“Irene McCormack came forward publicly Monday, saying that Filner had asked her to work without wearing underwear, demanded kisses and repeatedly dragged her around in a headlock while whispering sexual advances.”

Maybe I’m just old school but doesn’t the dragging around in a headlock while whispering sex talk maybe get you from harassment to assault?

Bizarro fairyland country decides helpless newborn infant will be future head of state.

A massive armed attack – with mortars, suicide bombs and car bombs – has successfully freed hundreds of inmates, reportedly many al Qaida militants, from Abu Ghraib prison.

3 year old fatally shoots self with handgun at family friends’ home.

CNNer lauds Kate Middleton as “brilliant” for birthing a boy on the first try. Watch.

I shared some thoughts yesterday about Nate Silver’s departure from the Times, with particular attention to how the Ezra Klein, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nate Silver model, for lack of a better word, is now becoming so key for newspapers trying to make a successful digital transition. As I wrote, this is in many ways how major media has domesticated blogging (and I do not necessarily mean that in a negative way). Read More

As the Mayans predicted, when Ken Cuccinelli’s crusade against sodomy collided with the ladies from The View the world would end. After the fold … Read More

Poll shows massive racial, partisan divide on Zimmerman verdict.

Obama in Senegal.

Jack Hunter has now resigned as Sen. Rand Paul’s senior aide. But here are some more of his greatest hits. As recently as 2009 he wrote the following things comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolph Hitler … Read More