The Campaign Manager Who Beat Eric Cantor Just Deleted His Facebook

Adam Weinstein · 06/11/14 04:20PM

Boys will be boys. Zachary Werrell, 23, is just a boy who happens to be running the campaign of the tea partier who upset House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in last night's Virginia congressional primary. A boy who, like so many others, suddenly realized his Facebook rants could be a liability.

J.K. Trotter · 06/11/14 03:11PM

Ayn Rand scholar Dave Brat, who just trounced House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia primary, did not attend Princeton. In fact, he attended the Princeton Theological Seminary, which is separate from the Ivy League university. Why would anyone lie about attending Princeton?

Are Spornosexuals the New Metrosexuals?

Jason Parham · 06/11/14 03:07PM

Cologne-wearing, hypersexual, body-conscious, six-pack'd men of the internet, you have finally been recognized! It would seem that metrosexuality—the trend coined in 1994 by occasional anthropologist Mark Simpson—has evolved. Writing for The Telegraph, Simpson details the ways in which the joining of social media, selfies, sports, and porn—what he believes to be today's "major vectors of the male desire to be desired"—have led men yearning to be wanted for their bodies, not just their clothes.

Adam Weinstein · 06/11/14 02:30PM

A tea party House candidate in Oklahoma has endorsed stoning gays to death. It "goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I'm largely libertarian," he says, "but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss."

Prince Harry Meets Best Friend

Caity Weaver · 06/11/14 02:16PM

The inebriated mayor of Party City, Prince Harry, met a member of the Royal Welsh regiment of the British Army in London on Tuesday, and immediately became best friends with him.

Bumblebee Saves Another Bumblebee From Spider's Clutches

Jay Hathaway · 06/11/14 12:30PM

A man with a voice meant for narrating nature documentaries got his chance while filming a bumblebee trapped by a spider. He was taking the video to teach his son "a sort of brutal life lesson," but ended up capturing something entirely different.

Hamilton Nolan · 06/11/14 12:11PM

"There is one millionaire household for every 16 households in the country... with about 22 houses per block, if there isn't a family worth seven figures living on your block, there will likely be, on average, one living on the next block." Role models are everywhere.

NSA Out-NSAs Itself in Lawsuit Defense

Andy Cush · 06/11/14 11:55AM

Jewel v. NSA, a lawsuit filed in 2008 — years before the Edward Snowden leaks — takes the National Security Agency to task for the mass surveillance of AT&T customers' communications.