I never saw this coming:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a staunch gun advocate, says tighter weapons regulations might be "appropriate" to prevent another tragedy like the Arizona mass shootings that left six people dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded.

Cheney, an avid hunter, said he is "willing to listen to ideas" on how to better control the purchase and use of firearms.

"Whether or not there's some measure there in terms of limiting the size of the magazine that you can buy to go with a semiautomatic weapon — we’ve had that in place before. Maybe it’s appropriate to re-establish that kind of thing, but I think you do have to be careful obviously," Cheney told NBC's Jamie Gangel, national correspondent for "TODAY."

Love it: Fiddler on the Roof gets served.

Grab your children and your cameras, as World War III is on the way for 2011.

• Illustration Ryn Gargulinski

At least that’s one of the predictions that kept popping up while researching the 10 worst things in store for the new year.

Psychic Linda Monroe, who claimed to have predicted a plane flying into a “Major City and lots of falling debree” on Sept. 11 and the equally accurate “death of a famous British male actor in 2001,” even says the next world war will involve weapons that shoot out “microwave type beams.”

Eek. We’ve all seen what happens to Peeps in the microwave. Imagine what happens to people.

But that’s OK, as Catholic Planet says at least the Big Apple will be spared from being microwaved as New York City is instead going to be hit by a nuclear bomb.

To make matters even scarier, the nuclear bomb attack is likely to be controlled by computer hackers, who already mussed up some Iranian top-secret stuff.

Yes, hackers and their malicious computer viruses will hit the 2011 scene with a vengeance, says MSNBC.com, going for bigger and more widespread mayhem. Reducing our personal little machines to expensive paperweights, like one did to my laptop last month, was just child’s play.

Computers are not the only thing that will be felled by viruses, as a sickness and death promises to infect living things as well.

Scientists never go on record that these hairless discoveries—mostly in Texas, and now Kentucky—are, in fact, chupacabras.

OK, fine, but why don't they explain this apparent increase in bald raccoons or coyotes with some nasty, nasty mange?

"We three kings of Bacon are / Bearing gifts we roasted afar."

Source here.

Seriously, Sen. Pearce, don't you think there's just a little too much levity going around right now when it comes to Arizona, your friendships with neo-Nazis and the private prison industry, and laws that just make our economy only sink more in the desert-rat hole you and your "lawmaking" friends have created?

According to a CBS news report:

Brandy broke down in tears. Dancer Derek Hough was slackjawed. Judge Bruno Tonioli leapt to his feet and urged audience members to vote.

But the most violent reaction of all to Tuesday night's "Dancing With the Stars" results show came from a 67-year-old Wisconsin man, so enraged over Bristol Palin's performance that he blasted his TV with a shotgun, leading to an overnight standoff with a SWAT team.

Mr. Cowan, you are obviously having a crisis of some sort, but The Range has to agree with your criticism, and understands what drove you to take a pistol to your TV. Cowan told police he felt Bristol wasn't a good dancer and was only kept on the show because of her famous mother.

Two things that made me happy today:

1. That Family Feud (much improved with Steve Harvey as the host, for what it's worth) has a YouTube account.

2. This clip from the aforementioned YouTube account. I'd like to think this guy was going to use that answer no matter what the question was.

Personally, if I had my choice of video games based on Paul Thomas Anderson movies, I might choose Magnolia (Dodge the falling frogs! Try to get the money for your corrective oral surgery!), but this would do, I suppose.

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