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- George W. Bush apparently is a "hipster icon" now, according to Vanity Fair.
- Fourteen staff members were injured after a fire broke out at Rikers Island.
- Cory Booker tweeted about the new Beyonce while presiding over the Senate.
- Even olds have roommates these days.
- Is this the biggest snail on Earth?
- A woman's rights advocate only pays her babysitter $3/hour.
- Here are all the easter eggs and tidbits from Beyonce's new music videos.
- Go inside the weird world of Lisa Frank.
- The Seinfeld scribe who wrote the Festivus episode thinks conservatives are being ridiculous about Festivus pole protests.
- An NYPD officer gave a shivering homeless man the sweatshirt off his back this morning near the UN—and the Post has a photo of it.
- And finally, here's a blind Dachshund who loves to paint:
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