Steven Slater—the JetBlue flight attendant who walked off the job via inflatable slide and was arrested by the cops yesterday mid-embrace with his boyfriend—is a free man tonight after coming up with his $2,500 bail.

Thursday was International Beer Day! Did you raise a glass of beer to former president Jimmy Carter? You should have: Carter's actions as president helped start the brewing renaissance that helps keep your local stocked with delicious craft beers.

Occasionally, New York City's King, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, takes stands that aren't the easiest, politically. Now that Cordoba House—the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque"—will be constructed, let's give the man major credit for his rigorous defense.

Aleksei Dymovsky was an average 32 year-old cop in Novorossiysk, Russia. Sick of the endemic corruption on the police force, he sat down and made a simple Youtube video of himself talking about the problem. How'd that work out?

Here's the new hot 'n' sexy 36-year-old senator from West Virginia, Carte Goodwin, getting the ol' "swear-in and back slap" from Joe Biden. And immediately afterward, Goodwin broke a Republican filibuster over extending unemployment benefits! When can he be president?

The new financial reform bill will create a consumer protection agency, the brainchild of professor and TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren, Washington's toughest regulatory voice. She should obviously be its first director! But what if she's "too tough" on banks?

Paul Nigel Sneddon of Palmerston North, New Zealand, flipped his car. Police found him drinking a beer, his BAC already three times the legal limit. Said his lawyer, "he had nothing else to... so he had another beer." [Reuters]

Sometimes it's nice to put down the chalice, for once, and realize that Bob Marley was not the second coming of Jesus, or a hippie, for Chrissake. He was a flawed man! A new biography tells us just how flawed.

56-year-old Chinese farmer Yang Youde got tired of commercial property developers lowballing him and trying to demolish his home, so he built and fired some rockets at them. The short-range rockets held off an onslaught of 100 people.

Assume the position of enthusiastic worship, New Yorkers—we have a new Subway Hero! An unidentified one, at that. Does he live up the heroism of the original subway hero, and the actor subway hero? Yes he does, very heroic!

Philly fameball Arthur Kade is the self-proclaimed "White Oprah With Balls." Give him some props for that. And for the graphic you see here, which he made himself. Okay. So, how does White Oprah With Balls rate Lost's finale?

Look at this guy take a car crash to the knees while still holding his baby, who proceeds to flip out after it is over. It's jarring, yes, but someone should tell that baby to be a little more grateful.

No fewer than three street vendors have claimed credit for helping to prevent the Times Square bombing by alerting police of Faisal Shahzad's smoking SUV. Now the New York Times reports they are fighting amongst themselves. Who's winning?

When US Air Flight 1549 hit some birds and lost power nigh upon 15 months ago, hero captain Sully Sullenberger heroically landed in the Hudson River, saving all aboard. One minor quibble: he could have landed safely at the airport.

Yay Virginia! They love the Confederacy, and hate boobs. Well, they love boobs, just not official boobs. The state's easily grossed-out attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, recently covered up a boob on the state seal in the name of "virtue."

A kink emerges in the tidy "hero vendor" storyline of yesterday's Times Square bomb incident. Three different people are being reported as the eagle-eyed vendor who notified police about the smoking SUV and saved thousands of tourists from being exploded.

Lance Orton: Our hero! He is the Vietnam vet and T-shirt vendor who saved Times Square by noticing that there was a bomb inside of an SUV and notifying police. But why won't he love us like we love him?

Worry not, hispanic-looking people of Arizona. Your lawmakers may have passed a law that forces police to stop you and demand your papers. But Linda Ronstadt, Ricky Martin and Shakira are on your side. [AP]

Dorothy Height, who spent 40 years as president of the National Council for Negro Women, died this morning at the age of 98. She "was arguably the most influential woman at the top levels of civil rights leadership." [WP]

It's a well-established fact that hero boat captain Richard Phillips is a hero, for getting kidnapped by Somali pirates. But his ungrateful crew members are still hating on him for publishing a heroic book, about his heroism. Why, haters?