “He wasn’t being gentle. He said, ‘You know what? You need to straighten up and stop fussin’ about something you have no control over. Make it fun again because it sure looks better when you do it that way.’ That’s all I needed to hear, especially from somebody like him.”

Michael Vick -- Out of the doghouse

Michael Vick is back in the NFL. Now all he needs is a team to play for.

Vick, free after serving 18 months in prison for running a dogfighting ring, was reinstated with conditions by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday.

Vick can immediately take part in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and can play in the final two preseason games -- if he can find a team that will sign him. A number of teams have already said they would not.

Once the season begins, Vick may participate in all team activities except games, and Goodell said he would consider Vick for full reinstatement by Week 6 (Oct. 18-19) at the latest.

Katie Couric clicks her heels all over New York Times writer

Hank Aaron wants steroid users banned from the Hall

“My feeling has always been the same – the game of baseball has no place for cheaters,” Aaron said Sunday morning. “There’s no place in the Hall of Fame for people who cheat.”

He was speaking by phone from Cooperstown, where he was attending the Hall of Fame induction of Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice. Aaron has been to several of these ceremonies. But he probably hasn’t created this kind of news since his own enshrinement 27 years ago.

It started Saturday when he told a small group of reporters that he would be in favor of players from the steroid era going into the Hall with asterisks by their name, indicating their statistics might have been artificially enhanced. One excerpt: “Somewhere on the plaque or behind his name, say, ‘Hey, 73 home runs, da da da da, he was accused of …”

Aaron said his comments about asterisks pertained only to players suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs. But what of players who actually are proven to have taken drugs?

“That’s a different story,” he said. “If it’s proven that you took any kind of drug or substance, then you shouldn’t be there [in the Hall]. Like I said, the game has no place for cheaters.”

And then this: Aaron wants the list of 104 players who tested positive in baseball’s confidential drug tests in 2003 exposed. So far, two names have leaked out in media reports: Sammy Sosa and Alex Rodriguez.

Michael Jackson's got some very rational, level-headed fans..

And then there are these folks:

Michael Jackson fans have launched a campaign calling for the superstar to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The late star's fans have flocked to sign online petitions supporting the move. They say he should be honoured for his charity work and "lifelong dedication to the well being of humanity".

So far, more than 2,000 people have added their names to the campaign started by Los Angeles student Anneliese Nichole Brown. She hopes 100,000 will lend their support for the Thriller singer who died on June 25. A similar petition has been signed by 10,000 fans.

News of the campaign is spreading virally online on sites such as Twitter. However, nominations for the peace prize are not made according to public demand. Members of governments, professors, and former winners of the prize are among those who can suggest names. The campaign would need to win the support of someone eligible to nominate to get the musician's name in the running.

This woman will save our economy!

How's that smell, Billy Pierce?

DeWayne Wise saves Mark Buehrle's perfect game

The greatest hair-cut of them all

This is an act of pure jealousy

A South Florida town manager who married a porn star last year was fired at an emergency meeting after the mayor and council members learned about it.

Fort Myers Beach town council voted 5-0 to fire Scott Janke "without cause" after Mayor Larry Kiker called the Tuesday night meeting.

Kiker said he learned that afternoon that Janke's wife is an adult film star, and the elected officials took the action a few hours later.

"At no time did we make a judgment call on the activities of Mr. Janke or his wife," Kiker told The Associated Press. "It's a matter of how effective he becomes after this situation. How much disruption there is."

James Caan parties harder (and cooler) than anyone you know

Yes ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your monitors. This is 69 year old Hollywood legend James Caan (yes, THE James Caan of Sonny Corleone fame), leaving BOA in Los Angeles, looking like he is about to steal everyone’s women (just please avoid toll booths).

So remember people – when life has you down, when you feel like you’d rather be sitting alone at home on the couch eating ice cream than be out enjoying everything that life has to offer, look at this picture of a 69 year old man outside the club. It’s as if he was saying “Get off my red carpet, get off my lawn”.

We salute you James Caan!

Real TJ hates virtual TJ

The Seattle Seahawks' T.J. Houshmadzadeh, upset he's only rated the sixth-best receiver in his conference in the upcoming Madden 10, has vowed not to play the game no more.

Speaking to ESPN Radio bleatmeister Colin Cowherd yesterday, Houshmandzadeh took issue with his overall 91, acknowledged a relatively low yard-per-catch stat, and then threw his old team (Cincinnati) under the bus to justify this fit of pique - which is all too typical of NFL players primarily tasked with catching or deflecting forward passes.

"I understand I averaged 10 yards a catch, but it's the offense, not me. I'm not playing Madden no more until they get my rating right. ... I used to be the best in the world at Madden. I'm going to miss not playing it, but until they do me right, I' not playing it any more."

ESPN blogger Mike Sando points out that Houshmadzadeh was the sixth-best receiver in the NFC according to Madden 10, with scores of 95 or better in core skills such as catching, catch-in-traffic and route-running.

Big Ben's in Big Trouble

A hotel employee in Nevada has filed a civil suit accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault.

ProFootballTalk.com reports that Roethlisberger was served the suit over the weekend.

Roethlisberger faces one civil count of assault, one civil count of sexual assault and battery, one civil count of false imprisonment, one civil count of false pretenses, one civil count of fraud, and one civil count of intentonal infliction of emtional distress.

The employee, Andrea McNulty, alleges that Roethlisberger forced her to have sex with him in his hotel room in July 2008. According to PFT, it is unknown if McNulty attempted to file criminal charges.

David Cornwall, Roethlisberger's lawyer and a finalist for the position of NFLPA executive director, issued a statement to PFT in which he denied the charges.

"Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone; especially Andrea McNulty," Cornwell said.

It's worth the virus to see Erin Andrews nude

The voyeuristic inspiration that led to video of an unknowing Erin Andrews nude in a hotel room didn't stop users from searching for the clip. Some of those users, though, got bitten by a group of hackers who tricked thousands into downloading a virus they claimed was the video.

Taking advantage of what was a highly-searched topic over the weekend, many sites set up links advertising the video, even after ESPN, Andrews' employer, and her lawyer put forth a strong legal effort to get all traces of the real video taken offline with threats towards anyone who published it.

"Hackers are no slacks when it comes to taking advantage of a hot Internet search trend. And they have been quick to set up bogus Web pages claiming to contain the video footage of Ms. Andrews in her hotel room," Graham Cluley of the anti-virus software company Sophos told USA Today.

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The Colonel's secret is out!

A Long Island KFC devotee who ditched his Wall Street job in a quest to unravel the food court's best-kept secret believes he's finally figured out Colonel Sanders' 11 herbs and spices.

And now he's gotten a major book house to publish the recipe.

Ron Douglas spent years experimenting with different techniques in an attempt to reproduce KFC's Original Recipe.

At one point, he said, he grew so desperate that he tried to bribe a cook at the chain.

"[He] wouldn't tell me," Douglas said with a laugh.

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The economic way to die!

When Nathaniel Roe, 92, died at his 18th-century farmhouse here the morning of June 6, his family did not call a funeral home to handle the arrangements.

Instead, Mr. Roe’s children, like a growing number of people nationwide, decided to care for their father in death as they had in the last months of his life. They washed Mr. Roe’s body, dressed him in his favorite Harrods tweed jacket and red Brooks Brothers tie and laid him on a bed so family members could privately say their last goodbyes.

The next day, Mr. Roe was placed in a pine coffin made by his son, along with a tuft of wool from the sheep he once kept. He was buried on his farm in a grove off a walking path he traversed each day.

“It just seemed like the natural, loving way to do things,” said Jennifer Roe-Ward, Mr. Roe’s granddaughter. “It let him have his dignity.”

Advocates say the number of home funerals, where everything from caring for the dead to the visiting hours to the building of the coffin is done at home, has soared in the last five years, putting the funerals “where home births were 30 years ago,” according to Chuck Lakin, a home funeral proponent and coffin builder in Waterville, Me.

Ever get your ass kicked by a 70+ year old astronaut?

This is how beer should be poured

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The Fattest Ballplayers of All-Time

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Michael Jackson at Roof A Thon?

Kricket claims to see Micheal Jackson on the wet foggy windows of the Roof A Thon Deck. Can you see it?

A tribute to the most amazing sideline reporter alive

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Bruno + Matt Lauer = Love

Michelle is going to be so pissed..

Optimus Prime guests on Letterman

Corey Feldman's tribute to Michael's fashion... at his memorial

In tribute to our Blues Brothers/Animal House conversation this morning..

A classic picture of friends' and coworkers' respect for one another

Geraldo's calling out the celebrities at MJ's funeral?

"The vast majority of the people in that hall," Geraldo said, "and certainly ninety nine percent of the celebrities who have come to this memorial did not stand anywhere near Michael Jackson during the years he was accused of those horrible crimes, and they didn't say, 'We believe him innocent, they didn't say let the case go where it may, let the facts prove innocence or guilt.' They just disappeared, and now they have resurfaced to celebrate his life.

"That is entirely fitting I'm sure," Geraldo said, "but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime."

Big Fan trailer!

The writer of The Wrestler's next project is about an obsessed New York Giants fan, played by Patton Oswalt. Here's the trailer!:

People pretending to get hurt for 3 minutes is always funny

Poor guy just wanted to grieve on TV!

Reverend Al is back (shocking!)

Reverend Al Sharpton is using his Sunday appearance at The First A.M.E. Church in South Los Angeles to call for a U.S. Postage stamp honoring Michael Jackson, as well as national day of mourning.

Sharpton faces a steep challenge in getting the stamp approved, as commemorative stamps cannot even be considered until 5 years after the subject's death, according to the U.S. Postal Service.

The only exception to the rule is for deceased U.S. Presidents, who have traditionally been honored with a stamp released on their birthdays, following date of death.

Releasing a commemorative stamp could be a financial boon for the Postal Service as Michael Jackson memorabilia has reportedly been selling in high volumes and in some cases for significantly higher prices after the music icon's passing.

The 1993 commemorative stamp for Elvis Presley became the best-selling U.S. stamp to date with 124.1 million stamps sold, according to figures released by the USPS. Many of the units sold were reportedly kept as souvenirs, rather than used as postage.

R.I.P. Steve McNair

Shot twice in the head and two more times in the chest, former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was the victim of a homicide, police declared Sunday. But authorities wouldn't say it was a murder-suicide — even with his 20-year-old girlfriend dead at his feet from a single bullet.

McNair had been dating Saleh Kazemi for several months, and Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said Sunday that a semiautomatic pistol was found under her body. She was shot in the head.

McNair, who was married with four sons, had a permit to carry a handgun in Tennessee, and he was arrested once before with a 9mm weapon although charges in the case were dropped. Police said they had not yet determined who owned the gun found at the scene.

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A look inside the Neverland Ranch..

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This video is what friendship is all about

Italian Olympic swimmer Flavia Zoccari was forced to sit out a championship race at the Mediterranean Games yesterday after her bathing costume burst open in a very unfortunate place.

Flavia, 22, was wearing the controversial £318 top-of-the-line Jaked J01 swimsuit when disaster struck at the Games in Pescara, Italy.

Jaked boasts that the full-body swimsuit - complete with back hinge - is 'more than skin'.

However the aerodynamic costume has been the subject of controversy after it was banned by FINA (the International Swimming Federation) earlier this year because it gave swimmers wearing it an unfair advantage. FINA lifted the ban on the swimsuit a month later, in June of this year, after Jaked, which sponsors the Italian national swim team, protested the ban.

BACON DRESS

“I chose salami because it’s thin, keeps in one piece, and is quite cheap, and bacon because it looks very, um, meaty. I considered somehow vacuum-sealing sheets of meat with those sealers they have on the markets now, but the machines were too expensive for a one-time-only disposeable dress. I ended up using the K.I.S.S. method of construction, which involved a basic shift dress out of thick cotton. I layed the meat on top, then put clear vinyl over it and sewed tracks with clear thread. I used a wide stitch length to avoid perforating the meat to the point it might just… uh, slide down the bottom of the dress. I also blotted it all before sewing to get rid of as much grease as possible to avoid clouding the vinyl. Lastly, I made sure to bind the bottom of the dress with a strip of clear vinyl to catch drips. (I love talking about this; it’s so disgusting.) The whole project took about 6 hours, and I kept it refrigerated until the party. Good times.”

The Top 10 Single Celebrities (That You'll Probably Never Date)

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It's crazy how this is both amazing and horrible at the same time

Apparently this monkey doesn't like his policies

What ever happened to Bubbles?

Many have been asking - where is Michael Jackson's beloved chimp Bubbles? Turns out he's in Wauchula at a place called "The Center for Great Apes."

The center's website explains, "Bubbles was born in a biomedical laboratory, but taken from his mother and sold to a Hollywood trainer while still an infant. He was purchased for Michael Jackson and soon gained fame as Jackson's pet chimpanzee. "

Patti Ragan, Director of the Center for Great Apes, issued the following statement in response to the numerous inquiries regarding Bubbles:

Bubbles, the chimpanzee formerly owned by Michael Jackson, has been cared for by the Center for Great Apes (CGA), a sanctuary for chimpanzees and orangutans in need of lifetime care, since 2005.

When Bubbles became too large to be handled by Jackson, he lived his earlier years at the California compound of Bob Dunn, Michael Jackson's animal trainer.

Wlecome to Flordia

Workers were a little red-faced after painters misspelled the word "school" on the ground in front of Goulds Elementary in Miami-Dade County, Fla. Even young students pointed out that "scohol" doesn't make any sense.

"They should go back to school," said student Keon Brooks.

"They really need the education because if they can't get to spelling school right, what you think it's going to benefit for the kids when they're laying all these teachers off?" said parent Quantisha Henley.

"They're trying to cut down on education but they need more," said another parent.

This error coming on the heels of a recent announcement that nearly 400 teachers will be getting pink slips. School board officials hope to give many of them their jobs back once federal stimulus money becomes available.

A spokesman for Miami-Dade Public Works said the painters used semi-permanent paint, and ended up repairing the mistake last week.