At a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing held today to conduct Drug Enforcement Administration oversight, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) — a major proponent of marijuana legalization — tried for several minutes to get an answer from DEA administrator Michele Leonhart on the relative severity of marijuana compared to other Schedule I narcotics.

ABC may have been allowed to debut its Big Brother-esque reality show The Glass House this week, but CBS isn't quite finished making its displeasure known.

In an apparent bid to drum up some publicity for his new book, comedian Adam Carolla decided to court controversy by exhuming the hackneyed "women aren't funny" canard in a New York Post interview.

We've heard several conflicting reports about the bar brawl that erupted between Drake and Chris Brown. Now a third hip-hop star has entered the conversation to offer his perspective about the night in question.

Ronan Farrow hasn't spoken with his father, filmmaker Woody Allen, since the latter left the former's mother, Mia Farrow, for Soon-Yi Previn — Farrow's adopted daughter.

Looks like Australian Hollie C. and basketball player Tony Parker weren't the only innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire between Chris Brown and Drake during their recent bar brawl. Two new victims have come forward claiming they were injured in the fight.

Details of the bar brawl between Chris Brown and Drake are still hazy. While initial reports said that Drake was leaving the club when the actual fighting started, the New York Daily News' sources claim the NYPD is focusing on Drake as the instigator.

Stitches were reportedly needed last night after someone in Drake's camp — possibly Drizzy himself — busted a bottle over Chris Brown's chin during a dust up between the two, allegedly over Rihanna.

To coincide with the release of Oceania — the upcoming studio album from the latest iteration of the Smashing Pumpkins (now featuring the girl from the cover of Siamese Dream!) — frontman Billy Corgan decided to drum up some publicity by picking a fight with Radiohead.

It's a well-established fact that there is negative love lost between Matthew Inman, creator of popular webcomic The Oatmeal, and the social aggregation site FunnyJunk.

Concert previews in local papers generally consist of boilerplate platitudes and matter-of-fact specifics about the show in question.

Miss Pennsylvania USA 2012 Sheena Monnin resigned her role in an angry Facebook post that accused the Miss USA pageant officials of fixing the contest and having the finalists all picked out prior to the show's airing.

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Despite agreeing to discuss a specific set of topics beforehand, Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney attempted to derail a conversation about Mitt Romney's response to his "youthful indiscretion" by calling NewsNation host Tamron Hall's question a "typical media trick."

Jersey Shore's resident tanning aficionado Snooki has called out "Tan Mom" Patricia Krentcil for allegedly taking her daughter to a tanning salon.

Rock's answer to Eeyore, Magnetic Fields brainchild Stephin Merritt, was once accused of being racist for his professed love of the song "Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah" (from Song of the South, the insanely minstrely black sheep of the Disney catalog) and for not seeming too into black music. Well, two can play that game, as Merritt has called out Adele's legion of fans for some bigotry of their own in an interview with Dan Weiss for L.A. Weekly. Here's how it goes down:

As current beef goes, this one is almost as lame as The Weeknd saying that The-Dream looks like the Hamburglar on Twitter, but public name-calling is public name-calling, and so we will share this particularly stupid incident with you: Piers Morgan, CNN's premier ruddy-faced gasbag, is still really pissed at Kate Moss.

Beef: It's What's For Dinner—Provided You Can Afford Its Record Price These Days. That is the slogan that Big Beef doesn't want you hearing. But facts are facts, folks: "Retail beef prices, now near record levels, will likely rise 4% to 5% this year following a 10% increase in 2011."

After all of the trash talking and "cucumber slurs" between Germany and Spain over where the deadly "mutant" E. coli outbreak originated, we may finally have the culprit: sprouts from a farm in Uelzen, Germany. Samples from the farm are being tested now. A German agriculture official told the BBC that "a connection has been found involving all the main outbreaks" and the farm in Uelzen. Uh, sorry Spanish cucumber farmers!

South Korean soldiers have been ordered to stop using pictures of Kim Jong-il, his daddy Kim Il-sung, and cherublike son Kim Jong-un for target practice after images of the targets surfaced in newspapers there this week. That should really help to restore normal relations between the two countries.