Today: Rufus Wainwright has a few Catholics angry, Al Gore is steppin' out, and Elin Nordegren is looking for love.
For 24 hours, people cared so much about a mean thing Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney that more people searched for "Ann Romney" on Twitter than "Justin Bieber," the tween Twitter god. This fake outrage -- the "Umbrage Wars"! -- is a terrible thing, according to lots of hand-winging reporters. They're wrong.
The former Vice President comes out against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Senior officials at the State Department cheered the company's quest for approval
The Apple board member let slip the new phones were coming next month
The vice president gives Uygur his own 7 p.m. week night show on Current TV
What did the president expect?
Oh, how the Internet loves a good gaffe!
The former vice president takes on the Obama in a Rolling Stone essay
The deposed MSNBC host's debut on Current was awfully familiar
One kind word from Barbra Streisand and he'll have a GOP bogeyman trifecta
Revelations in a new interview: he doesn't talk to Rachel Maddow, bad-mouthed Jeff Zucker
The former vice president is furious that News Corp. dropped Current TV in Italy
Data featured in Al Gore's film turns out to be more complicated than simple graphs
The new 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' will premiere on Current TV on June 20
The representative's visual aids look strikingly familiar
It took him some time, but he's finally found the ideal project at Random House
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