Blog Posts by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

A gang of hooligans. (ThinkStock Photos)

Cats are having a Britney Spears moment. After a few years of being the hottest thing on the Internet, they're now being blamed for everything wrong in the world.

Why is everyone hating on cats? Some guy in New Zealand wants them banned from his country. Some other guy in England says they're destroying the planet. And now a study in the U.S. has earned cats the title of "cold blooded killers."

All because--get this--cats kill birds. We already knew this from cartoons. The shocking thing here is that cats are much better at getting the job done than we realized. Our massive street cat population may be responsible for wiping out up to 3.7 billion birds a year--that's 15 percent of the country's bird population, according to research published Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature Communications. On a grand scale that could cause a damaging environmental ripple effect.

One solution is to lock the roaming street cats up and cut down on the 80 million wild felines

Great news, guys: only 150 more episodes until we start recognizing people! In the meantime, here's what you missed from week four of "The Bachelor." -Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

Jennifer Lawrence's dress: stepping not recommended. (Youtube/Getty Images)You know when you find that dress that's just perfect and you're standing in front of a dressing room mirror and everyone is like "You have to get it!" and you're like "Does it matter that I have to hold it together when I move?" and everyone is like "No! It'll be fine. No one will notice!"

I imagine that's what happened with Jennifer Lawrence when she selected that navy Dior satin floor-length gown for the SAG Awards. It was billowing and classic at the bottom, sleek and strapless at the top and really weird in the middle, especially when she moved.

When the actress stepped to the podium to receive her SAG Award for Outstanding Female Actress, the gown appeared to split in half just above her thighs. The moment "drew gasps" from the audience--according to one newspaper's possibly melodramatic account--and was quickly turned into a viral blooper for all the world to see first thing Monday morning. Did Jennifer Lawrence really just live the teenage nightmare of being semi-naked on

This week, the list of things you shouldn't bring on a plan was expanded to include Mandy Patinkin monologues. A man wearing a t-shirt imprinted with one of the best lines in cinema history ("My Name is Inigo Montoya...") scared passengers on an international flight half to death. Obviously it's time for a worldwide re-screening of "The Princess Bride." It's also time to reconsider that joke t-shirt you were planning to wear to the airport. It may be not as comfortable for your fellow passengers as it is for you.

--Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

In the event that you need to build a replica of Lady Gaga out of sugar, you should probably consult with someone who's done it before. That would be Jay Murphy, the owner of Arizona's Kick Ass Kakes bakery and the mad genius who constructed an 180-pound human-shaped confection to herald the pop star's arrival in Phoenix for a series of concert dates. If this doesn't get him a backstage pass, there is no justice.

Today I discovered an awesome question on a parenting forum: "The sideways peace sign and puckered lips: what is the meaning of this hand signal? My daughter and her friends all do this on Facebook. I asked her and even she doesn't what it means." Turns out no one really could provide this confused mom with an answer--not even her daughter. Do people even know why they do it or when they're doing it? It never really mattered until Monday night, when Sasha and Malia Obama, the nation's first kids flashed the symbol. Now everyone under 30, even those who've never made that sideways peace sign for photos, are going to have to field questions about it. Here's a handy explainer to refer to if someone won't take "I don't know" for an answer. --Piper Weiss, Shine Staff

A photo posted by Jenelle on Twitter after her breakup with her last fiancé in June. (Twitter)
There are some trending search terms we've come to rely on: "asteroid" "antidepressants" and "Jenelle Evans." This week alone, Yahoo! searches for the "Teen Mom 2" star are up 26% with searches for Jenelle's Twitter account—her online journal of up-to-the-minute drama—spiking by 23%.

You'll understand why if you follow the 20-year-old pregnant reality star's hourly updates. On Tuesday she tweeted: "I am getting a divorce, ASAP. YOU F--ING LEAVE OUT OF TOWN AND I MIGHT BE HAVING A MISCARRIGE?! F--- U." Only a few days before she engaged in a public battle on Twitter with Courtland Rogers, her husband of 52 days. A few tweets before that, she was in love with Rogers and eating a grilled cheese from her "honey." In her recent Twitter history there are photos of a wedding ring, a pregnant belly, a paternity test, an a tearful self-portrait after calling off an engagement a completely different guy in June.

Even as this story was being written, more Jenelle drama was welling up. By

Did you watch "The Bachelor" last night? Okay, but did you happen to catch these moments? --Piper Weiss, Shine Staff