Benjamin Hooks, who became the head of the NAACP in 1977 and spent 15 years adding hundreds of thousands of members to the flagging civil rights group, has died at the age of 85.

Whoa, hey, don't hog all the heroism, 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning former photographer and current assistant professor of new media at San Jose State University Kim Komenich! You can win a Pulitzer, but to stop a bank robbery, too? Whoa, hey!

Enraged by an annoying New York Times piece about a blogger bar and encouraged by our take down of Foursquare general hero Matt Langer created NoSquares a service that helps you to avoid venues overrun by Foursquare users. You're welcome.

New York's pizza guys: These are some guys to have on your side during the inevitable Peak Oil apocalypse. Proof: On Friday, a delivery guy for Famous Famiglia in East Harlem avoided armed robbery and delivered his pie still-piping.

The New York Times today pounds out a love letter to New Yorker editor David Remnick—a fairly regular occurrence. To summarize: David Remnick is a journalist with no flaws. Really? Well. As close as you'll find at Conde Nast.

Patricia Edwards walked into a Sanford, FL Bank of America branch last week and robbed it—because, she later explained, "it was something I had on my ‘bucket list.'" Patricia has leukemia, but it's not terminal. She's just terminally awesome.

Somebody yelled "Baby Killer" at pro-life Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak while he spoke against the anti-abortion amendment he proposed to the health care bill. Now the world wonders: Who is this heroic Baby Killer Guy? Update: It was a Texan!

Jay-Z is a pretty good rapper. Jay-Z is not the best rapper ever. Jay-Z is not a role model. Jay-Z is not a hip hop hero. Not even for you, cool kids. Get off Jay-Z's dick.

Philly hero Arthur Kade was at the Black Eyed Peas show and the security guard totally left him hanging. Caught on tape! Kade would never do that to you, bro. That guard must have totally missed the Arthur Kade documentary.

According to his new memoir, a 9-year-old Rove affixed a Nixon sticker to his bicycle, prompting a leftist girl child to give him a bloody nose. We must find this girl and make her into a folk hero.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, 59, who successfully landed a plane in the Hudson, is hanging up his pilot's wings. Guess you don't need a paycheck when you have all that book money and a movie contract!

The delightful but sadly incredibly corrupt Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel announced a 9 a.m. press conference. A couple minutes before 9, he went before cameras to announce that he'll "temporarily" stop being the chair of the Ways and Means Committee.

While all you "Gen Poppers" were sleepwalking through your bland lives, Arthur Kade—our favorite thespian, author and vagina ponderer—was making his mainstream television debut!

"Breaking," ha: be-hair-gelled governing robot Mitt Romney was totally attacked by a fellow patriotic American whilst in flight! Romney did not get all fucked up—or did he(??). What we know at this point:

Big news for fans of Kansho Tagai, a.k.a. Mr. Happiness, Japan's most famous 49 year-old rappin' Buddhist monk: He's ready to move into a new medium—"mixing Buddhist chants with tap-dancing." Is the Buddhist hip hop audience ready? [Reuters]

Peggy Wilkins is an average heterosexual 45 year-old Chicago woman who had to rent an entire apartment above her own to hold her massive, encyclopedic Playboy collection. Gurl U no U always B our friend. [Chicago Reader via Romenesko]

Elderly dog-worshiping soothsayer and NY Post columnist Cindy Adams is relevant once again! Really though. Not only is she a hero to young journalists everywhere, she's a hero to us today, for mocking the Hollywood-industrial entitlement complex with admirable passion!

Shepard Smith, America's best newsman, had one of the finest broadcasts of storied career today on Studio B. There was a puppy, stuck in the LA river. It was rescued by a helicopter. Shepard Smith talked America through it.

I'm madder than Ted Kennedy's ghost in Mormon Heaven that no one told me about Ed Anger's Twitter feed! (Also, the man who basically invented modern political discourse has a new website.)

Please sit down for this. Seriously, just do it. Actually, no, stand up. You will probably need to run away in terror. Because the combination of this kid's sword, his sweatpants, and his awesome mullet, will probably kill you.