This Is What It's Like to Have a Clown-Sex Fetish

Rich Juzwiak · 06/11/14 11:45AM

"The fun thing about clown sex is there's really no rules," says Jay, a 33-year-old from Chicago and expert on the subject. Jay shared his fetish and many of its accompanying toys—greasepaint, rubber noses, clown pants that you can wear with nothing under them, a cat o' nine tails made of uninflated balloons—on an episode of Logo's sex therapy reality show Bad Sex last night.

The Iowa Governor's Race Has Turned Into a Mustache War

Allie Jones · 06/11/14 10:51AM

It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between all the white guys running for office in this country. Thankfully, Iowa gubernatorial candidate Jack Hatch is here to help. He shaved his mustache on camera to distinguish himself from his opponent, current Republican Gov. Terry Branstad.

Healing Inmates in Order to Kill Them

Hamilton Nolan · 06/11/14 10:39AM

San Quentin State Prison is home to California's death row. And the condition of the residents of that death row is such that the state is about to open a mental hospital just for them.

Michelle Dean · 06/11/14 09:34AM

For reasons known only to itself, Vanity Fair has devoted some 3500 words to the hot-button issue of how some high-status literary critics don't like The Goldfinch. Representative phrasing: "But, in the literary world, there are those who profess to be higher brows still than The New York Times..."

Hamilton Nolan · 06/11/14 08:28AM

Eleven major PR firms have signed a pledge not to surreptitiously edit their clients' Wikipedia pages. Countless lesser PR firms have promised no such thing.

Meet the Ayn Rand Scholar Who Beat Eric Cantor

Allie Jones · 06/11/14 07:25AM

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary last night to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat. Many are already puzzling over what this means for the future of the Republican party (nothing good, really), but first, let's take a look at the challenger himself. Who is Dave Brat?

Ted Cruz Is No Longer Canadian

Andy Cush · 06/11/14 07:11AM

Canadian citizenship never befitted Ted Cruz, a man who's made it his mission to put the 'merica back in America since his election to the Senate last year.

Taylor Berman · 06/11/14 06:52AM

A protestor kicks a policeman during a student demonstration in Santiago, Chile. Tens of thousands of students took to the streets on Tuesday to demand promised education reform from recently-elected President Michelle Bachelet. Image via Luis Hidalgo/Associated Press.

Town Mayor Caught Throwing Dog Shit on Neighbor's Sidewalk

Aleksander Chan · 06/10/14 10:42PM

San Marino, Ca. Mayor Dennis Kneier was busted for having thrown a bag of dog shit onto a neighbor's walkway. The neighbor, Philip Lao, caught Kneier tossing the doo with the security cameras outside his home and believes it was done in retaliation for his opposition to a proposed neighborhood dog park.