Dallas' own Aunt Sassy, Amy Kushnir, appeared last night on Fox News to defend her allergic reaction to seeing Michael Sam kiss his boyfriend. Spoiler alert: "Blah blah blah traditional values blah blah blah." Homophobia, by the way, is a traditional value.

Hundreds of demonstrators protest against money spent on the World Cup preparations in São Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday before clashing with police. Image via Andre Penner/AP.

The fact that Target executive Jeff Jones wrote a public response to an employee who complained to Gawker is considered so extraordinarily bold that it merits its own story in Ad Age. Take a moment to contemplate how low the bar for heroism in corporate communications must be.

Despite a year of rumors that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were getting married in Paris, it's recently come out that the #WorldsMostTalkedAboutWedding will be relocated to Florence, Italy. And Kanye just told an Italian newspaper why it's secretly been Florence all along: Because he and Kim secretly conceived their daughter there.

CNN announced on Friday that it'd fired one of its news editors, Marie-Louise Gumuchian, after discovering multiple instances of plagiarism in her work. According to CNN's editor's note, Gumuchian regularly covered news about Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Three generations of a German family were reportedly struck down by a single lightning bolt on Tuesday when the electrical charge shot down a tree and across their lawn as they were heading inside to avoid the rain.

As mainstream U.S. presidential candidates persist in pretending that global warming may not be real, at least one sector of society is already busy planning for the coming catastrophe: big corporations.

America's sacred moonchild Shailene Woodley briefly manifested herself on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday, where she revealed that everything she owns on Earth—minus "some kitchen items" (huge bongs)—can fit into a single carry-on bag (the bulk of the space of which is occupied by wild ideas). Also: She has no home.

Maryland has become the latest state to get a revenge porn statute onto the books. Governor Martin O'Malley yesterday signed HB 43 into law. It makes the placement of nude photographs on the Internet without consent, and with the intent to cause emotional harm a misdemeanor punishable by two years in prison, or a $5,000 fine.

Lincoln is an average guy—and above-average lipsyncer—from Canada, whose dream is to appear on the Tonight Show and take on Jimmy Fallon in a lips sync duel.

Fishlike casual dining chain Red Lobster is being sold to a private equity firm for $2.1 billion. Ehh... what joke would you make about Red Lobster right now? Leave it in the comments, or whatever. It's too early.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans polled by NBC News said they'd favor a return to death by gas, electric chair, firing squad or hanging if lethal injection was found impractical. What's your preference? Personally, I'd like to have seen polling numbers for garroting and breaking on the wheel.

Tara the hero cat's victory tour isn't over yet: A minor league baseball team announced on Thursday that the courageous cat will throw out the first pitch at a game next week.

Of all the things you want to see while looking out of the window of a plane, "part of the wing dangling off" is very low on that list.

India's Congress Party, which has ruled the country for a decade, conceded defeat on Friday to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party's leader, will be India's next prime minster.

Two airport employees who used the confusion of the Asiana Airlines crash last summer as an opportunity to steal luggage from airline passengers are now headed to jail.

Jennifer Lawrence was not so happy with Jimmy Fallon after he ditched her in front of JLo at a recent party.

An addition to today's Michael Alig profile in the New York Times: "An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of a popular gay dating app. It is Grindr, not Grndr." Oh, Times, never change!

Last year book royalties netted the Obama family between $100,000 and $200,000 in income. Vice President Biden's 2007 memoir, on the other hand, pulled in a grand total of $201.

Well that's one way to make a deposit.