Actor Mel Gibson entered rehab after his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence and being an anti-Semitic douche bag.

Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the troubled Big Dig construction project as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he didn't know anyone would be offended by the term some consider a racial epithet.

In a speech Saturday, Romney, a Republican considering a run for president in 2008, acknowledged he took a big political risk in taking control of the project after a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse, but said inaction would have been even worse.

"The best thing politically would be to stay as far away from that tar baby as I can," he told a crowd of about 100 supporters in Ames, Iowa.

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Oh, sweet, sweet banana, you know the rainbow means nothing to me!

Tild~ and I in a Wege-ified Clerks II battle of the "Returns"...

Carl M. Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy diver, died Tuesday at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth of respiratory and heart failure. Brashear joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of 17, not long after the U.S. military desegregated. In 1954, he was accepted and graduated from the diving program, but in 1966, as he was attempting to recover a hydrogen bomb that dropped into the waters off of Spain, his left leg was injured and was later amputated. Brashear began a grueling training program that included diving, running and calisthenics, in an effort to remain on active duty. In 1970, after completing 600- to 1,000-foot-deep dives while being evaluated at the Experimental Diving Unit in Washington, D.C., Brashear became a master diver. Brashear retired from the Navy in 1979 after more than 30 years of service. Brashear was portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the 2000 film "Men of Honor," co-starring Robert DeNiro. Brashear was 75.

Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Pharyngula, here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
2. I've Got The Bull... (Live) - BR549
3. Cocaine Blues - Merle Travis
4. Bam Bam - Toots & the Maytals
5. This Sale Is Going To Blow Your Mind - Parry Gripp
6. Satin Sheets - Fort Wilson Riot
7. Jah Work - Ben Harper
8. My Funny Valentine - Elvis Costello
9. Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
10. Paradise (Wherever You Are) - Neil Finn & Friends

Tell me yours!