Bloomberg Businessweek reported today that the Heritage Foundation plans to launch a "new digital news site" called the Daily Signal next month, as an answer to Vox and FiveThirtyEight. I almost wrote that Heritage planned to "get into the news business," but that would have been inaccurate:

Bill Nye the Science Guy brought a gun to a knife fight by trying to employ actual facts in a debate about climate change on CNN's Crossfire earlier this week.

In the past week, we've heard from a parade of Amazon insiders—both warehouse workers and white collar employees—speaking about the serious flaws in the company's intense, sometimes inhuman work environment. Today: two more employees speak about high turnover, panic attacks, and the Amazon's military lifestyle.

When Marine veteran Daniel Rey Wolfe signed on to Facebook on Monday night and announced he was taking his own life, documenting the process in a graphic timeline of final self-portraits, his former comrades worked quickly and purposefully to save their brother-in-arms.

A Tokyo cab driver has been arrested for allegedly feeding his female passengers snacks laced with diuretics so he could satisfy his fetish for seeing them lose control and urinate on his back seat.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama's nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday. Image via J. Scott Applewhite/AP.

NRA versus law enforcement officers. Law enforcement officers win. This time.

Bitcoiners wishing to influence the American political process may now donate to their favorite (agorist, libertarian, crypto-conservative or maybe totally normal!) candidate using their internet-Monopoly-money, says the Federal Election Commission.

"[You know] what's the most important thing in a name—for a girl? It's that a man can whisper it into his pillow." So sayeth Reese Witherspoon (actress; party queen; official Gamma Phi social chair and unofficial Gamma Phi hazing captain) to an elevator full of stars in a bewitching new video posted to Instagram.

In case you're not familiar, La meilleure Boulangerie de France is a French television program about a cat that runs at full speed into a glass door. There's also a subplot about competitive baking, but it's considered much less popular and interesting.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the armed crazy folks are still armed and crazy.

A serial pooper is on the loose in Houston. Residents of the Woodland Heights neighborhood say one man—pictured above—has repeatedly shit on their sidewalks and in their yards, striking the yard of one unlucky house at least six times.

Mindreader Anthony Laye plays a game called "nailgun roulette," where he tries to tell by a person's voice which one of four nailguns is loaded. Hopefully, he's right, because the other three are going to be fired at him.

A 20-year-old Savannah State University student and cheerleader named Desiree was profiled on last night's episode of MTV's True Life, which was titled "I'm a Gay Athlete." In it, Desiree ostensibly came out to her mom Michelle and aunt Deena over lunch. It did not go well. This is about as worst-case scenario as it gets (I suppose only violence and/or outright rejection could make it worse).

The release of the latest White House report on climate change makes clear that the threat posed by global warming can now be declared to be conventional wisdom. Have we finally reached the point where the money people and the environmentalists unite?

I am friends with a married couple where the wife confides in me with relationship issues and happenings. Recently, the wife informed me that she has only been using sex as a "behavioral training mechanism" (her words) to get her husband to complete various domestic tasks. For instance, she has rewarded emptying the dishwasher with daily sex as reinforcement. After three weeks, the dishwasher has continued to be emptied sans sex. This has apparently occurred on multiple occasions for cleaning and other household tasks.

A medical student using the pseudonym "Elizabeth Raine" has sold her virginity online for just over $800,000. After a tantalizing buildup on her blog, "Musings of a Virgin Whore," the 28-year-old Raine finally revealed her face late last month, leading to massive influx of bids.

Edmund Wilson, the noted critic and public intellectual, was born on this day in 1895. (He died in 1972.) Wilson had the kind of come-to-New-York-and-pal-around-with-writer-celebrities life that quite a lot of people still dream of. He was also a notorious gossip.

In March, Matthew Notebaert crashed his car into a canal in south Florida, killing his wife Amanda. Today, it was revealed that Amanda was naked from the waist down and sitting on Matthew's lap when he plowed past a dead end road sign and into the water.

Is the Obama administration secretly ordering banks to close porn stars' accounts in an anti-money laundering program called "Operation Choke Point"? Probably not, but give conspiracy theorists mad points for hooking up that name and those deeds.