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According to court records, in 1988 a 16-year-old Mr Wahlberg brutally attacked a Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam with a stick while spewing racial epithets and knocking him unconscious. Seeing police, Mr Wahlberg fled and found Hoa Trinh, another Vietnamese man. He put his hand around Mr Trinh's shoulder and asked the man to help him hide. After the police cars had passed, Mr Wahlberg punched Mr Trinh in the eye, permanently blinding him. According to the police report, during his arrest the future actor used several anti-Asian slurs. He served 45 days of a three-month sentence, all while maintaining...

Cultural trends are often said to “jump the shark” when they go too far and become laughable or obsolete. The White House is in this territory with its desperate—desperate—marketing of Obamacare. Today, Lance Bass—a member of the boy band *NSYNC, which was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s—tweeted that he was “entering the White House to meet w the President to discuss health care reform.” He added a website address: “HealthCare.org.” Politically active Twitter users quickly mocked this high-level meeting and the fact that the pop star of yesteryear didn’t even know he was supposed to be pointing...

IDEA MAN: "Boy, I wish I'd thought up shooting pop stars into outer space," says my pal, The Idea Man. "Only $20 million US to get rid of NSYNC's Lance Bass? Cheap at twice the price." "His Russian space shot is probably off," I grump. "No chequee, no tripee." "They picked the wrong guy," shrugs Idea Man. "You could raise $20 million in an afternoon to shoot Mariah Carey into space. Michael Jackson, any of those smug kids on American Idol. Cash in the kitty, buddy. Light the torch. Goodbye, Mary Lou. Never see 'em again." "I think it's a...