By now, you're probably aware that Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, gave birth to a son over the weekend, a seven-pound, four-ounce bundle of joy rather majestically named Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.
By naming her son Tripp, Bristol kept in line with the men of the Palin clan (her father is named Todd, and she's got brothers named Track and Trig), and while lil' Tripp's namesake can't match the sheer WTF-ness of, say, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, we're still big fans of the handle. After all, it not only recalls the windswept vistas of Alaska's north — and "American Psycho" author Bret Easton Ellis — but it also makes him sound like a character in "Dazed and Confused" ("Tripp Johnston ... Alright, alright, alright!"). Read More...
We're not so arrogant as to think that the McCain and Palin spend their downtime reading the Newsroom blog. We know they're busy and all. So, maybe they didn't read our story earlier this week about how '80s rockers 
For years, many of us at MTV News headquarters have been lamenting (OK, complaining ad nauseam) that the music community has been way too tame in protesting the sorry state of our world. Sure, acts like Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Green Day, the Dixie Chicks, Nas and Pearl Jam have released protest songs and said things from the stage that have either gotten them censored (Pearl Jam at the 
The Fort Sanders, Tennessee, apartment of 20-year-old David Kernell was the subject of an early-morning search on Sunday, as FBI agents looked for clues that might connect the University of Tennessee student to the hacking of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account last week. Kernell, the son of Democratic State Representative Mike Kernell, has not been charged with any crime in the case, which involved the public posting of mostly private e-mails. However, agents spent several hours photographing everything in the apartment and issued subpoenas to Kernell's three roommates to appear in court this week.