Pop star/Dr. Teeth impersonator Ke$ha has a reality show on MTV called My Crazy Beautiful Life. It is not beautiful, nor is it particularly crazy in the scheme of reality TV, but I do find her sexual frankness to be radical for a woman in her field.

While female sexuality in pop has been pronounced for decades, it has translated to the real lives and/or personas of its sources in vaguely fictive terms (see Lil' Kim), in serial monogamy (see Madonna) or with qualification (Pink, whose most recent album features the song "Slut Like You," explained to Glamour that she's in fact a "reformed slut"). Ke$ha, who snarls lyrics like, "Don't be a little bitch with your chit chat Just show me where your dick's at," and writes songs about her vagina ("Wham bam, thank you, man / Get inside my fucking gold Trans-Am") is, at a minimum, committed to giving the illusion that she lives as she sings/whine-raps. Though given the continued cultural disdain for female promiscuity and her rock-star status, there's good reason to believe that she's harvesting all the dick that she brags about.

She spent the bulk of last night's episode of My Crazy Beautiful Life attempting to get laid, and when she finally did, it was with a nameless dude whose beard she fetishized. Afterwards, she mocked his spooning preference (or is it an orientation?). She recently told Jimmy Kimmel that instead of having a boyfriend, "I just have, like, boys around the world." Ke$ha doesn't always own her persona and she's self-consciously brash for the sake of it, it seems (she told Conan O'Brien, "I’m, like, a wild person"). But her shamelessness and commitment to being a slut, no reform necessary, is bold and, from where I'm sitting, admirable.

Lil Wayne, who was hospitalized after suffering a series of seizures in March, was back in the hospital last night and early this morning when he had yet another seizure.

The 30-year-old rapper, who has since been released from Cedars-Sinai, revealed after his last episode that he suffers from epilepsy, but rampant speculation says it's unlikely his known fondness for sizzurp does anything to help his condition.

[Image via AP]

After writing about TV for years, Brian Stelter's book, Top of The Morning, has hit stores. And the New York Times reporter is here to answer your questions! In the comments below, ask about the Today show, GMA, Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, GMA, Robin Roberts, Charlie Rose, or that lovable rascal Kathie Lee.

Facebook has rejected an ad criticizing FWD.us, Mark Zuckerberg's creepy political group, because it used Zuckerberg's face.

HBO has renewed Veep for a third season. This is wonderful news! Created by curse-generating genius Armando Iannucci, Veep follows Vice President Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and her bumbling staff, helmed by Anna Chlumsky, as they narrowly avoid an endless onslaught of political catastrophes.

We Regret The Error is a monthly feature in which we compile TV news mistakes and the subsequent boilerplate apologies. Here's everything we could find from the month of April.

April was not the strongest month in history for broadcast journalism. For sure, heroes like Pete Williams at NBC rose up to deliver quality, quick news during the Boston bombing investigation, but most coverage from the marathon attack was a shitshow. All those blunders took the focus away from everyday TV news mistakes like misidentifying what kind of porn a teacher is accused of watching or, several times, identifying innocent people as criminals.

(Let's not forget A.J. Clemente's brush with history.)

We're going to do this every month, and we hope you can let us know when these sorts of things happen on your local news by sending us a quick tip.

Sometimes a slideshow of 10 giant cocks is just a slideshow of 10 giant cocks.

On Tuesday night, America's cinnamon challenge Lindsay Lohan Instagrammed a picture of herself hard(ish) at work, packing for her upcoming court-ordered 90-day stint in rehab. Lohan captioned the photo, which finds her surrounded by duffel bags, suitcases, and what appears to be a toy chest stuffed with clothes ,"90 days and 270 looks," before locking down her account.

Lohan is set to begin her strut down the catwalk to recovery Thursday, May 2 at the Seafield Center in Westhampton. TMZ reports that the actress might be looking to switch last minute to a California facility because the New York one won't let her smoke, but, if all else fails, she can just smoke at the New York one anyway because rules are optional — society's version of the specials a waiter reads you before your meal.

On a brighter note, 270 outfits for 90 days works out to 3 per diem, so it looks like she's planning on eating breakfast.

New year (1/4 over), new you, Lindsay.

[Instagram // TMZ]

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Hiring "controversial" rappers to be your brand ambassadors can be a blessing and a curse. Mountain Dew, the extreme corn-syrup beverage, is learning a peculiar fact about these spokespeople: They tend to generate controversy.

Their personal brand profiles, which make them so exciting and relevant to the kids, tend to offend non-kids, often in ways fraught with racial tension and unproductive for the reputation of your product.

So after giving Tyler, the Creator—the rowdy and enthusiastically offensive frontman of Odd Future—the opportunity to create commercials, Mountain Dew has been forced to pull one of the resulting ads and apologize. In the clip (below), a battered and fearful white woman is trying to pick her assailant out of a police lineup of five black men and one goat. The joke is that the goat appears to be the actual guilty party, but enough people found the humor lacking that Mountain Dew decided to kill the spot, saying "it understood how the ad could be offensive," according to the Associated Press.

Unfortunately, the cowering white woman vs. black men and goat was only half of Mountain Dew's image-management problems today. Its recently hospitalized spokesperson Lil Wayne issued an apology for the verse he'd contributed in February to the Future song "Karate Chop (Remix)," in which he said that he would "beat the pussy up like Emmett Till."

Till, of course, was the 14-year-old boy tortured and killed by white supremacists in Mississippi in 1955. Equating his treatment to rough sex managed to be offensive in both directions, and Till's surviving relatives, through their attorneys, had pressed for Mountain Dew to drop Wayne's endorsement deal.

"As a father myself, I cannot imagine the pain that your family has had to endure," Wayne wrote in a statement. "Moving forward, I will not use or reference Emmett Till or the Till family in my music, especially in an inappropriate manner."

There's no word yet on whether Wayne's mea culpa will be too little too late for Mountain Dew, but these incidents, not to mention Rick Ross' recent date-rape dustup at Reebok, will no doubt be on the minds of corporations considering hiring rappers in the future. Sometimes when you hire performers who give the middle finger to authority and political niceties, you get performers who give the middle finger to authority and political niceties.

Update: Odd Future's manager, Christian Clancey, has released a statement via Tumblr to respond to the Mountain Dew commercial drama. An excerpt is below:

It was never Tyler's intention to offend however, offense is personal and valid to anyone who is offended. Out of respect to those that were offended and the ad was taken down. For those who know and respect Tyler he is known for pushing boundaries and challenging stereotypes thru humor. This is someone who grew up on David Chappelle. This situation is layered with context and is a discussion that Tyler would love to address in the right forum as he does have a point of view. As someone who hasn’t had the experience of being discriminated against I choose to respect the opinion of those who have... what I can speak to is Tyler who represents much more than the current narrative this story suggests. Contrary to what many may discern from this Tyler is the embodiment of not judging others, his delivery may not be for everyone (which is true for anyone who pushes boundaries) but his voice is nonetheless important to the conversation since his demographic understands what he ultimately stands for and sees the irony of it all.

When Newtown (CT) police officers responded to a State Police tip about suspicious activity at a rundown property in Sandy Hook they found the back door had been broken down.

Oh, and someone had been storing up to 300 one-gallon plastic jugs filled with urine inside the house.

For perspective's sake, The Danbury News-Times notes that the average person "produces about six cups of urine a day."

After sending a sample of the "brown liquid" to a drug lab, authorities determined that the substance was regular human urine and concluded that no criminal activity was taking place at the vacant residence.

The homeowner, whose name has not been released, has since been contacted, but no explanation has been given for his bizarre collection.

An environmental cleanup crew was dispatched to help local and state officials dispose of the jugs.

The house itself, which is in extremely bad shape, will need to be demolished if the owner is unwilling or unable to pay for repairs.

As for the urine, it is now the property of a nearby sewage-treatment plant.

[screengrab via News-Times]

Do you want to make $600 cash by Tuesday? Then get to work on this rich guy's "Masters Level History" papers. We are not talking about a cut-and-paste from Wikipedia here, this guy is a legitimate grad student who needs to learn about World War II by having you write his well-sourced academic papers. "I've done this type of thing before," he writes, "so I am comfortable and experienced with it." What could go wrong?

ALL THREE PAPERS ARE DUE NEXT TUESDAY, MAY 7th.

Paper 2) "Thesis"/Research/Review paper on any World War II related specific topic or person. For example: The Versailles Treaty? Discuss and explain a certain battle or invasion and how it happened and why it was important? Discuss and explain a certain individual and how they affected WWII and why they were important, (NOT a "bio" of the person though). Your choices are broad and wide open. (((15 pages, minimum. Must use at least 5 legitimate scholarly sources, books, articles, etc....NOT "Wikipedia")......must have accurate and complete bibliography page, proper in paper citations... APA format)))

He could be halfway done writing his own papers after all this hyper-anal cheating logistics, couldn't he?

Paper 3) "Thesis"/Research/Review discussing any specific topic or person from "Pre-Contact" American history up to and just before the Civil War. So, basically....you can do an in-depth exploration of any American History related topic from before the 1630's (American Indians, Jamestown, etc.) up through the Colonial Period to the Revolutionary American period to basically any topic to before 1830. (((10 pages, minimum. Also must use at least 5 legitimate scholarly sources, books, articles, etc., NOT "Wikipedia").... must have accurate and complete bibliography page, proper in paper citations....APA format)))

Jamestown? So we could just write 10 pages about the Jamestown settlers eating the brains of this poor teenaged girl. There are several scholarly sources, such as "The Smithsonian" and "Gawker." The only thing is that this guy might be a serial killer or something, so don't meet him alone. Bring some costumed employees with those buckles on their hats from Colonial Williamsburg.

[Via @SCGUBERS; photo via Shutterstock.]

How does multi-platform conflict-machine Howard Kurtz crank out so much coverage, people wonder? Maybe it's easier to write a lot of media criticism if you don't read the media you're criticizing. So today Kurtz finds—for two different outlets—a dark shadow in the sunny coverage of NBA player Jason Collins' decision to come out as gay: Collins was at one point engaged to a woman.

"He didn't tell the whole story," Kurtz burbles in a Daily Download video.

Kurtz continues: "If you leave out the fact that you dated this woman for eight years and that you were engaged to be married, then you have not told the whole story and I think this really muddies the whole plotline."

Kurtz wrote the same argument for the Daily Beast, that Collins "left one little part out."

Except Collins didn't leave the detail out. It's right at the beginning of the eighth paragraph of his long Sports Illustrated piece:

When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged.

Now, without any correction or explanation, Kurtz's Daily Beast item has been revised to say that Collins "downplayed one detail," which is still untrue. Update: The item now features a correction: "An earlier version of this story erroneously said that Collins had not mentioned his engagement in his Sports Illustrated essay."

"As a journalist, I am committed to giving you all the facts as I know them," Kurtz says, in the video, criticizing Collins for omitting the fact that Collins did not omit. The facts as Howie Kurtz knows them: not the actual facts.

(His video co-host, Lauren Ashburn, also inaccurately refers to the 34-year-old bench player as an "NBA superstar.")

A Somalian-born Muslim cab driver, who also happens to be a U.S. Army Reserve veteran of the Iraq War, says that one of his recent customers, a man furious over the Boston Marathon bombings, broke his jaw during a disagreement in Northern Virginia.

The Washington Post has the scoop on what driver Mohamed A. Salim said happened to him early Friday morning. They also have a video Salim captured with his cell phone that shows the argument that apparently led to his assault by Ed Dahlberg of Clifton, Virginia, who has since been charged with a misdemeanor.

Salim told the Post that he picked Dahlberg up outside of a Fairfax country club around 2 a.m. He tried to get into the cab with a beer, but Salim told him to finish it outside.

Dahlberg asked Salim where he was from and whether or not he was a Muslim, and then asked him what he thought about "jihad." Salim had a sense that the conversation could go south, so he began recording it with his phone.

From their story:

On the video, a middle-aged businessman can be heard asking Salim if he is Islamic and then asserting that most Muslims are terrorists. He says the Koran directs Muslims to kill nonbelievers and then repeatedly and loudly demands that Salim denounce the Sept. 11, 2001, attackers. When Salim asks if the passenger is threatening him, the passenger uses an obscene phrase to respond in the affirmative.

“If you’re a Muslim, you’re a [expletive] jihadist,” the passenger says. “You are just as bad as the rest of them.”

The two men begin to argue, and that's when Salim says Dahlberg started to punch him. Salim said that after he stopped recording to call police, Dahlberg broke his jaw and referenced the Boston bombing as the reason he was so angry.

Salim says he has also lost partial vision and hearing since the attack. He is a married father of four who worked in military intelligence and as a linguist, the Post reported.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations is asking Virginia prosecutors to treat this as a hate crime.

Whether he's guilty of assault or not is up to a jury to decide, but the video makes it clear that the guy is a bigoted asshole. There's no excuse for treating someone else this way.

Photo credit Shutterstock

Users of China's home-brewed Twitter-alike Weibo have been having some fun this week with photos of the phenomenally phallic Beijing headquarters-to-be of the state-run People's Daily newspaper.

The fun quickly came to a predictable halt when the ruling party's censors got word that their mouthpiece was being made fun of, and blocked all search results for "People's Daily building."

But not before a few dirty-eyed Weibos noticed that the People's Daily's Leaning Tower of Penis fit ever-so-snugly into the opening of state-run TV broadcaster CCTV's headquarters, known locally as the "Big Underpants" building.

[H/T: Shanghaiist, top photo Hug China, bottom image Marketing to China]

Miley Cyrus did a hard R-rated photoshoot for the new issue of V Magazine that offers up lots of boobs, buttcheeks, and one giant pair of pink underpants. Despite this feast of flesh, it still manages to be less sexual than the weird Pretty Baby Vanity Fair spread she shot five years ago at age 15.

Evan You don't usually see nervous startup types on national TV shows, but Colbert welcomed Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy last night. His question: why do we need this? How will it make money? Their answer? Uh.

The team was quick to talk up the "ephemeral," "transient," "natural" aspects of Snapchat, which they say will make communication more human than ever. Hm. Colbert needles them about not making any money, the boys mumble something about investor patience and monetization, and it's all a fun time.

But they forgot: Snapchat's also a terrific way to get updates from Taco Bell.

Police in St. Petersburg arrested a very confused individual on Sunday after he allegedly phoned 911 over 80 times in a row to order food and drugs.

"The defendant admitted to calling 911 because he 'wanted Kool-Aid, burgers and weed to be delivered to him,'" a St. Pete officer wrote in the affidavit.

Jarvis Sutton was subsequently charged with misusing the 911 system.

On the way to jail, Sutton, still famished from having never received his order, apparently began to gnaw on the foam-covered metal caging that divided the police cruiser.

The 34-year-old remained behind bar yesterday in lieu of $150 bail.

[mug shot via WTSP]

Admitted recreational marijuana smoker Barack Obama is still letting the Justice Department harass established San Francisco medical pot dispensaries out of business, with the 15-year-old Hemp Center in the Richmond District the latest to be threatened by the feds.

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag warned of "property seizures and prison sentences" if the Hemp Center didn't close its doors. Medical marijuana is legal in California and has been since voters approved Proposition 215 way back in 1996. Why won't the federal government leave marijuana users alone in states that have legalized its use, like Obama promised after Colorado and Washington state approved getting high for purely recreational reasons in the same liberal landslide election that gave him a second term?

SF Weekly says 11 Bay Area pot dispensaries have been shut down by Justice Department threats just since 2011. The Hemp Center is one of the few remaining where people can smoke right there where they pick up their dope. This is a huge thing because no-smoking ordinances apply to almost every building in the Bay Area, and landlords have targeted tenants just for having the occasional joint inside, where at least the cops aren't watching and waiting to harass everybody for their Proposition 215 ID card.

If this pot shop closes, there won't be another legal place for people to purchase marijuana on the whole west side of town—the Hemp Center is the last dispensary in Richmond and the Sunset District. When you're dying of cancer or AIDS or blinded by glaucoma or crippled by diabetes, having a place on your side of town to get relief is a legitimate concern.

[Photo via Shutterstock.]

Teen-mom-cum-porn-monger Farrah Abraham spoke out for the first time today about her recently "leaked" sex tape which she somehow convinced Vivid Entertainment to buy for a million dollars (or more).

In a talking-selfie posted on her Twitter account, Abraham asked her followers what they would have done in her place.

"You have been a single mother for four years, off and on dating loser-ass boys who always try to sell information, lie to you, manipulate, and you’ve just realized you’re an awesome person and you deserve someone," Abraham intones, setting up what Gossip Cop calls "a somewhat confusing leap to justifying her choice to film the hardcore scenes that became Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom."

She continues:

And now that you've been 21, you've pretty much been crying every night because you're single and you're alone, and so you make your own video to celebrate your awesome body, get your own sexy shots, so the person you did this with has an urge to yell it out when he should be professional and not, so you have a company who's interested, why not sell it? And that's what I did.

Farrah's co-star James Deen also made similar comments in a recent tweet, telling his own followers: "Last night I banged a lady in her vag while simultaneously licking her butthole. I AM going to be arrogant about this one... I'M AWESOME!!!"

Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom will be officially released to the public this coming Monday, but the first stills from the film have already been "leaked" (see uncensored below, via Egotastic).

As for whether the tape will live up to its name, Vivid founder Steven Hirsch suggested in a press release that it "definitely" will.

"I think many fans will be shocked at how truly explicit it is," Hirsch is quoted as saying, "including stunning backdoor scenes. Farrah’s looks remind me of a young Kim Kardashian and we all know how her story turned out."

[top image via Vivid, YouTube; screengrabs via Egotastic, WWTDD]

The spire that will make the One World Trade Center the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere was raised to the top of the structure today like a giant candle on a towering cake. We were at the construction site to watch the magic unfold.

The last piece of the spire is 408-feet-tall, weighs 12 tons, and will bring the WTC to a massively patriotic 1,776 feet. Not only does it make One WTC the third tallest in the world, it's the building's broadcast facility, made from 18 section of steel, including three communication rings, and a maintenance platform. All and all, lower Manhattan's giant exclamation point weighs 1,485 tons.

While the spire wasn't actually put into its final position today—that'll happen in the near future—this morning some of the most badass construction workers to ever don Timberland boots hoisted the piece from the ground floor all the way up to the top of the building's 104 stories.

The whole ride, remarkably enough, only took about 20 minutes. Here's how it went from beginning to awe-inspiring end, in video and pictures.

From a cherry picker just above the construction site, workers inspected the LED-filled spire to made sure everything was in place, and attached an American flag to the bottom.

Then, in the most amazing game of tug-o-war ever, on the ground, a stacked, hardhat-clad worker pulled a rope, hand over hand, to set the spire into the harness that would take it to the top.

Then, amid cheers, it was elevator up.

Outwardly gruff site workers couldn't hide excitement and pride—you could see it through the selfies they took with the spire soaring in the background.

Rightfully so. As you watched the spire climb to the top, you couldn't help but contemplate the sheer size of One WTC. At just the halfway through the spire's ride, you almost had to do a backbend to see the final piece. Now it's almost installed in its throne, the crowning achievement of an architectural gem.

And here's 15 minutes of action in one convenient GIF:

Images by Michael Hession
GIF by Nicolas Stango