Clay Aiken is a bored, rich person so he might as well consider running for office. That, according to the Washington Blade, is precisely an idea the 35-year-old singer has started to put in motion in recent months. From American Idol winner to... the gay Al Franken?

"Paul Krugman is off today," wrote the saddest editor in the entire world.

[Here, via AccuWeather, is exactly how much the Northeast will be fucked tomorrow by the winter storm that is moving east across the country. Boston, as always, is the worst.]

Ezra Klein may be preparing to leave the Washington Post after the Post's publisher, Katherine Weymouth, and owner, Jeff Bezos, failed to support Klein's idea for a new WaPo site dedicated to topics outside of political policy. A source told the New York Times Klein was asking for an eight-figure investment.

In 2012, rich conservatives spent billions of dollars in order to defeat Barack Obama, and if that didn't work at least a bunch of Democratic congressional candidates. It was a stunning waste of money: Mitt Romney conceded before midnight and Republicans lost eight seats in the House and two in the Senate. But they aren't stopping anytime soon.

A recent Slate blog post contains the following correction:

Alcohol plays a large role in everyone's life. We use it to clean our many wounds, and we add certain percentages of the stuff to our gasoline, within certain states where that's required by regulations. Some of us even drink alcohol, for pleasure or otherwise. But you can count me out of that last group. For all of this year, so far, I have been "on the wagon."

David and Andrew had never met before last week. In fact, they used to live in completely different states.

We are truly living in the golden age of internet commerce. After several break-ins and organ thefts from a former mental hospital, police searched high and low only to find that the stolen goods had been sold on eBay. Isn't the free market great?

Geez, Dubya, call your mom already.

A teen boy upset with a female classmate for unfriending him on Facebook reportedly threw a pot of boiling water in the girl's face after holding both her and her mother hostage inside their own home.

Though it's as chic as a marching band and demands that you do that dorky dance along to it (a dance without any acknowledgement of one's hips, no less), perhaps you are like me and find the Village People's 1978 disco anthem "Y.M.C.A." endearing anyway. A feat of subversion that is still routinely played at the heterosexual pride-oriented outings better known as sporting events, the song has kids from 2 to 92 obliviously pantomiming letters along to barely veiled lyrics that tell of public man-on-man butt sex in the insanely debauched pre-AIDS era. In terms of gay culture penetrating the mainstream without the mainstream's knowledge, "Y.M.C.A." stands virtually alone in its reach and stealthiness (though Madonna's "Vogue" comes close—ball culture reached as far as Stephanie Tanner).

Republican opinions on evolution are devolving: In 2009, 54 percent of GOP voters told pollsters "humans and other living things have evolved over time." In 2013, only 43 percent believed the same thing. By 2103, a majority of conservatives will be really into crafting rudimentary wood tools for foraging.

Last month (as we did last year), we sent letters to all of the U.S. death row inmates who have execution dates in the upcoming year. Today, we have our first reply: Ray Jasper, who is scheduled to be put to death in Texas in March.

Last year, the stock market rose to its all-time high, where it still sits. The S&P 500 index was up almost 30%—the best performance in decades. Still, most Americans view stocks as an inferior investment to magic beans.

A Bloomington, Indiana, woman who found her soulmate on New Year's Eve is searching high and low for the missing Casanova who neglected to leave behind his contact information before disappearing into the night shortly after peeing on her leg.

Happy New Year! Are you ready for the year's first major snowstorm? Good! Because blizzard-like conditions are expected to hit the Midwest and Northeast tonight and Friday morning, affecting as many 100 million people.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, formerly known as Nicholas D. Kristof, who took the time to write a special blog post about his decision to stop publishing his middle initial ("D."), now mourns the frivolity of people reading the item that he decided to write.

You may recognize Justin Jedlica from any of his dozens of TV appearances — his surgery-sculpted face is hard to forget. That, along with the rest of his body (the result of 125 cosmetic procedures in total), has earned him the nickname of the Human Ken Doll. He was profiled in detail on TLC's special My Strange Addiction: I'm a Living Doll last night, on which he described his ongoing surgeries as his "creative outlet." In the clip above, he attempts to creative direct one of them. It's for ab implants. He's previously described his strange addiction as "an art form." We live in a time when all you have to do to make art is label something art, so he at least has a case.