You're probably better off if you didn't know that Tabitha Soren, the SuChin Pak of the 90s, is married to Michael Lewis. But they are married, have three kids and live in California.

We find this all unbelievably intriguing since we grew up with MTV news and Lewis's book, Liar's Poker is the only thing we can talk about with bankers.

And lucky for us, Lewis likes to write about their personal life for Slate. At Tab's request, he recently got a vasectomy:

My wife wanted me to be here, and it seemed too transparently selfish to refuse. She'd endured three pregnancies, suffered the pain and indignity of three childbirths, changed most of the diapers, gotten up most of the mornings, and, on top of it all, given me the leisure to write many articles complaining about the inconveniences of fatherhood. The time had come for daddy to take one for the team.

Lesson: Michael Lewis is the ultimate team player, though he admits to some trepidation about having a stranger shave his balls. Weird. More importantly, what did Tabitha make Kurt Loder do back in their Week-In-Rock days?

When “Baby One More Time” came out, we ignored the domestic violence and pop confection undertones and embraced. The lip liner, the dance sequences, the pig tails, we loved it all.

But eight years, two divorces, a million cover of Us Weekly later, who, other than a crazy kid from Tennessee, still believes that Britney’s talent extends beyond her role as a national trainwreck?

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CMJ is the biggest week in independent music in New York. And since MTV is based in New York, it might as well make a perfunctory effort to cover the happenings.

And what a perfunctory effort it is! Today, Mercer Street NYSC regular John Norris interviews that hot new band, Vampire Weekend. You know, the one the New York Times and the New Yorker wrote up months ago.

MTV News would be better off giving up the music pretense and sticking to its strengths. Do you guys have any Heidi and Spencer news?

The leave Britney alone kid can’t deny that Britney should probably leave her kids alone.

In the wake of Kevin Federline’s windfall, Britney’s number one fan, Chris Crocker, told MTV News,

Britney has her whole life ahead of her — she still has time to change. … We're with her. Just because someone is not in the right state of mind to be a mother, that doesn't mean that she is a bad person.

When a guy who has made a career of going into hysterics on YouTube can tell that Britney Spears is not in the right state of mind to be a mother, you know that the best place for Jayden and Sean is with their philandering father.

Sometimes I just have to say, “what the fuck?” and the royal we doesn’t work as well. These are my thoughts—raronauer


Listen, I like MTV. And not just the smart person dumb shows, like The Hills and True Life. I watch, and enjoy, the Real World Challenges.

I don't mind the channel’s shift away from videos either. (Thanks YouTube!) While all those documentaries about AIDS in the early 90s definitely scared me straight, voyeuristic reality TV is so much more entertaining. Besides, the kids today seem to be too busy getting text message updates about their MySpace page to know what they’re missing.

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There are five stories on John Edwards on MTVNews.com right now. Featured prominently is an interview between Edwards and former America’s Next Top Model Contestant, Kim Stolz aka as the hot lesbian.

Vice Presidential hopefuls and reality TV stars are like roaches: They never die.

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