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.

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.

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.

Early Wednesday another oil rig exploded in the Gulf Coast. This news comes only hours after Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal made a speech pushing to lift the Obama administration’s ban on deepwater drilling.

Andy Roddick went down in the second round of the US Open last night, in a wave of vitriol over a foot foul, taking America’s chances at the tournament with him. Is there an apt metaphor here for America’s challenges on the world stage?

British Petroleum spent about $94 million on advertising after the oil spill. Was it worth it?

Ramadan services at a mosque in upstate New York were repeatedly disrupted last week by five local teenagers driving around in a car brandishing a twelve gauge shotgun and an utter lack of creativity.

The privatized space exploration firm led by Tesla Motors founder, Elon Musk, hopes its Dragon capsule will make history by being one of the first commercially owned capsules to reach orbit.

In March, Andrew Joseph Stack III, a libertarian from Austin, Texas, flew a plane into the city’s IRS building. At that point, right-wing anti-government sentiment took a dangerous turn. Liberal earth-defenders don’t seem to have much in common with their Tea Party counterparts, but James Jae Lee has proven us wrong. UPDATE.

Hold onto your hats New Yorkers, we could be in for a bumpy ride this Labor Day weekend. While the Category 3 monster Hurricane Earl is not expected to make direct landfall here in New York, we could experience some nasty leftovers if it continues on its current West-bound course.

Chatroulette recently announced a software to recognize all lewd images (dicks) and keep them from appearing on the site in real-time. But as Brandon Spikes demonstrated this morning, it clearly doesn’t work. Celebs beware: Chatroulette can still see your penis. And so can we.