Editors’ Blog - 2013
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05.30.13 | 1:56 pm
Not Jurassic Park But Maybe Wooly Mammoth Park

Russian scientist have found a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass which still contains liquid blood, spurring hope that cloning a woolly mammoth might now be possible.

05.31.13 | 4:52 am
Irony

Defunct ‘Soviet Union’ lives on as .su, a top-level domain name infested by spammers, thieves and other criminals.

05.31.13 | 5:12 am
Strange Form of Expertise

Dan Quayle aide counsels Rick Perry: No way to shake the moron rep once it takes hold.

05.31.13 | 6:09 am
Something Smoking. But Is It a Gun?

Bill O’Reilly: Ex-IRS commissioner’s 157 visits to White House are ‘smoking gun’ in IRS scandal. Watch.

05.31.13 | 6:20 am
Big Break for Mayor Ford?

Well, maybe not a big break. But perhaps a conceptual break. Or perhaps a new slogan for the 2014 reelection campaign he committed to running yesterday – “Yes I Smoked Crack But No One Got Killed!” Also, young Somali supporters of the Mayor reportedly considered making a faux Ford Crack Video to discredit the real one using a local Ford lookalike named ‘Slurpy’ – but ‘Slurpy’ pulled out. Read More

05.31.13 | 7:25 am
Why GOP Scandal Mongers Can’t Have Nice Things

As Bill Clinton and John Edwards and Bill Jefferson and various others have made clear, Democrats do have scandals. Plenty of them actually. But here we have another good example of why Republicans so often have bad luck these days with bogus scandals they’re so hyped up about or ones that actually are legitimate scandals but which get overrun by so much hysterical nonsense that the actual scandal gets forgotten amidst a lava-like deluge of The Crazy. In a few words, most of the right-wing press is just astonishingly bad. Read More

05.31.13 | 9:28 am
Outreach

Mich Gov Rick Snyder introduces “I’m a RickChick” stickers for supporters.

05.31.13 | 10:18 am
Kelly: I’m No “Emo Liberal”, Erick!

Foxmeister Megyn Kelly in epic brawl with Erick Erickson over whether science says men should be dominant in relationships and whether she’s an ’emo liberal’. Watch.

05.31.13 | 10:33 am
So This Happened

To greet African leaders arriving for conference in Japan, event organizers force group of Penguins to dress up in ‘African’ costumes … Read More

05.31.13 | 12:24 pm
New Sex Assault in the Ranks Story

“An attorney for the unidentified woman said she became intoxicated at a “football house” and woke up the next morning with little recollection of the previous night. She learned through social media and friends that three men claimed to have had sex with her.”

More here.