Next to computer software and hairstyles for the bald, no field in the business world offers more competitive innovative thinking than fast food breakfasts. Witness the vast array of culinary creativity currently on display from our nation's leading dining options.

It is an exciting time to be involved in the world of fast food breakfasts—whether as a corporate CEO, franchise owner, morning shift employee, or lazy bastard in the drive-thru. Right now, the entire industry is trying to "eat" into the market share of the fast food breakfast (Burger) king, McDonald's—and you can be sure that a few "eggs will be broken" when making this metaphorical "omelette" (or Egg McMuffin) of fast food industry competition (with a side of "hash browns," meaning big money!). It's a real "scramble" for profits where everyone is trying to "squeeze enough juice" (money) out of the "orange" (customer) to satisfy their "hungry bellies" (shareholders). From the Wall Street Journal:

Yum Brands Inc.'s Taco Bell last month made its morning meal debut with its Waffle Taco. Also late last month, White Castle Management Co. launched a new Belgian Waffle sandwich. In an apparent answer to the breakfast invasion, McDonald's offered free coffee during breakfast hours from March 31 through April 13, the results of which won't show up until the second quarter.

And that's not all. A brief rundown of the fast food breakfast options available to Americans today, in the greatest time to be alive in the greatest nation in the history of the world:

McDonald's: Eggs and meat and cheese on a biscuit or English muffin.

Starbucks: Eggs and meat and cheese on a slightly more expensive English muffin.

Burger King: Eggs and meat and cheese on a bad croissant.

Taco Bell: Eggs and meat and cheese in a taco.

Subway: Eggs and meat and cheese in a sub roll.

White Castle: Eggs and meat and cheese in a Belgian Waffle.

Dunkin Donuts: Eggs and meat and cheese on donuts.

Compare this to just a few generations ago, when your grandparents had to settle for eggs and meat and cheese on a plate. Now that's what I call "breakfast" (progress in the mass industrialization of food)!

[Photo: Flickr]

Months after Justin Bieber faux-outraged Americans with an adorable little crime spree, the White House has finally responded to a petition to deport the singer back to his native Canada with a polite, "Yeah, no."

270,000 people signed the We The People petition after the tiny pop star egged a neighbor's house and then got arrested for street racing while allegedly under the influence of booze and prescription drugs. (You may remember this as the time we almost saw Even Littler Justin.)

The Obama administration has agreed to respond to any petition that reaches 100,000 signatures, no matter how dumb, with a statement appropriate to that petition's degree of dumbitude. In this case, they subtly acknowledged that everyone hates the Biebs, and then pivoted to immigration reform.

Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one.

The We the People terms of participation state that, "to avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."

So we'll leave it to others to comment on Mr. Bieber's case, but we're glad you care about immigration issues. Because our current system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers, and 11 million people are living in the shadows.

Your move, federal departments and agencies. At this time, there's been no comment from the CDC on progress toward approving a vaccine for Bieber Fever.

[H/T: Uproxx, Photo: Miami-Dade County]

"The average credit card interest rate for people with fair credit has hit a shocking 21 percent, up more than 2 percent from only a year ago."

Game of Thrones' characters found themselves recovering from King Joffrey's death, and its viewers found themselves wondering: Why did no one wonder where Littlefinger was? Who is Tommen, and is he an incest child? Where the hell are Arya and the Hound? And what is Danaerys doing?

Below, as with episodes one and two, I've put together a list of scenes, references, and characters that deserve a special comment or mention. There's no way I got all of the good stuff (and I might be wrong on some of things I've left below)—so please help expand our appendix.

A man is charged with aggravated assault against his girlfriend after an Easter egg decorating party went horribly awry Sunday, leaving the woman with a black eye and the man under arrest after attacking cops with a sword.

When his girlfriend accused him of cheating, Aaron Goempel, a 27-year-old Pittsburgh resident, allegedly attacked her by throwing the hardboiled Easter eggs they were dyeing together. When police arrived, the victim's eye was red and swollen, and Goempel had locked himself in a bedroom with "a makeshift barricade."

As police pushed their way into the room, he reached for a sword from his knife-and-sword collection (why do these guys always seem to keep swords around?) and tried to stab officers. He only succeeded in yelling racist slurs and kicking one cop in the groin, the Pittsburgh Tribune reports.

Goempel can add aggravated assault to his long list of pending charges. He also awaits trial for separate incidents of harassment, prowling, assault, and traffic violations, and his record includes previous convictions for public drunkenness.

[H/T: Huffington Post, Photo Credit: Facebook]

As the official death toll from the disaster rose to 86, the president of South Korea condemned the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry Sewol on Monday, calling their behavior "unforgivable" and "murderous."

President Park Geun-hye made the comments Monday at a Cabinet briefing. "What the captain and part of the crew did is unfathomable from the viewpoint of common sense," she said. "Unforgivable, murderous behavior."

From the Associated Press:

Park said instead of following a marine traffic controller's instructions to "make the passengers escape," the captain "told the passengers to stay put while they themselves became the first to escape."

"Legally and ethically," she said, "this is an unimaginable act."

Captain Lee Joon-seok and two of his crew members were arrested early Saturday morning. If convicted, Lee faces five years in prison. From CNN:

Prosecutor Lee Bong-chang gave more details about the accusations against the captain.

"Mr. Lee is charged with causing the Sewol ship to sink by failing to slow down while sailing the narrow route and making (a) turn excessively," the prosecutor told the semiofficial Yonhap news agency.

"Lee is also charged with failing to do the right thing to guide the passengers to escape and thereby leading to their death or injury."

On Monday, authorities arrested four other crew members—two first mates, one second mate and a chief engineer.

[Image via AP]

A local news station decided to add some cute to its Easter coverage by bringing in a pair of bunnies to do what they do best: delivering eggs and candy and bringing joy to children. Just kidding! Fucking.

Knoxville, Tenn.'s WBIR-TV had to quickly cut to some family-friendly news after the two adorable rabbits started engaging in cute, fuzzy rabbit coitus right there on the desk.

It's going to be super awkward for the baby bunnies when their bunny friends find out that this porno of their parents is all over the internet. Sorry about that, baby bunnies. You're still adorable.

[H/T: Hypervocal]

A 49-year-old New York man fell to his death after his parachute failed to open while he was skydiving. He landed in a backyard in Washington Township, N.J. around 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, right as the family next door was in the middle of an Easter egg hunt.

Arkady Shenker was an experienced skydiver with 350 jumps under his belt. On Sunday, he was with a group of 15, run by Monroe Township, N.J.-based Freefall Adventures. Gloucester County officials and the FAA are investigating what caused his "wing suit"-style parachute to fail—it's unclear whether Shenker made a mistake or the suit itself malfunctioned.

The Dye family, who were shocked to see Shenker drop in during their egg hunt, rushed to help.

"I saw the jumpers. Then I noticed one and he kind of looked like he wasn't conscious, he was just spinning," Annie Marie Dye told ABC 6.

"He put a dent in the ground about [a foot] deep," another neighbor said.

Shenker was taken to Kennedy Hospital, where he was pronounced dead just after 3:30 p.m.

He's not the first skydiver to lose his life during a Freefall Adventures jump. In 2011, Scott Shields, the mayor of Rutledge, Pa., died on a jump with the same company. After Shields failed to pull his chute in time, the automatic backup chute didn't open all the way.

[H/T Daily Mail, Photo: NBC 10]

Once upon a time, a lot of gangsters got together and built some casinos in the middle of a desert. For inexplicable reasons, these casinos were allowed to flourish into a major metropolitan area: Las Vegas. Now, that city is staring down a dry, waterless future.

Without knowing our nation's predilections for gambling and gangsterism, one might wonder why the hell we would decide to build a popular and flourishing major metropolitan area in the middle of a parched desert during a time of global warming and water crises. (The answer, of course, is "We are dumb.") In the L.A. Times today, John Glionna examines the future of Las Vegas' rapidly dwinding water supply. Virtually every single fact in the story is capable of producing a sense of despair mixed with wonder at the profound lack of foresight displayed by everyone responsible for Vegas' existence. Nine tenths of the city's water comes from Lake Mead, which one quoted researchers says has a 50/50 chance of being completely tapped out by 2036. A few Vegas water lowlights:

-"Las Vegas uses more water per capita than most communities in America — 219 gallons of water per person every day — and charges less for it than many communities." HMM.

- "[Rational people] say the city has been cavalier about looming water shortages, pointing to projects such as Lake Las Vegas, a 320-acre artificial oasis built with man-made rivers and waterfalls amid the high-end homes and luxury resorts."

-"About 70% of Las Vegas water goes to lawns, public parks and golf courses."

Nothing can happen to Las Vegas that Las Vegas does not deserve.

[Photo of beautiful Lake Las Vegas YOU IDIOTS: FB]

Last night's episode of Game of Thrones featured plenty of disturbing scenes, but one stood head-and-shoulders above the rest: Jaime and Cersei. In the crypt. With a corpse (or at least next to one).

Readers who knew what was going to happen and viewers who didn't were both incredibly disturbed by what was unmistakably incestuous funeral-rape. But the episode's director, Alex Graves, actually believed shooting the scene was "one of the greatest days I've ever had filming," as he told The Hollywood Reporter. That's not to say he wasn't apprehensive about it. When he saw the script, he said, "That was like — you read the scene and go, 'Wait, who's directing this?'"

The scene in question takes place after the Purple Wedding, in the crypt where the late King Joffrey's body is lying in state. After Charles Dance totally kills it as Tywin and takes the new King Tommen out of the room and under his wing, incestuous twins Jaime and Cersei are left alone. Alone with, and I can't stress this enough, the remains of their dead son (upon whose eyes someone has put creepy stones painted with more eyes).

At this point, it wasn't a surprise when they started to get it on, because we've unfortunately grown to expect that kind of thing from such a dysfunctional family. What no one, even book readers, expected was that the encounter would shift into a rape. "I'm never that excited about going to film forced sex," Graves told the Reporter. "But the whole thing for me was about dead Joffrey lying there, watching the whole thing."

Yep. There's no artistic challenge quite like keeping the focus on a dead teenager's body during a rape scene. Although Graves might not even consider it rape. In an interview with HitFix, he explained his take on the scene, saying that "it becomes consensual by the end, because anything for them ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle."

So rape isn't rape so long as it seems consensual at some point? Whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy.

Meb Keflezighi crosses the finish line in first place to win the 2014 Boston Marathon on Monday. Meb is the first American winner of the Boston Marathon since 1983. Image via Jared Wickerham/Getty.

Airbnb might lose the fight of its life—or at least the trust of its customers—the very same week that it officially closed a deal for $450 million in venture capital. The New York Post reports that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will go forward with a subpoena "to identify users who are illegally renting out apartments."

The subpoena demanding user data on 15,000 hosts was originally filed in October. However, Airbnb was in settlement talks with the AG's office as of last week. Negotiations failed spectacularly, from the sounds of it. Both sides have come out swinging.

Airbnb sent a somewhat unhinged and misleading email out yesterday (pasted below) making Schneiderman sound like Ayn Rand's personal boogeyman. Then this morning, AG's office filed an affidavit in Albany (embedded below) claiming that 64 percent of Airbnb listings in New York are illegal. Oral arguments around the subpoena begin tomorrow.

Sixty-four percent illegal doesn't match what Airbnb has said before. In February, the company told Skift: "87 percent of Airbnb hosts in New York share only the home in which they live." But that description seems to designed to say very little. New York law says permanent residents must be present in the apartment if they're going to sublet it for less than 30 days.

In response to questions from Valleywag, Schneiderman's press secretary said:

"Attorney General Schneiderman has worked in partnership with innovative tech companies like Facebook and Yelp! to curb illegal activity on their sites. It's disappointing that AirBnB has taken a different approach, with name calling and PR campaigns to confuse the issue and evade the law."

Airbnb has been astroturfing in New York for the sharing economy and is now using the same approach in San Francisco. As for the name-calling, here are some choice words from the email from yesterday. It was written by David Hantman, Airbnb's head of global public policy. Emphasis mine:

"...the Attorney General made it clear that he will seek personal data on our users until the end of time."

" The Attorney General has now modified his request for data about our community. Barely. If you're one of the thousands of New Yorkers who has ever rented out your place while you were away for a weekend, the Attorney General still wants to know who you are and where you live."

"The government will accuse Airbnb hosts of being bad neighbors and bad citizens. They'll call us slumlords and tax cheats. They might even say we all faked the moon landing."

"Taking on an Attorney General who is determined to fight innovation and attack regular people isn't easy and we won't succeed without standing together."

I'm sure Schneiderman can handle the harsh feedback. He must be ticked off too if he's using the same raw data from January for his affidavit, which Skift already analyzed. Airbnb's expert evasion is a bigger concern than its bluster.

Here's how their cases breaks down. The AG's office is asking for data on hosts (not the renters) who are subletting their "entire apartment" for less than 30 days because that violates the law about being present. It's also possible that Schneiderman is looking for potential unpaid taxes, along with checking on consumer protections, like fire safety.

In the email, Hantman argues:

"Short term rental laws were never meant to apply to New Yorkers occasionally renting out their own home."

Hantman's right. Craigslist still hasn't gotten this treatment. But this is what happens when you've raised $776 million. People expect you to figure out your tax burden before the $10 billion mark.

Airbnb isn't doing itself any favors with the innocent act. Hantman also claimed:

"The small group of bad actors that abused our platform aren't part of the Airbnb community anymore, or they are on their way out the door. "

But the affidavit says more than 200 listings came from only five sources, indicating that a third party is renting out the locations: "The top five hosts by number of listings had the following number of listings: 80, 35, 31, 29 and 28." Schneiderman's office said you can still find repeat offenders on the site.

Even if the court squashes the subpoena, it can't feel good to know data that could affect taxes or standing with a landlord came so close to an attorney general's hands, especially when Airbnb has not put much of that $776 million toward a fair warning. Maybe that's what happens when you write about how not to "fuck up" your company culture, without ever really explaining what your culture is.

To contact the author of this post, please email nitasha@gawker.com

Here is Hantman's email:

Dear Nitasha,

Last year, we were shocked when the New York Attorney General demanded personal information about thousands of New Yorkers who share their space on Airbnb. But we were amazed at what happened next. Everyone in the Airbnb community, people who care about privacy and countless New Yorkers said enough is enough. This attack on thousands of regular New Yorkers who occasionally rent out their homes was a wrongheaded waste of time and law enforcement resources. We weren't going to take it.

I heard you speak out at meetings in New York and online. And I was honored to stand with you. But I didn't anticipate sending this email because I never thought we'd be talking about this issue so many months later.

The Attorney General said he was going after a few bad apples, so we were optimistic that we would resolve this matter. But actions speak louder than words. Time and time again, the Attorney General has demanded personal information about thousands of New Yorkers. He professed to be interested in collecting more tax dollars for New York. Last week, we once again campaigned to change the law so our community can contribute $21 million in taxes to New York.

In response, the hotel lobby said it would fight this common-sense proposal and the Attorney General made it clear that he will seek personal data on our users until the end of time. The Attorney General has now modified his request for data about our community. Barely. If you're one of the thousands of New Yorkers who has ever rented out your place while you were away for a weekend, the Attorney General still wants to know who you are and where you live.

So, the fight continues. I want you to know what happens next.

On Tuesday, Airbnb will be in court in Albany, fighting the Attorney General's demand for your data. The government will accuse Airbnb hosts of being bad neighbors and bad citizens. They'll call us slumlords and tax cheats. They might even say we all faked the moon landing.

That's OK. We know the truth and we'll fight to make sure the court and everyone in New York hears some simple facts:

• The vast majority of our community members are regular New Yorkers just trying to make ends meet.
• We want to collect and remit taxes on behalf of our hosts, and lobbyists for the big hotels are standing in our way.
• Short term rental laws were never meant to apply to New Yorkers occasionally renting out their own home.
• The small group of bad actors that abused our platform aren't part of the Airbnb community anymore, or they are on their way out the door.
• Our community will generate $768 million in economic activity in New York in this year alone.

The judge in this case could issue a ruling on Tuesday, or take weeks or even months to make up his mind. He could rule in our favor, or against us. He might ask the Attorney General to narrow his demand. If we are ordered to hand over any data, we will work to ensure you are properly notified before the government receives any information about you or your listing.

No matter what happens in the courtroom, we'll be holding a community meetup in New York City on Wednesday at 7:00 PM and a webinar on Thursday at 11:00 AM. At each event, we'll answer your questions and discuss the next steps. We'll email additional details about these events in the coming days.

Taking on an Attorney General who is determined to fight innovation and attack regular people isn't easy and we won't succeed without standing together. We'll do everything we can to keep you informed about this case and our work to fix the bad law that made it possible.

Finally, know this - New York is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to the sharing economy for now, but that won't last forever.

City after city is embracing our hosts and the sharing economy. Hamburg, then Amsterdam, and now France have all changed their laws and to support homesharing. San Francisco might be next. Someday, New York will join them. Someday, our amazing community and the passion they have for New York will break through opposition from people like Attorney General Schneiderman. We saw how our hosts banded together after Superstorm Sandy to open up their own homes to people in need, and that kind of love for New York and for New Yorkers manifests itself every day in countless other ways Eventually, the small group of politicians who feel they must oppose us will fall away, and New York will truly become a Shared City.

Standing together, showing the world who we are and what we stand for, we will turn the tide in New York.

Thank you for all you do.

Sincerely,

David Hantman
Head of Global Public Policy

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Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic steered right into the rocks last week when Social Network director David Fincher dropped the project because Sony reportedly wouldn't meet his demands for a $10 million paycheck. Fincher's first (and only) choice to play the Apple founder was Christian Bale—so who's going to fill that Jobs-shaped hole?

Enter Leo DiCaprio, in pursuit of an Oscar. (Hey, it worked for Ashton Kut—wait.)

Sony is reportedly in talks with Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, who's already approached DiCaprio about playing Apple's chief eccentric billionaire. Boyle and DiCaprio last worked together on The Beach (2000), but both have put together a long string of better movies since then.

If the actor-director pair reteam for the new Jobs film, and if it doesn't collapse under the weight of Sorkin's dialogue, could Leo finally win that Academy Award?

[H/T The Verge, Photo: Getty Images]

By now you've probably heard of "Pervert Dave" Cummings, the Florida man who vaulted to posthumous fame when an obituary including his peculiar nickname hit viral velocity. But according to a new story, we didn't know the half of it—like the time he shot Wheelchair Skip six times.

Tampa Bay Times staff writer (and president of the Society of Professional Obituary Writers) Andrew Meacham has published a long look at Cummings' life, and it is a barnburner, from the old man's Hepatitis C to his Harley Davidson and his fear of commercial air travel.

An Air Force vet who was discharged for mental problems and wrestled with combat stress, Cummings "claimed to have been aboard three planes that were shot down in Vietnam," Meacham writes.

That may help explain Cummings' propensity for violence toward amputees and females:

Over a 13-month period in the late 1980s, Mr. Cummings killed two people. One was a guy known as Wheelchair Skip, an amputee roommate in Inglis he shot six times during an argument over money. He was also charged with driving under the influence manslaughter when a woman who was riding with him died after Mr. Cummings slammed into a tree.

He claimed self-defense in the shooting death of Furman W. Toney III, the amputee who had his own violent history. (Six months earlier, Toney had fired a sawed-off shotgun at an imaginary intruder, instead hitting a 5-year-old girl in the face; she was not seriously injured.)

Charged with second-degree murder in Toney's death, Mr. Cummings languished in jail for about two years until a judge withheld adjudication.

He then pleaded no-contest to DUI manslaughter in the death of Dale Marie Williams, 31, and was sentenced to a year in prison.

Somewhere in there, Cummings found time for three marriages, as well as his beloved pastime of carving wood on his property in the wilds of Citrus County, two hours (and about twenty years) away from Tampa.

Pervert Dave succumbed to liver cancer at 64, just over a week ago, according to "longtime friend Karen Baker." The Times added:

She has good-naturedly handled the hordes of media inquiries following the obituary she placed.

As for the nickname everybody wants to know about, Baker said, "It's just something he came back with from Vietnam. It was just a nickname given to him."

[Photo courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times]

Dan Clevenger, the mayor of Marionville, Mo., resigned Monday night, just six days after he told reporters he "kind of agreed" with Frazier Glenn Miller, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who allegedly shot three people to death at two Kansas Jewish centers last week.

In an interview with KSPR, Clevenger defended Miller, who he described as a "friend," and said he agreed with some of the former KKK leader's views about Jews.

"There some things that are going on in this country that are destroying us. We've got a false economy and it's, some of those corporations are run by Jews because the names are there," he told KSPR. "The fact that the Federal Reserve prints up phony money and freely hands it out, I think that's completely wrong. The people that run the Federal Reserve, they're Jewish."

Those beliefs, combined with an anti-Semitic letter he sent to a local paper nearly a decade ago, were too much for some Marionville residents, many of whom were calling for Clevenger's resignation at a town meeting Monday night

"We must show our neighbors, state, our nation and a global community our true, kind, caring, loving and accepting community," resident John Horner said. "We simply cannot tolerate a public official who makes anti-Semitic comments."

Another resident, John McCormick, told the meeting he felt Clevenger's comments smeared Marionville's good reputation. "We have been slimed, like in Ghostbusters," he said.

It seems most of Horner's neighbors agreed; Marionville's aldermen had voted 4-1 to start the impeachment process before Clevenger finally resigned.

Of course, Marionville still has its fair share of anti-semites, several of whom spoke out Monday night. From the News-Leader's account of the bizarre-sounding town meeting:

Gene Smith spoke in support of the mayor and pointed at his fellow residents.

"I have seen a lot more hatred from some of you people than I have seen out of Dan Clevenger," he said. "I thought we had free speech in America."

Smith blamed the media for "twisting" Clevenger's words, and when a News-Leader reporter later asked if he could take his picture, Smith tried to hit the reporter with one of his crutches.

…

A woman who stood next to him also spoke.

"I personally know and love a Jew," she said. "I have a grandson who is Jewish."

After saying that, she added that the investment firm of Goldman Sachs in New York City has played a large role in damaging the U.S. economy.

[Image via KSPR]

At long last, advertisers are ready to "solve" the "problem" of you rudely ignoring the television ads that they spent so much effort crafting, by looking at your cell phone when the commercials come on.

Ad Age reports that a company called Xaxis (which sounds, appropriately, like an ancient monster) has created a program called Sync that uses data about your demographics, location, and wi-fi use to make an "educated guess" about what TV channel you're watching, and then beams the ads on your TV directly onto your phone at the same time they're on the TV. So that you have nowhere to turn! Seems like a great public service.

"One of the biggest challenges that advertisers have right now, especially when it comes to buying broadcast television, is that up to 50% of people that are watching broadcast television are also engaging with another device," said Xaxis CEO Brian Lesser in an interview with Ad Age. "What we're trying to do with Sync is to solve the problem of users being distracted by their mobile device from the TV."

One thing the story does not make clear is why anyone would allow this horrific product to access their cell phone in the first place. I assume it's some sort of virus?

Arrest Xaxis CEO Brian Lesser ASAP.

[Photo: Shutterstock]

Is Lindsay Lohan really drinking again? Did she actually have a miscarriage? It's all apparently up in the air in the wake of the harrowing finale of her reality show.

An interview with Lohan, timed to coincide with the end of Lindsay, has the actress downing vodka tonics and admitting she's seeing a married father with a private jet and commitment issues. But Lindsay's people are claiming that Kode magazine (who?) made the whole thing up.

"Lindsay never spoke to any journalist at Kode. The interview was completed via email. We have no comprehension on why a journalist would fabricate this content and distribute it in such an irresponsible way," a rep for La Lohan said.

Kode is sticking by its story Lohan drank in front of its writer.

"Yes, the interview took place and everything stated in the article is fact and came directly from Lohan herself. And we have photos chronicling the writer and Lindsay's numerous times together," an executive editor for the magazine told E!.

Meanwhile, RadarOnline has two separate sources claiming the actress lied about having a miscarriage—the series-finale bombshell of Lindsay—to cover up for the times she was late and unreliable during the filming of the show.

"Lindsay was never pregnant during filming the reality show for OWN, or in the months after. Lindsay knew she was being perceived as a total slacker, not showing up on time for photo shoots, call times and refusing to shoot. So this is what Lindsay does," said one.

The other source pointed to Lindsay's alleged smoking and drinking during the show as signs that she wasn't really pregnant.

Still, there's not any more reason to believe anonymous "sources" than there is to believe Lindsay herself, in a show that was more brutally honest than she may have even intended.

There are really no winners here.

[H/T Guyism, Photo: Kode Magazine]

The unlikeliest publishing and economics news of the year: Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is so popular that it is sold out on Amazon, as well as in every fucking book store in NYC. Harvard University Press has yet to master supply and demand.

Step 1: Catch a boot to the head while trying to take a selfie with a passing train. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!

Jared Michael Frank, the man who became famous(ish) when you couldn't stop watching a loop of a conductor's foot colliding with his hipster face, is now turning that fame into fortune. Apparently media companies are in a rush to piggyback on his classic video and its 22 million YouTube views, and they're offering him thousands of dollars in advertising and licensing opportunities.

YouTube's official monthly figures haven't been totaled up yet, but Frank could bank anywhere from $30,000 to $250,000, CBC reports.

"I'm a little worried, but I have a decent relationship with the licensing company, so I trust them," he said Monday. "I did a lot of research first."

Frank, of Regina, Saskatchewan, says he'll use the money to pay for his recent trip to Peru, which is where he captured the famous video, and also to go to film school. He has a few movie ideas he'd like to work on.

[H/T Digg]

In a 6-2 ruling announced on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that banned affirmative action policies in publicly funded institutions, including state universities.

Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the plurality opinion, and was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. Justices Roberts, Stephen Breyer, and Antonin Scalia filed individual concurring opinions, with Justice Clarence Thomas joining Scalia’s.* Dissenting were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, while Justice Elena Kagan recused herself, due to her work on a similar case as solicitor general.

The case before the court, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, challenged the constitutionality of Proposal 2, a successful statewide referendum banning the consideration of race, sex, and religion in hiring or admissions to public institutions. The proposal, also known as the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, has been challenged in courts several times prior to Tuesday’s ruling.

In his opinion, Justice Kennedy stressed that the court did not consider the constitutionality of affirmative action per se, only the right of voters to ban the practice at a state level by putting it to a vote.

Proposal 2’s executive director was Jennifer Gratz (pictured above), who was the plaintiff in a 2003 case over affirmative action that eventually reached the Supreme Court, which in a 6-3 split ruled that the University of Michigan’s admissions policy was unconstitutional. At the time, the university gave a certain number of “points” to applicants who were racial minorities.

* The breakdown was updated to better reflect which Justices joined others in which opinions.

[Photo credit: Getty Images]