Peter Thiel, so-called visionary, is working CNBC hard at Davos. Why would that be the case? His hedge fund is $5 billion smaller than it was six months ago.

The American Idol taco truck pulled into Jacksonville last night, where aspirant Darren Darnell—a radioactive people person with a seemingly bottomless bag of party tricks—nominated himself holding tank spirit-squad leader.

Like the Richard Nixon groupie he is, Rod Blagojevich quickly broke his promise to Rachel Maddow to become the "anti-Nixon." Instead he broke court rules and dodged questions, on national television.

It's no wonder this unreleased "Speedfit" workout video was banned from YouTube: It's as embarrassing as rumored and contains an incriminating recording of her business manager to boot.

Tough as it is to believe, recent leopardskin-belt double-cinching victim Jessica Simpson was once the star of her own weight-loss video.

Donny Osmond made the bombshell announcement on Bonnie Hunt today that he was "seriously considering" joining the cast of Dancing with the Stars. (We'll pause now for the requisite screaming, self-fanning, smelling salts, etc.).

A Fox News anchor finds the words "Top Cop" so difficult to read off the teleprompter he finally just gives up and says "ah, whatever." It's not the first time this has happened!

Via Videogum, we bring you a sneak preview of Jon Hamm's "multi-episode arc" on 30 Rock, playing Liz Lemon's ice-cream-making, frosting-smeared pediatrician neighbor and crush object. (He debuts the episode after next.)

Yesterday a brave Martha Stewart Living employee brought the company's prison-like office decor to our attention. (No personal photos!) And now, hilariously, Martha is so upset about this that she's talking and talking about it!

This morning the embattled Illinois governor decided to hit up Good Morning America and The View instead of, like, hanging out in Springfield where his impeachment trial is beginning.

Now that American Muslims have been thoroughly demonized in the last presidential election, Pope Benedict XVI seems keen to open another religious rift, between Catholics and Jews.

The ashamed, secret straight male audience for cats, meanwhile, appreciate "shots of attractive women, with their pets nestled near or within cleavage," as LA Weekly put it in a profile of Chris Leavins, the man behind the Web show and blog Cute With Chris, which offers all of the above.

During the campaign, Barack Obama presented himself as the sunny heir to Ronald Reagan's style of optimistic Americana. But this series of clips tells a different story. This is Obama when he gets angry.

Here's what you saw if you were watching Rod Blagojevich's press conference on one of the channels where they weren't interrupting him. It's an amazing defense of... cattle rustling?

It's Friday, it's pouring, and all you want to do is to relax and pamper yourself with some softcore Angela Lansbury videos. Are we right? Of course we are.

Who's the newest Six Sigma expert? Tina Fey. The cultish quality process observed by her employer, NBC Universal, is a predictable source of profitable laughs for her show, 30 Rock and all too real.

The Lafayette French Pastry bakery in the Village is super trendy. Their cakes were used on Sex and the City! And, like every other trendo, they're showing Obama some love. With, um, "Drunken Negro Head" cookies.

It took all of two working days for the Obama Administration's relationship with the media to get testy. The president shouldn't seem so surprised.

Trend alert: Did you know it's very "hot" to be black or lesbian right now? We know it's true because CNN coolhunter Larry King, 112, said so. Everyone laughed nervously.

Wow, the intoxication fatigue of the inauguration really wears reporters down to babbling idiots. Witness this wacky error reel from a single episode of Anderson Cooper's show yesterday! Amazing. Red Bull gives you wings, AC.