Ex-Pizza Hut president and savior Mike Rawlings became top chef of Dallas on Saturday, because pizza-oriented politicians are trendy these days. Rawlings, who's also been a czar of homelessness, beat a former police chief. [Image via AP.]

Today Pastor Mark Driscoll and his congregation of "blind lemmings" at Seattle's Mars Hill church are expecting a visit from the Westboro Baptist Church, whose members call Mars Hill a "Whore House" (for search engine optimization purposes, probably). In honor of Westboro's visit, Driscoll's planned a little party.

Poor Amy Winehouse! The constantly-troubled singer kicked off her European tour in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday with, well, this, which is hardly a positive sign. Winehouse reportedly spent a week in rehab earlier this year; unsurprisingly, it wasn't long enough. [via WSJ]

Citing the Biblical chapter titled "Hazard, Kentucky's Municipal Code," a city employee kicked out two gay men with intellectual and developmental disabilities after observing them engaged in "an excessive display of affection." Now the employee's been suspended, and the pool's slated to become the least-affectionate in America.

Crystal Harris goes to the pool with Heidi Montag. Frankie Muniz runs for office. Kirstie Alley annoys people on the train. Sunday gossip is a runaway bride.

The lesser two of the parents holidays (let's be serious) befalls the nation once more today, and given that it's Father's Day, not Mother's Day, that we're talking about here, you probably haven't gotten a gift yet. Which you should do! But be careful. Certain gifts say certain things you might not be aware of.

How would you like it if your TV could fart? It sounds absurd, but that's what's on the table with Samsung's latest revival of the Smell-O-Vision concept. And this time the tech looks real enough that it might happen. [Gizmodo]

Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, the "Big Man" of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died on Saturday of complications from a stroke he suffered earlier this month.

How has The Adjustment Bureau affected future Philip K. Dick movie adaptations? What's going on with Michel Gondry's Ubik? We chatted with the daughter of the legendary author, Isa Dick Hackett, about the secrets of filming Philip K. Dick. [io9]

Three out-of-town spectators at an old-timey cowboy bang-bang demonstration in Hill City, S.D. were hospitalized on Friday night after being shot with either for-real bullets or maybe-blanks. Police aren't sure yet! They're still investigating. Please be patient.

For reasons of vital national importance, President Obama and Speaker of House Rep. John Boehner had a foursome today with Vice President Biden and Ohio Governor John Kasich. A golf foursome. What did you think we meant?

You know those days where nothing seems to go right? And nothing you do seems to fix the problem? BBC Scotland is having one of those days, poor thing. It's okay, guys! No one knows what Rudolph Hess looks like, anyway. And who cares about the weather forecast? It's Scotland! The forecast is: Cloudy! With a chance of fried stuff!

Rand Paul's dad beat all the other Republican presidential candidates in today's demonstration of RLC democracy. The rest, in order: the mystical hunter, Crazy Eyes, Pizza Mogul, Mittens, The Vacationer, Sarah Palin, Matching-Doll Dad, and the Googler. [Image via AP]

Chris Crocker became the voice of a generation by recording a video of himself sobbing underneath a blanket and exhorting "you people" to "leave Britney [Spears] alone." And now, blond locks shorn, Crocker is reportedly embarking on the next phase of his career: Porn.

On last night's Real Time, Bill Maher said a lot. He made fat jokes about secret-hoarding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, compared Michele Bachmann to Sarah Palin, took a final taste of Weiner, and more. But none of that matters, because this clip—which features Maher's joyously jarring 30-second summation of HLN loudmouth Nancy Grace—is the only one worth watching.

The Burschenschaften are secretive, mostly-male German student groups whose members wear 19th-century outfits, hold beer-drinking and sword-fighting contests, and prove their manhood via facial scars. This week they've been making headlines because of some leaked documents that shed light on the racist views held by many of their leaders.

"This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason." - Christopher Hitchens, opening his review of David Mamet's The Secret Knowledge.

You know how you lose something, and then decades later a random woman hunts you down to tell you that her brother, a priest who died recently, had been in possession of your missing thing for all these years? This has been happening to a lot of people lately.

As if the tragic ballad of Anthony Weiner and Twitter couldn't get any weirder: Some unknown persons invented fake identities as high school girls on Twitter, and used those accounts in an effort to dig up dirt on Anthony Weiner—in the process fooling at least one journalist.

James Edward Russell successfully escaped from the minimum-security Olympic Corrections Center in Washington state and made it 14 whole miles before his dependence upon technology got the best of him. Wearing a bright red prison uniform didn't help him, either.