Camille Dodero · 08/16/13 12:20PM

Spike Lee's vague film project about "human beings who are addicted to blood" has exceeded its $1,250,000 Kickstarter goal. Excellent, now let's resume feeding the hungry children.

Is Roadkill the Next Big American Cuisine?

Camille Dodero · 08/16/13 12:10PM

The New York Times brings us an unusual update on America's growing acceptance of home-cooked roadkill. Earlier this year, Montana's state legislation passed HB 247, the "Roadkill Bill," a measure that allows people to scrape up a car-killed carcass—specifically antelope, deer, elk and moose—and eat the meat for dinner, provided they present the corpse to a peace officer within 24 hours of the animal's death.

GOP Leaders Endorse One Gay Marriage, Anyway

J.K. Trotter · 08/16/13 11:51AM

Gay MSNBC host Thomas Roberts revealed today that a pair of powerful GOP leaders just swooned over his engagement and marriage to Patrick Abner. Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, the chairman and chief spokesman of the Republican National Committee, cheerfully congratulated Roberts in 2011 and 2012, just as the GOP cheerfully touted its aversion to gay people.

Tom Scocca · 08/16/13 11:46AM

More thoughts on PandoDaily's rage eruption: "[N]o one is 'shocked.' People are actually just saying, 'can you believe what a prick this guy is?' That inability to discern between puritanical umbrage at a teller-of-bold-truths and the normal reaction to a repellent personality is just one of the blind spots you develop when you imagine yourself swaggering about in 'the major leagues.'”

Computer Opens Maximum-Security Inmates' Cell Doors All at Once

Tom Scocca · 08/16/13 11:35AM

When all the doors popped open in the maximum-security wing of a Miami prison in June, it was supposedly a computer error. But surveillance video obtained by the Miami Herald showed a group of inmates immediately setting out of their cells on a coordinated attempt to stab an imprisoned gang leader, as if they had planned for the security system to fail when it did. Wired looks into the possibility that the near-miss shanking opportunity was created by a successful hack.

Definitive Proof That Some Sheep Will Protest Anything

Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/16/13 08:04AM

Here it is: Your definitive, irrefutable video evidence that the herds of sheep out there are just looking for a cause to rally around, and that cause could literally be absolutely anything, even random sentences.

Jasper Johns' Longtime Assistant Accused of Stealing $6 Million in Art

Taylor Berman · 08/15/13 08:05PM

A longtime assistant to artist Jasper Johns was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with stealing Johns' artwork. According to federal prosecutors, James Meyer, who worked for Johns for 27 years, took at least 22 unfinished pieces of art from Johns' Connecticut workspace between September 2006 and February 2012, and sold them to a Manhattan art gallery for $6.5 million, $3.4 million of which went to Meyer.