Death+Taxes

As days go by, the predicament facing those 33 trapped miners continues to become more like a reality TV show than an urgent rescue operation. First the news broke that they live, then Sony and NASA fluffed the media’s attention by presenting them with game consoles and denials for wine and tobacco, and now the inevitable homewrecker enters the fray—miner mania is underway.

Arcade Fire posted their performance from Madison Square Garden, directed by Terry Gilliam, on their YouTube channel. The catch: it will only be up for twenty-four hours. So stop refreshing your Facebook feed and put away the streaming web porn for an hour and a half and enjoy Arcade Fire at the most famous arena in the country.

Tennis can reek with boredom as an observer sport. Little has happened to give it spark since McEnroe retired. But this all changed at the US Open last night, when one heckler’s choice of words launched a bleacher-wide brawl.

Will Arnett appeared on “Letterman” last night and premiered a clip from his new show “Running Wilde.” Or did he?

The Millennial Generation, which played a key role in making the Democratic Party the comeback kids in 2006 and 2008, now have a considerably different attitude toward the party that became their first political love.

Panda Bear, the solo project for Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox, announces a new single, “You Can Count On Me.” Want to see Panda Bear at FYF Fest in LA tomorrow? We’re giving away tickets!!

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s sex-life is about to be exposed to the world. Why aren’t any of America’s female political figures on the chopping block too?

Excerpts from his book, ‘The Grand Design’ appeared in the UK’s ‘The Guardian’ on Thursday which set ablaze the paper’s website. Hawking wrote, “it is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

The Associated Press is reporting that the oil rig explosion that happened earlier today is casting a mile long oil sheen in the Gulf, falsifying previous reports of the well being inactive.

If House minority leader John Boehner wants to be elected Speaker, he has to win over the Republican Party’s Young Guns, particularly money machine Eric Cantor.

“Fires of Comparison” releases today on Fat Possum’s website for free download. The reason for the lack of vocals, the band explains, is because they caught strep throat from sharing a pipe with a hobo.

On August 8^th, 2010, sometime in the late evening, investment banker, oil industry insider and energy advisor to President George W. Bush, Matthew Simmons, put on a pair of swimming trunks, climbed into his hot tub at his Maine home and attempted to relax after a long day’s work. By 10:00pm Simmons had been found dead, floating in the hot tub of an apparent drowning.