In The News

[Content note: rape, homophobia, racism, police harrassment, violence]

All The News In Fits and Spurts:

Convicted child rapist Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to not less than 30 years and no more than 60 years in prison with credit for time served.

Paul Ryan goes Galt: The veep contender walked out of an interview yesterday when asked how lowering taxes would solve gun violence in U.S. Also, Paul Ryan is kind of a racist.

Charlie Fuqua, Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives, believes we need to enact the death penalty for rebellious children. Really. He said that. Good christ.

Sriracha is the new bacon. See: Sriracha ice cream sandwiches.

This narwhal is all that stands between us and penguin world domination!

When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer. "He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler." What a creep.

The antigay Liberty Counsel filed a civil rights lawsuit on Thursday against California's recently passed law banning "reparative therapy" that attempts to turn gay children straight. Of course they did.

Still with this bullshit? Michigan state representative Tom McMillin says that being gay is a choice.

The swimming trunks Daniel Craig wore as Bond in Casino Royale sold for close to $72K at a charity auction in London. Obviously.

What happens when you add Schaefer Beer to a Moog Synthesizer? You get an awesome commercial!

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