Ask the DNC: Is Romney Ready for the Kill List?

John Cook · 09/07/12 11:25AM

As you may have heard last night, Osama bin Laden is dead, has perished from the earth, is at the bottom of the sea, and is not better off than he was four years ago. The Democrats are trying to pull a Bush on national security, inflating Obama's reputation as a killing machine and portraying Mitt Romney as a bungling softie.

Anonymous Dribbles Out More Information On 'FBI' Hack

Adrian Chen · 09/07/12 10:20AM

Post-tutu, Anonymous has released a new statement about their "FBI laptop" hack. It's typically rambling and contains no real evidence that the million Apple device IDs (known as UDIDs) that Anonymous leaked earlier this week were found on an FBI laptop, as they claim.

Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children

Cord Jefferson · 09/07/12 09:30AM

It's not easy to listen to Terry talk about the time he had sex with a seven-year-old girl. But after his psychotherapist put us in touch, he agreed to lay it all out for me during a phone call and email, and I was enthralled the way one might stare at a man falling from a bridge. Terry is 38, a small-business owner, and deeply religious—he ends all our correspondence by saying, "Blessings to you, Cord"—but back then when it happened Terry was 20 and a meth head. He was living with his then-wife, his marriage to whom had made him the co-guardian of her two nieces and a nephew. The one niece was a baby, but the other was seven, and it wasn't long before Terry, addicted and in a marriage he calls "abusive," fell for his niece and began a sexual relationship with her.

Taylor Berman · 09/06/12 11:45PM

Ten protesters were arrested during the DNC's final day, bringing the total number of arrests for the convention to 25.

How Fucked Up Was Ke$ha at the VMAs?

Rich Juzwiak · 09/06/12 09:12PM

I'm sure you did the responsible, adult thing and watched the DNC all night, but while you were doing that the MTV Video Music Awards were on and I watched them because that is my life. They were so stupid. MTV literally let Taylor Swift finish and she did some weird musical theater number to accompany "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Rihanna and Katy Perry sat next to each other and muttered shit-talk in each other's ears all night. Chris Brown won an award. Nicki Minaj asked someone, "Want gum?" and dressed like La Toya Jackson dressed like a clown.