Adam Weinstein · 06/17/14 12:42PM

"I'm more Jewish than you think I am," Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) tells the New York Times Magazine. "I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people." This works in much the same way that reading Atlas Shrugged makes railroad tycoons of us all.

Miss Colorado Contestant Stripped of Her Title Is Now Making More Porn

Adam Weinstein · 06/17/14 11:50AM

Back in January, we related the saga of Kristy Althaus, a promising young college student and runner-up in the Trump-owned Miss Colorado Teen USA beauty pageant. She had apparently been stripped of her title for appearing in an online porn video. She now appears to be making porn a career.

Obama Tries to Distract From Benghazi by Capturing Benghazi Suspect

Adam Weinstein · 06/17/14 11:30AM

Not content to let truth-minded conservatives do their job, the White House made a wild attempt to pre-empt congressional scrutiny of its Benghazi failures by catching one of the architects of the Benghazi attack in a daring nighttime raid.

OK Go's New Optical Illusion Video Will Trompe Your L'oeil

Jay Hathaway · 06/17/14 11:22AM

Video production company/rock band OK Go have followed up their famous treadmills and Rube Goldberg machine by running through a maze of brightly-colored optical illusions in a single shot. Everything in the video for "The Writing's on the Wall" is a trick of the eye.

Crazy Prepper on the Loose in Florida After Feds Fail to Catch Him

Adam Weinstein · 06/17/14 10:35AM

Police and FBI agents are searching this morning for a doomsday prepper who slipped out of their grasp through the woods of Central Florida as they searched his property for assault weapons and explosives allegedly intended to put a murderous doomsday plan into motion.

Thatz Not Okay: Can a Man Poop in a Lake?

Caity Weaver · 06/17/14 10:25AM

My husband has a wonderful family and we all get along swimmingly. His parents own a boat and often invite us on it for a day on the lake and an annual vacation where we boat all day and only return to our rented beachfront to sleep. I am a very lucky daughter in law and sharing the boat is just one example of the loving generosity my in-laws show, with no strings attached. One of my guy's immediate family members will almost like clockwork paddle off twenty feet when we are anchored and swimming to poop in the water. It seems to be a family joke or tradition since the habit started when he was young, but he is now an adult. I adore him, but whenever I see him swim back with that little secretive smile I scramble back on the boat as fast as I can while not bringing attention to myself. Once I know it is there I can't bear to be in the water, even though the water is probably contaminated more than I think.

The Clintons Support Estate Taxes, Avoid Estate Taxes

Hamilton Nolan · 06/17/14 10:24AM

America has treated the Clinton family pretty well. They've become millionaires many times over. But a new report says that even as they support policies to tax the estates of the extreme wealthy, they try to avoid those taxes on their own wealth.

Heritage Foundation Panelists Mock Muslim Student During Benghazi Q&A

Allie Jones · 06/17/14 10:00AM

On Monday, the Heritage Foundation held a panel to discuss — what else — the September 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. embassy facilities in Benghazi, Libya. When a Muslim law student identified herself as such and asked how the U.S. can fight an "ideological" war against radical Islam with weapons, ACT! America's Brigitte Gabriel responded by comparing Muslims to Nazis.

Sherlock Holmes Now Belongs to Everyone, Court Rules

Michelle Dean · 06/17/14 08:55AM

Good news for those of you who have been longing to shop your Jane Austen/Sherlock Holmes mashup you've got in a drawer to book publishers: The Seventh Circuit has now ruled that the character of Sherlock Holmes is (mostly) in the public domain.