StupidiNews!

• Both sides say they have reached a deal to prevent another government shutdown tonight that includes extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the Medicare "doc fix".
• Writer and atheist Christopher Hitchens has lost his battle with cancer at age 62 after a career writing for both the right and the left.
• The Obama administration has ordered the Treasury to all but halt minting Presidential dollar coins, with some 1.4 billion coins sitting unused in vaults across the country. 
• Farmville creator Zynga will meet its IPO goal, raising a billion dollars in the country's biggest initial stock offering since Google in 2004.
• A federal judge has thrown out a case of Twitter harassment on first amendment grounds citing the right of criticism of a public, religious figure.