Stephen Colbert took some time last night to address the phenomenon that is the conservative media’s apparent support of gold: Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly all shill for gold as a good investment. “Conservative talk and gold” says Colbert, “go together like Obama and a Hitler moustache.” Youch!

The decade got off to such a nice start, didn’t it? At the stroke of midnight, as the nines turned into zeroes, our millennial fears were allayed by magnums of champagne and an army of Silicon Alley wizards. Cities around the globe twinkled with the light of an infinity of camera flashes. It was all [...]

So it’s the day before Halloween, and you don’t have a costume. What to do? Fortunately, Mediaite has come up with some costume suggestions for you. Pulled straight from the headlines, these are guaranteed to be hits:

Blackface has somehow worked its way into the headlines twice over the past week. The October edition of French Vogue features a model with her face and body painted black. Harry Connick, Jr. called international attention to Australia when he protested a blackfaced skit on a variety show. Coincidence, or part of a larger trend?

“Nostalgia,” said Don Draper to the hushed and darkened room. “It’s delicate, but potent…Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone.” Then he convinced a roomful of clients that calling it a Carousel might actually reinvent the wheel. Suckers!

We can’t speed time up and make it Sunday at 10 p.m. any faster than the Lord or Matthew Weiner willeth, but we can pull together a few videos that will slake your mighty thirst, momentarily.