Rawr! Lad mag Maxim has announced its rankings for the annual Hot 100, “The Definitive List Of The World’s Most Beautiful Women”, which this year made a popular vote open to its readers. While many of the usual suspects made the list — like Leonardo DiCaprio‘s ex-girlfriend Bar Refaeli and Daily Show correspondent Olivia Munn — readers awarded Stephen Colbert the list’s #69 position. Wink.

Several weeks after President Obama‘s completed “evolution” on gay marriage, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, to be released later today, shows that the announcement seems to have had very little effect on voters. NBC reports that the poll shows a combined 17 percent say the president’s announcement makes them “much more likely” or “somewhat more likely” to vote for him in November. That’s compared with a combined 20 percent who say they are now more likely to vote for staunchly anti-gay marriage Republican Mitt Romney.

Yesterday we wrote about Penn Jillette going off on President Obama. However, he wasn’t the only entertainment icon to give his (negative) thoughts on a 2012 presidential candidate. Bruce Willis did an interview with Esquire Magazine. In it, the actor explained that he’s grown tired of interviews because he knows that he’ll say something he shouldn’t like dissing Mitt Romney.

So much for thinking that drug legalization was a lightning-rod issue that no mainstream politician could ever support without facing major backlash. A new poll from Rasmussen reports that “a solid majority of voters nationwide favor legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated.” That “solid majority” constitutes 56% of the Likely Voters polled by Rasmussen. 36% of Americans are opposed to legalizing and regulating.

The bad news is, the latest season of Celebrity Apprentice is over, stealing away America’s weekly rations of Donald Trump. The good news is, this apparently gives Donald Trump more time to make videos where he yells into his laptop about whatever he feels like yelling about that day. Today that thing is Will Smith slapping a guy for trying to kiss him– or, more specifically, why someone needs to smack around Sacha Baron Cohen until he stops making all those movies.

At a town hall event Monday in rural Iowa, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) compared immigrants to dogs, telling his constituents that the U.S. should allow only the best immigrants the way people choose the “pick of the litter.” King brought up his experience raising bird dogs to explain how the immigrant-dog metaphor works: “You want a good bird dog? You want one that’s going to be aggressive? Pick the one that’s the friskiest, the one that’s engaged the most, and not the one that’s over there sleeping in the corner.”

A US Airways airplane flying from Paris to North Carolina had to make an emergency landing today in Maine after a mid-flight security issue that some outlets are reporting as a passenger exhibiting “suspicious behavior.” According to the Transporation Security Administration, the flight was diverted “out of an abundance of caution.”

A massive expose in the L.A. Times on Tuesday resurrects the political attack on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s wife Ann Romney and her expensive hobby of keeping and riding dressage horses. The L.A. Times reveals a lawsuit that the Romney’s had to settle in which the extent of their addiction to pricey hobby riding. However, while the L.A. Times refrains from drawing political conclusions from their expose, those conclusions had been made in the past by other media outlets that sought to shed light on Ann Romney’s pecuniary habits.

In a discussion yesterday at Ohio State University, Fox News chief Roger Ailes blew the lid off the Jon Stewart‘s true ideology, apparently after being asked whether Stewart would do well without Fox News. Ailes commented that Stewart had more or less admitted to being a socialist while the two were in a bar. Which begs the question: where is this bar where Roger Ailes and Jon Stewart can be seen hanging out together?

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People sell lots of weird things on auction sites, from eBay to Sotheby’s, but this bit of presidential history might be a bit more macabre than most. For some reason, someone has preserved a vial of blood taken from President Ronald Reagan, hospital-labeled and all, and is ready to part ways with it. Incredibly (or perhaps not so incredibly on the internet), the bidding is quite hot for this item!

Last week we reported that former Obama green jobs adviser Van Jones felt remorse for the fact that because the president was a Democrat, he and other progressives kept silent during the BP oil spill. This move away from stiff partisan allegiance seems to continue this morning, as Jones tweeted his support for Cory Booker in the wake of the Newark mayor’s criticism of the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital and subsequent backtracking.

In an editorial published Tuesday, former MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan warns of the possibility of racially charged violence if George Zimmerman is acquitted in the murder trial of Trayvon Martin. Buchanan links the possibility of Zimmerman’s acquittal to the 1992 trail of several L.A. police officers who were cleared of charges in the beating of Rodney King that provoked a week of wide-spread violence.

On Monday’s Late Show, host David Letterman offered a glimpse at a campaign ad showing how a Mitt Romney presidency might look.

After joking that Romney has so much money on him that his wallet requires a handle and wheels, Letterman cued the ad.

The Daily Caller reports that Friday afternoon at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Food and Global Agriculture (mouthful!) symposium, U2 singer and humanitarian Bono declared that even though “we are broke,” we need to increase foreign aid budgets. And to those who disagree? Well, Bono says you’re all “brain-dead, heart-dead ideologues or controversialists.”

Hey, remember that amazing picture of the couple making out in the street during the Canadian hockey riot last year? That was both awesomely romantic and a sign of our tumultuous times. But, this year, I think we can go one notch better. Forget making out. How about getting freakin’ married?!

NBC Nightly News and Rock Center anchor Brian Williams delivered the commencement address Sunday to George Washington University’s graduating class on DC’s National Mall. At one point, Williams lamented the state of American partisanship, saying “our politics are broken.” He also told the crowd of 25,000 that dropping out of college was one of his “great regrets.”

Ken Bennett, Arizona’s secretary of state, made headlines late last week following an interview in which he said it’s “possible” he’d take President Barack Obama off the state’s ballot without birth certificate confirmation from Hawaii. Responding to his request, Hawaii officials said there are further steps Bennett needs to take — including proving that he need such confirmation.

I love New York. My adopted home is the most wonderful place in the world. There’s all the history in the streets, the beauty in the skyline, and, most importantly, the poetry in the language. I guess what I’m saying, is that New Yorkers know how to curse at each other. However, recently, I’ve become disheartened. Watching the way folks like the British swear, I’ve begun to worry that we may have lost our throne. Which is why I’m so glad to see this cell phone footage of NYPD Sgt. Lesly Charles. Now this guy knows how to be profane.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker caused quite a stir when he criticized President Barack Obama‘s attack on Bain Capital. Rather inevitably, Mitt Romney‘s campaign has released an ad featuring Booker (who is an Obama surrogate). The message: even the president’s own party is turning against him.

North Carolina pastor Charles L. Worley has a suggestion for dealing with gay individuals: round ‘em all up and stick ‘em in a pen until they eventually die out. You know, just like Jesus would have done.

Humorist, Libertarian commentator, and “the one who talks,” Penn Jillette, launched into an epic rant about what he saw as President Obama and his administration’s hypocritical views on marijuana laws in the country.

I’m sorry, not hypocritical. Beyond hypocritical.

Despite his investment group owning a 2.3 percent stake in Facebook, U2 frontman Bono claims he is not a billionaire following Facebook’s IPO on Friday. Following Facebook’s public offering, Bloomberg TV reports that Bono’s investment group Elevation is now reportedly worth $1.5 billion. But Bono insists he is not a billionaire and is not “richer than any Beatle.”

Michael Steele made clear today that he completely opposes any work the NAACP does with Planned Parenthood. In a discussion with radio host Laura Ingraham today about the reproductive rights organization, he agreed with her that the relationship between African Americans and Planned Parenthood had been a tense one, as the organization employed “the use of abortion to eliminate and limit the number of African Americans.”

Rep. Barney Frank is poised to become the first member of Congress in history to be in a same-sex marriage soon, and while his party, particularly in his home state of Massachusetts, had much to do with the rights of same-sex couples to marry, the chief executive of the Democrats (and the nation) is not invited. The reason, Rep. Frank told C-SPAN? “It would ruin the party to have the Secret Service.”