Editors’ Blog - 2013
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08.14.13 | 11:35 am
I’m Sure This Will Turn Out Great

McConnell’s primary challenger, Matt Bevin, asks McConnell whether he’s man enough to shutdown the government over Obamacare.

08.14.13 | 12:31 pm
New Twist on Beauty Queen Resignation Theme

We’re used to the Beauty Queen resigning over amateur nude photos or some dabbling with porn. It’s almost a cliche and perhaps more frequent with the progressive Weinerization of American culture. But here’s a new twist on it. Utah beauty pageant winner Kendra McKenzie Gill surrendered her crown after being caught terrorizing her town with homemade “bottle bombs”, “driving around town and throwing plastic bottles filled with toilet bowl cleaner and shrapnel at people and property.”

08.14.13 | 12:46 pm
This Is Really Getting Insane

I’m starting to feel like I’m watching an episode of Intervention. Having given up on the idea of tying Obamacare defunding to a government shutdown, House Republicans are now pushing to tie it to defaulting on the national debt.

08.14.13 | 1:26 pm
The Day In 100 Seconds

Wednesday rolls around and the conversation turns to Cory Booker, clowns and Hooters.

Full-size version.

08.14.13 | 1:50 pm
Wherefore Yon #Waywire

Here was our rather tortured attempt today to find out whether Cory Booker, Democratic Senate nominee, is still soliciting new potential investors for his tech start-up #Waywire. Involved a minor spokesperson blow up. But nothing of Weiner proportions.

08.14.13 | 3:42 pm
Noted Without Comment

I’m far from thinking the Egyptian military is a reliable or disinterested source on this. But this caught my eye …

The Egyptian military source said public outrage after critical comments by visiting U.S. senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham last week and leaked reports of a possible deal between the authorities and the Brotherhood had put the army in a tough position.

The mediators warned that any move to break up the sit-ins would likely cause hundreds of deaths and drive many conservative Salafi Muslim activists, initially supportive of Mursi’s overthrow, to join forces with the Brotherhood in fierce opposition to the authorities.

08.14.13 | 5:05 pm
Seminal

ICYMI: Birtherism gets even weirder when American sperm gets involved.

08.15.13 | 4:52 am
Voting Apocalypse

We’re used to New Yorkers going to Florida. But is Florida coming to New York? A weird set of circumstances is forcing New York City to switch back to old voting machines which have been in storage for so long that they might be too rusty or musty to even work any more for just the primary election and no one knows what’s going to happen. Amazing story. For all we know it might be Mayor Carlos Danger after all.

08.15.13 | 7:15 am
On the Road to Stardom?

Scientists discover a new mammal, the ‘olinguito’, so adorable it’s likely to get its own vertical on Buzzfeed.

08.15.13 | 10:37 am
Today’s Filner Scorecard

So today we have a great-grandmother (#16) who works for the City of San Diego accusing Filner in addition to a another woman (#15) who says that among other things “he made an inappropriate movement on my body.”