Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Salon: Tea Party nut's absurd quest: Void a whole county and declare me the winner!

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August 5th, 2014
Chris McDaniel

Tea Party nut's absurd quest: Void a whole county and declare me the winner!

Defeated Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel is challenging primary results, and the complaint is hilarious

Rand Paul

Rand Paul's stunning cowardice: Wants to be president but fears a "dreamer"

While low-rent congressman Steve King debated a dreamer, Paul dropped his burger and ran. Not ready for prime time!

Pizza

Teens invent an app for people too lazy to pick their pizza toppings

This new app lets you order pizza with a single tap. Rejoice. VIDEO

The Castro district of San Francisco

Are America's "gayborhoods" dying out?

Here come the new gentrifiers -- straight people

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Breaking: USA Today solves campus rape crisis with boring terrible idea

Really? Another editorial on why women's drinking is fueling sexual assault? Aren't we bored yet?

Palestinians run for cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Aug. 1, 2014.

I was wrong about Gaza: Why we can no longer ignore the horrors in Palestine

I tried to limit my exposure to the bombings and screams. But here's why being black in America made me think twice

Jack Abramoff

GOP's "toxic" laundering scheme: How echoes of Jack Abramoff are emerging

Group of GOP power brokers demonstrates the party's penchant for fleecing Indian tribes and Christian conservatives

Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt's cover of Eminem's "Forgot About Dre" is amazing

The "Guardians of the Galaxy" singer knows all the words to Dr. Dre's "The Chonic 2001" VIDEO

Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson: "Innovation" doesn't mean anything anymore

The man who brought America inside the minds of Einstein, Franklin and Jobs takes issue with modern-day tech hype

What constitutes rape?

Keep domestic violence shelters separate

The way to help male survivors of domestic violence is not to make refuges gender-neutral

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Here comes the polar vortex baby boom

One Pittsburgh hospital is preparing for a spike in deliveries

Kim Jong Un

No, Twitter will not topple a crazy North Korean dictator

A hackathon winner hopes access to outside media will nurture freedom. Not if China can help it

bacon

Deadly pig virus drives pork prices to a 30-year-high

Your daily crisis: bacon costs $6 per pound

Scanning electron microscopic image of Ebola virions

6 things you really need to know about the Ebola crisis

The real (and not-so-real) threats posed by West Africa's deadly outbreak

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence in

Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence's new sitcom "Partners" feels oddly familiar

They're not the first fading celebs to attempt to recreate the characters they're already famous for

Arwa Damon

Medics sue CNN journalist for "furiously" biting them while drunk

Award-winning international correspondent Arwa Damon reportedly drank a bit too much one night

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Sasheer Zamata opens up about her "SNL" hire, John Milhiser talks about getting fired

Season 39 had a lot of change-ups. Listen to stories about it from its cast members VIDEO

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Oil companies are giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a research institute that may not be real

Oil companies agreed to pay $350 million to a research center in Angola -- where has the money gone?

Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.)

GOP congressman worries refugee children at border may carry Ebola

Indiana's Todd Rokita isn't fear-mongering, he's just asking in order to ensure "we can plan for this" VIDEO

John Brennan

"I was too trusting": Gross double-standard saves Brennan, dooms Shinseki

Why does CIA director John Brennan still have a job when other scandal-plagued Obama officials have been fired?

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