Summer can terrible for those stuck in the city. The air stinks of tourist's sweaty sunblock residue, all the good-looking, rich locals are at beach houses you could never afford, and your 4th floor walk-up is barbarically under air-conditioned. However, if you take this short survey, you could win this portable gas grill—the perfect preemptive way to make the dog days of summer less doggy. Drag it to your roof/ fire escape/ abandoned lot down the block, and you'll be flipping burgers and pretending you where somewhere else in no time!

Police in Bangkok yesterday arrested a man who had in his possession six roasted fetuses aged two to seven months. It was unclear how they were initially obtained.

Here are the simple facts: 14 year-old Ryan Hart of Jackson, Michigan was finishing up his Arby's roast beef sandwich last week when he bit into an non-traditional ingredient—"The fleshy, severed pad of an unfortunate employee's finger." It had been sliced off in a meat slicer. These things happen.

A Kentucky-based jeweller looking to earn some emergency karma came up with a get-clean-quick scheme while shopping at a local liquidating Kmart.

You say "where's the safety equipment," but I say "safety equipment? Pfft. Safety equipment is for men who don't open their beers with a chainsaw."

Patrick Gonzalez, a middle schooler from San Antonio was threatened with an in-school suspension after coming to class with his hair full of beautiful artwork earlier this week.

When asked to name some things Charlize Theron had as a child, you might say "exposure to apartheid," "an abusive, alcoholic father," or "an extensive knowledge of classical ballet techniques."

The Foreign Ministry of Iran threatened to pursue legal action against Google Thursday over an issue it has regarding Google Maps.

This Sunday, a New York auction house is offering up the perfect gift for the eccentric billionaire in your life: a complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataaris, an equally tyrannical Asian cousin of the North American T. rex, (according to LiveScience).

Looks like The Wiggles have finally given up on your children. The BBC reports that three of the four founding members announced their retirement Thursday.

At a press conference in Jacksonville today, Mitt Romney said he rejected a plan presented by GOP strategists to a Super PAC funded by Cubs-owning billionaire Joe Ricketts aimed at "defeating" President Obama by rehashing his ties to controversial reverend Jeremiah Wright.

The death by hanging yesterday of Mary Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Jr.'s second wife, brings the total number of premature deaths in the extended Kennedy clan—including two of President John F. Kennedy's infant children—to 11. By contrast, the official count of current and former members of the Dead Kennedys stands at nine.

In Shameless creator Paul Abbott's new TV series Hit & Miss, Chloë Sevigny plays a pre-op transsexual contract assassin with a love child. Asked what about becoming her character she found most challenging, Sevigny replied: Putting on her prosthetic genitalia.

Hortlax Cobra is the dance project from Peter Bjorn and John's John Eriksson (not to be confused with Smile, the new side project from Peter Bjorn and John's Björn Yttling). Here's a perfect example of the reach of "I Feel Love": the way the arpeggiated bass line propels and steers this track is pure Moroder and unmistakably so no matter how mumbly the indie vocals get. Stylistically, this is nicely balanced.

Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans. The pitch was denied, but not for any real reason. "That one might be a bit, uh, hard," is all my editor said. I'd later come to find out that he was merely sheltering me from his ultra-Christian executive editor, who would never let a piece questioning religion run in the magazine.

TV networks are pissed about a new DVR that can automatically skip over all ads in recorded content, no fast-forwarding necessary. Ha, fuck them, right? Fuck TV ads, right? Okay, well. I hope you love product placement and want to marry it.

Political campaigns try to come off as tight, well-oiled election-winning machines. But everyone knows that behind the campaign buttons and pantsuits is an ugly, chaotic process marred by scandal and way, way, too much money. So naturally, you want to watch.

Last night's Toddlers & Tiaras featured the 8-year-old Lacey-Mae, who has achondroplasia, a bone disorder that causes dwarfism. She's about the size of a three- or four-year-old, cute as a button and accepted in the pageant world, if her trophies and ability to elicit on-camera gushing from judges are any indication. Lacey-Mae's mom says she puts her kid in pageants "for her self-esteem," and while that seems like it could only be the outcome of a scenario that ends in victory, Lacey-Mae is a lot more happy go lucky than most kids on this show and her mom is less abrasive. It's also a very strange leveling-out dynamic, since kiddie pageants are all about dressing children to look older than their years, while Lacey-Mae inherently looks younger.

As tied up as we are in waiting for legislation to catch up with our humanity, being a gay man can be supremely liberating. This is especially so on a behavioral level. (I assume this is similar for queer people of all and/or no genders, but I'm just speaking from experience here.) To be at peace with your queerness is to allow yourself to do whatever the fuck. We're not really expected to adhere to the heteronormative confines of masculinity, so why should we? Getting over the fear of being called a faggot really opens up the possibilities of how you represent yourself – you can be as masculine and/or as feminine as you are and/or see fit at a moment's notice. We still have to mind our environment (so, like, ease up on the lip liner in Uganda), but given the right place, we are freer than most.