Apparently retirement communities are fertile breeding grounds for mean old bullies, if this article out of Arizona is to be believed. Cliques of seniors (nothing ever changes, huh?) are mercilessly shunning and taunting old people who aren't cool.

China's beef with the Nobel Committee over its selection of dissident Liu Xiaobo for this year's Peace Prize has turned comical, with the government creating its own "Confucius Peace Prize," which will go to Taiwan's former VP this week.

Vitaly Borker, the owner of decormyeyes.com, has hit on an ingenious method to market his Internet eyeglasses business: Bully customers into leaving negative reviews on watchdog websites, then watch your rank in Google searches rise!

Susan Boyle went on Oprah to promote her memoir and got to talking about bullies. She had a Scottish "they were rascals" (hear Craig Ferguson saying that) stance, but Oprah, maniacal as ever, suggested a revenge. Find out what here:

Blogger and face scribbler Perez Hilton is taking to Ellen DeGeneres, YouTube, and Out magazine today to say that he's not going to bully celebrities on his website from now on. Is he serious or is this a PR stunt?

There may be a YouTube campaign telling gay teens their lives will improve, but here's a funny video made by a "former bully." It seems that being a homophobic jerk isn't cool when you're older. Just ask Carl Paladino!

Chris Armstrong, the openly gay University of Michigan student body president who was systematically harassed by a Michigan assistant attorney general, was on CNN last night to denounce bullying. Watch his interview and his attacker try to defend his position.

Ultra-conservative Christian mega business ministry Focus on the Family wants all these gay people to stop talking about child bullying, because they're pushing a secret agenda to turn America's kids into homosexuals, and that is not what Jesus intended.

On a very special episode of Louie, Louis CK looked at the human attraction to violence and intimidation. After asking a group of unruly teenagers to quiet down, Louis gets into a confrontation that ruins his evening.

In a candid interview with Slate, Phoebe Prince's father is surprisingly compassionate towards her daughter's bullies. On Today, correspondents rehash the story of Phoebe Prince's suicide and the potential effects that her father's recent interview could have.

This morning, The Today Show ran a segment about internet trolls who descend on the families of dead teens. It's unpleasant stuff; the full segment inside.

Here's MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan behaving like your high-school gym coach this morning when his guest Mark McKinnon tried to talk about something that wasn't marked down on Ratigan's clipboard as an approved topic of conversation.

CityFile just published a groveling retraction of an item it published in July in the face of a defamation suit from Jim Dolan, the truculent chairman of Cablevision, which owns Newsday.

Why does Jonathan Capehart let people treat him this way? The dashing Washington Post editorial writer wore Prada pants to MSNBC today and it was the funniest thing Joe Scarborough had ever seen.

Times internet family columnist Judith Warner has determined that when kids call other kids "gay" or "fag" they are actually enforcing outdated codes of masculinity, not actually accusing that kid of being a homosexual.

This is certainly a scary time in America, what with the racist McCain/Palin fans and a liberal response that is still cringing and frightened to offend no matter what crazy shit the Wingers spew. But America has had scary times before—times when racists and rednecks and bullies and other pieces of shit went all out to stop the spread of progress and new ideas and common decency. And we have always stuck it to the man, at least in movies and TV. My opener after the jump.

Are you being bullied at work? Who cares, as long as a media outlet can make a good listicle out of it! Forbes assembled an illustrated list of the "10 Signs You're Being Bullied At Work." It features a bunch of stock photos of people striking typical poses in typical office work environments (pictured). "We can condense and improve on that crap!" we thought, immediately sensing the opportunity to simultaneously rip off Forbes' idea and mock it in a shady philosophical tightrope act. Below, our photo-illustrated guide to the top five ways to know if you're being bullied at work. Because these days, the most bullied people don't work in offices, anyhow.

Until we saw this clip from Larry King Live last night, we honestly had no clue how hard Johnny Carson made things for our secretly favorite Dancing with the Stars contestant, Wayne Newton, who couldn't pull on a single, sequined polyester outfit and launch into song in a Las Vegas floorshow without having the late night despot crack some crass joke questioning his sexuality. (And later, he claims, finagling him a spot on a Mafia's Most Wanted hit list.)

Post honcho Col Allan knows what you are typing at your desks. He knows what you are emailing. In his mind, he is already screaming at you. And then there's this: