Last night, certain segments of Twitter were startled to see the Electronic Frontier Foundation publicizing a blog post with the title "Tea Party, Taxes and Why the Original Patriots Would've Revolted Against the Surveillance State." The EFF, with its focus on defending digital civil liberties, is usually seen as cosmopolitan and left-leaning, not conservative.

As it turns out, Frazier Glenn Miller, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who allegedly shot three people to death at two Kansas Jewish centers on Sunday, was sort of a popular guy. In fact, the mayor of Marionville, Mo., near where Miller used to live, considers the white supremacist a friend.

Andre Johnson, an L.A.-based, Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated rapper, jumped off a second-story balcony Wednesday morning in an apparent suicide attempt after cutting off his own penis, TMZ is reporting.

The Washington Post's Kathleen Parker congratulates herself this morning for having the courage to "go, tippy toe" into "the race fray":

A Washington Post commenter complaining that the "Heartbleed thingamajig" was no big deal posted his email and social media passwords in his rant, to prove nothing would happen if they were out in the open. Something happened. What did we learn?

"I didn't steal your car but I think my mom may have. It's a long story. I'll explain, but your car is safe and sound," reads a flier with a photo of a green Honda, posted in Red Hook.

As a company, AOL has made some horrible decisions. Slightly worse than its merger with Time Warner—one of the biggest disasters in American business history—was its decision to let its incredibly popular messaging client, AIM, wither and die. This is why that happened.

In case you were wondering, sodomy is still illegal in Louisiana. Yesterday, the State House rejected an appeal of the state's unconstitutional anti-sodomy law. Those who support keeping that law shriek, "The children! Won't someone think of the children!" loudly and often, or at least they want you to think they do.

Portlandia's Disappointing Gay sketch is awfully reminiscent of Tyler Coates and Mikala Bierma's Disappointing Gay Best Friend web series from a few years back. Blatant plagiarism or remarkable coincidence? IFC hasn't returned our request for a comment.

When high school senior Noah VanVooren was born with Down Syndrome 18 years ago, doctors told his parents he would never be able to "walk, talk, or do anything," his dad says. Well, Noah just found out he'll be going to college in the fall.

Tom Mitchell so loves his penis that he calls it "Elmo" and wants to donate it—not for science, exactly, but for mass admiration. Coming in somewhere between a real, live Christopher Guest character and someone who'd be profiled on a TLC reality show, Mitchell is the clear star of directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math's The Final Member, a documentary about the Iceland Phallological Museum that opens Friday in select cities.

In late February, the City University of New York announced that it had tapped Princeton economist and New York Times blogger Paul Krugman for a distinguished professorship at CUNY’s Luxembourg Income Study Center, a research arm devoted to studying income patterns and their effect on inequality.

Nashville drifter Taylor was photographed in New York City on Tuesday, trying out a cheerful spring look and running a scam as usual. While we don't know for sure if her bag was made of carpet, we can say for certain that her jeans were made of 55% Cotton/42% Tencel/3% Polyurethane, because she left the tag on them. Swift, who can afford but one pair of pants at a time, is no doubt planning to return these trousers at a later date, either for cash or store credit: "Hi. I'd like to return these unworn pants. No, they are unworn."

You probably know pioneering rap magazines like The Source and XXL, but as important in hip-hop history is Murder Dog, a renegade, eccentric, independently run publication with a remarkable history and a punk-rock founder, known only as Black Dog Bone, who was born in a Sri Lankan jungle.

In recognition of America's insatiable craving for chicken, chicken-like food products, and Frankenfoods, KFC is resurrecting its stomach-turning bunless chicken sandwich, the Double Down. The monster was first introduced in 2010, but its availability in the U.S. has been limited over the past few years.

A 34-year-old man faces charges of felony assault and assault with a bodily fluid after he allegedly licked the eyeball of a police officer attempting to arrest him on Saturday.

After a young girl from an Army family broke her foot, she went to see the base's resident Staff Sergeant/Orthopedic Specialist/M.C., who outfitted her with a cast and dropped some rhyming instructions about how to maintain it.

A dog, Gawker's foremost columnist who is a dog, weighs in on this week's Pulitzer Prize awards in a new column, "Give a Kiss to Me." A dog maintains a Kinja blog at dog.gawker.com.

Mt. Gox, the beleaguered Bitcoin exchange, reportedly told a Tokyo court that it's giving up the ghost. It will shut down entirely and pay creditors out of what's left. That means its creditors are likely to get relatively few of their lost bitcoins (and other investments) back.

A missing 3-year-old boy was found playing with the toys inside a claw machine at a bowling alley Tuesday.