The hysteria-inducing news stories meant to get people to get the vaccine in order to save lives? Understandable. That there isn’t enough vaccine? Shameful.

That American Idol alum/sensation Adam Lambert is gay is hardly a surprise to anyone. And yet, this record label keeps trying to stuff this big gay cat back into his rainbow colored bag.

What is it with the right glorifying these stupid and/or horrifyingly offensive women?

Fast, easy, and perfect for the chocoholics and pumpkin-lovers in the family.

Hand-embroidered pillows, the perfect wedding or holiday gift for the crafty recessionista.

Fast, easy, and guaranteed to sing everyone off into their final food-coma just in time for the post-Thanksgiving feast football game/nap.

I love the biting humor of The Family Guy, but when they make fun of Marlee Matlin for being deaf, is it too much?

In the end it turns out that there is one thing I just can’t stomach: Prejudice.

Just when it seemed that things couldn’t get any weirder, douchebag daddy Jon Gosselin has found Moses and thrown himself on the mercy of the world.

Five fave celebs who we loved and who were taken too soon.

Which politician should you be for Halloween this year?

Our top fanged ones of all time.

Like many, I put my faith President Obama’s promises of hope and change. Who wouldn’t want to? I for one am hoping to see this change come very, very soon.

These days it’s all Zac vs. Robert, but the phenomenon of teen heartthrob-dom is far from new. So who adorned our seventh grade bedroom walls before the Jonas Brothers were but a twinkle in their dad’s eye?

Our fave musicians of 2009 to emulate this Halloween