I never quite understood the stigma against bisexual men. (There is one, especially among gay men.)

Atlantic Cities points to an amazing Urban Institute mapping tool that lets you see where poor people lived, by race, in every American city in 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. Answer: Basically everywhere.

This gem is thanks to ShortFormBlog's coverage of the abortion protests being waged at the Texas Capitol today.

Antonio Lopez Chaj was awarded $58 million by a jury today after a beating by a bar security guard left him with a skull his attorney described as, "like a pie with 25 percent cut out of it."

The practice of Zen may be intimidating to newcomers. Interpretation of Zen koans— the often perplexing stories used to test a student's insight—can be confusing and discouraging. In order to facilitate general enlightenment, we will periodically assist in koan explanation.

Internet troll Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer currently sits in federal prison for using publicly accessible information on a public website to piss off the giant corporation that published the information. This is an injustice. But in a promising move, a legal team including one of the most respected cyberlaw experts in the country has just filed an appeal.

Irish lawmakers today voted overwhelmingly in support of a bill that would clearly allow abortions to save the mother's life, but only in those instances. The Texas GOP looked on with a great and furious envy.

Women be cheating on their husbands 40% more than they did 20 years ago.

Lindsay Morgan (née Dee) Lohan turns 27 today. She is passing the day quietly, in rehab.

One rarely accumulates a net worth of $1.9 billion without breaking the rules. Repeatedly. IAC chairman Barry Diller has agreed to pay $480,000 in civil penalties for anti-trust violations related to his purchase of voting shares in Coca-Cola from 2010 to 2012.

The deranged jerks at Sticky's Finger Joint are now being sued by a former employee, who alleges that her boss tricked her into consuming mushrooms, while asking her to try out a new recipe.

Avril Lavigne and the guy from Nickelback got married this weekend in France at a location so undisclosed, not even the invited guests could rip the clothes off that location and discover where it was the day before they were due to be there.

Does the layabout "Millennial" generation, composed primarily of— not to engage in reductive stereotyping—greedy little sellouts, have any redeeming qualities whatsoever? Perhaps.

Spoiler alert alert: A spoiler alert follows. It itself may be too revealing. My suggestion is to stop reading this post and start reading Karen Joy Fowler's novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves like now.

Richard Heene did not mean to utter the words. The 51-year-old manager of the Heene Boyz, an unsigned metal band comprising his three home-schooled sons, was recounting how one Christmas years ago, he was so broke that he'd had to design an ingenious sort of wooden building system, fabricated from $35 worth of materials, for his children's present.

The guitar player from Chavez profiles his friend Jason Everman, who went from playing guitar in Nirvana to playing bass in Soundgarden to killing people in the Army Special Forces, in the New York Times Magazine.

Beloved Reading Rainbow/Star Trek star LeVar Burton says he has a ritual to avoid getting shot when being pulled over by police. He removes his hat and sunglasses, rolls down his car window, and puts his hands out to show he's not armed. "I do that because I live in America," he says.

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Private equity firms have discovered an exciting new strategy for screwing their investors over (more than usual).

It's 2013 and Guantanamo Bay is still open, insanely. Newly released Army documents obtained by Gawker shed light on life inside America's most infamous prison, where classified documents are burned in coffee cans, American guards are converted to Islam by the suspected terrorists they watch over, and wily detainees wage their own counterintelligence campaigns.