A kerfuffle is haunting the Marxist internet—a kerfuffle about copyright.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has appointed John J. Degnan, a Democratic ex-attorney general of the state, to run the Port Authority. Degnan replaces David Samson, who resigned after ending up embroiled in the Christie administration's Bridgegate scandal.

Friends and volunteers help remove Dan Wassom's 1934 Ford on Tuesday from the debris left by Sunday's tornado in Vilonia, Ark. Image via Eric Gay/AP.

A Virginia reporter FOIAed any automatic license-plate reader data the local cops might have collected on her. The results were chilling, and possibly illegal: "The police know exactly where my car has been—and when—during the past few months."

The Pentagon plans to trash $1.2 billion in small-arms ammunition and missiles that are probably usable, but it can't be sure, because military inventory records are such a mess.

For their latest prank, NYC flashmob collective Improv Everywhere invaded Manhattan's 5th Avenue Gap store, wearing white morphsuits under their Gap clothes, and tried to blend in with the store's regular mannequins.

A federal judge has struck down Wisconsin's 2011 voter ID law, saying that it disproportionately burdens poor and minority voters.

"If you figure we humans reach full-size at age 18, I'd say China is about five and growing fast." Chris Matthews, your endearingly racist Philadelphia uncle, took a vacation to the Orient and returned wiser: "I get the idea that the Chinese consumer likes getting their hamburgers from McDonald's."

Everyone, apparently. Recently relaunched French Playboy equivalent Lui, currently having fun describing itself as "mysterious," made the bold/lucrative decision to put Ri Ri's tatas on the cover of its seventh issue. It's now having trouble keeping its website up.

Researchers are feverishly working on a "GPS bullet" that cops could shoot at your car, attaching itself to the chassis and helping law enforcement track your vehicle's movements. Don't worry, the ACLU is... not entirely against it? Hrmm.

Ladies and gentlemen, the stars of J.J. Abrams Presents Disney's Star Wars Episode VII!

A long New York Times look at global thinking on how to create affordable urban housing turns up only one workable idea: "It seems the only solution would be to level all of, say, North Brooklyn and put up monolithic prefab tower blocks." We support this.

A Montana man was charged with deliberate homicide on Monday, two days after he shot and killed a German exchange student he found in his garage after setting a trap for burglars.

It's tedious, but if you listen to the entirety of L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's whiny, racist tirade, caught on tape by his girlfriend V. Stiviano and then widely disseminated this weekend, you can eventually get to the root of the couple's argument. It seems Sterling was upset that Stiviano, reportedly his mistress, had taken a photo with Magic Johnson and then posted that photo to her Instagram account.

There is censorship going on at Duke University! Well, it's not that people are... banning speech, exactly. They're just discouraging it. What speech? Oh. Um, telling people "Man up," "That's so gay," and "Don't be a pussy." I know. What will these tyrannical leftist pussies do next?

Great news: Taliban captors appear willing to return Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to the U.S. after nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan. Bad news: Neither the Taliban nor the Pentagon seem sure who in the U.S. government Bergdahl's captors should be dealing with.

So much is going on with Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his girlfriend Vanessa Stiviano right now, but let's take a second to admire her visor game. Nobody going to court has looked this haute since, obviously, Lindsay Lohan.

A judge has approved the 2011 sale of a Pennsylvania widow's house, finding that she had received ample notice about the $6.30 in tax interest that she still owed.

Maybe both. On the plus side, America hates everything and everybody, according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll tabs.

I'm a twenty-seven year old single guy in NYC. Sometimes, when I can afford it, I see sex workers, especially dominatrixes. It's great! I do my best to be a respectful client, and a crucial part of that is ignoring each other when we happen to be in the same space outside of the dungeon. At most, and only with dommes I've had multiple sessions with, a quick "Hi." Recently though, a friend of mine showed up to a show with his new girlfriend, who just the week before had me licking her boots. We're good friends, so I can't just not hang out with him, and I know she'll be around for a lot of that time. I see no need to tell him about it; it's our business. I've emailed with her, and she seems fine keeping me as a client. There's very little physical touching in our sessions. I prefer humiliation and j/o, maybe some face slapping. I want to keep seeing her. Is that okay?