Flirting, with horses

I pay for the horse farm; my husband uses the horses to attract women

Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Life Since You Asked, Marriage

Stop comparing Wendy Davis to the Khaleesi!

...Or Leslie Knope, or Tami Taylor. The filibustering Texas state senator deserves to be discussed on her own terms

Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment tami taylor, khaleesi

The 10 nerdiest jokes of all time

Courtesy of a Reddit thread, these will make you the toast of your next philosophy study group

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 11:15 PM UTC 28
Entertainment jokes, nerdy jokes, Philosophy

Six amazing signs from the “Stand with Texas Women” rally

Thousands of Texans turned out on Monday to support reproductive rights -- and get cheeky with some poster board SLIDE SHOW

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 10:53 PM UTC
Life slideshow, Texas, Wendy Davis

Edward Snowden releases statement from Moscow

The NSA whistle-blower says he left Hong Kong once it "became clear my freedom and safety were under threat"

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 10:26 PM UTC 20
Life Edward Snowden, Russia

X-ray vision, coming soon

An MIT professor and her student have devised technology that lets us track a person's movements through walls

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 10:20 PM UTC
Technology WiFi, superman, x-ray vision, Wi-Vi

Why “real journalists” hate Sean Parker’s wedding

Silicon Valley has launched a backlash against ankle-biting journalists. Careful what you wish for, guys

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 9:36 PM UTC 15
Technology Sean Parker, Bryan Goldberg

Dark money group lies to IRS about being dark money group

A Better America Now is the latest right-wing nonprofit to fail to report millions spent on campaign ads

, ProPublica Monday, Jul 1, 2013 9:27 PM UTC
Elections ProPublca, election

Report: Computer user believed to be Adam Lanza discovered

He had a "fetish" for a certain type of bullet and obsessively corrected Wikipedia articles about killers

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 9:13 PM UTC 14
News Adam Lanza, Newtown, Sandy Hook

House GOPer introduces constitutional ban on same-sex marriage

Rep. Tim Huelskamp's amendment will fail, but it did pick up 28 co-sponsors

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:41 PM UTC
Politics House Republicans, DoMA

Hey, GOP: Mexican immigrants aren’t necessarily Democrats

New research suggests they're all over the political spectrum -- and that right-wingers are more likely to vote

, Pacific Standard Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:30 PM UTC
Elections Pacific Standard

Best of the worst: Right-wing tweets on the Texas abortion battle

Conservatives' most discordant responses to Wendy Davis

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:30 PM UTC 76
Life best of the worst

Fox News adopts George Zimmerman

Outside his legal team, few have done more to help Trayvon Martin's shooter than Sean Hannity. Here's why

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 8:11 PM UTC 353
Media Trayvon Martin

Texas Senate meets, promptly votes to recess until July 9

The opening day of the hotly anticipated second special legislative session lasted all of 30 minutes

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:56 PM UTC 10
Life Wendy Davis, Texas, Abortion

Alison Lundergan Grimes will challenge Mitch McConnell

"Kentucky is tired of a senior senator that has lost touch with Kentucky issues, voters and their values," she said

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:51 PM UTC
Politics Alison Lundergan Grimes

Erick Erickson, Internet comedian, jokes about reproductive rights

He'll be here all week, folks

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:43 PM UTC 19
Media Erick Erickson, Media, Twitter

Greeting cards for the terminally ill are a great idea

Hallmark introduces a new line to deal with tough topics -- and that's a good thing

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:22 PM UTC 10
Life Cancer, Greeting Cards, Hallmark

Bodies of Arizona firefighters recovered

Flags in Prescott, Ariz., are flying at half-mast to commemorate the 19 lives lost in the wildfire

and , Associated Press Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:20 PM UTC
News Associated Press, Arizona

“Weird Al” Yankovic: It’s hard work being goofy

The musician-comedian on his childhood love for MAD Magazine, Prince and the secrets to writing a parody song

, The Weeklings Monday, Jul 1, 2013 7:00 PM UTC
Entertainment The Weeklings

Report: Snowden asks for political asylum in Russia

The Interfax news agency claims Snowden's representative handed over his request Sunday

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 10
News Associated Press, Interfax

Be employable, study philosophy

The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work

, The Tyee Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:45 PM UTC 74
Business The Tyee, Philosophy

Please stop the bogus tech nostalgia eulogies

Here's what all the silly weeping over Google Reader and AltaVista really means: We miss being young and in love

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:17 PM UTC 12
Technology AltaVista, Google Reader

Planned Parenthood gets the Tami Taylor seal of approval

Connie Britton has partnered with the women's health service provider on a campaign to "stand with Texas women" VIDEO

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:03 PM UTC
Life Video, tami taylor

Everything you need to know about the great e-book price war

How the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the Big Six book publishers will affect the business of lit

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 5:02 PM UTC 24
Entertainment Books, E-books, Apple, Amazon.com

Lena Dunham’s $24,000 sofa confession

The "Girls" star priced out a five-figure couch -- and showed off the emails in Miranda July's public art project

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:21 PM UTC
Entertainment Lena Dunham, miranda july, Girls

Koch brothers helped derail climate change with lawmaker pledge

Through Americans for Prosperity, the Kochs pushed a pledge to vote against any legislation not offset by tax cut

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:18 PM UTC 30
Politics Koch Brothers, David Koch

Ohio governor signs budget laced with antiabortion provisions

The two-year budget also includes amendments to defund Planned Parenthood and cut funding to rape crisis centers

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:14 PM UTC 21
Life Rape, rape crisis centers

James Clapper is still lying to America

A smoking gun shows Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is a big liar -- and it's not the first time

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 4:02 PM UTC 89
Politics James Clapper, NSA

“The Killing’s” breakout character is a butch teenage girl

Bullet is not a character you see on TV very often, and she's one of the best reasons to watch the show

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:54 PM UTC 11
Entertainment bullet, The Killing, TV, Television

Dem rep. calls for new probe of Jill Kelley, Gen. Allen emails

Rep. Jackie Speier says the Pentagon inspector general did not thoroughly investigate the thousands of exchanges

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:52 PM UTC
Politics Jill Kelley, Jackie Speier

Will Egypt’s army stage another coup?

The military has given the country's rival forces 48 hours to resolve the current political crisis

, GlobalPost Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:49 PM UTC
News GlobalPost, Egypt, Middle East

Putin: Russia won’t turn over Snowden

But the leaker should stop harming "our American partners"

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:37 PM UTC
News Putin, Vladimir Putin

The high cost of giving birth in the U.S.

The U.S. model encourages "more expensive care, rather than care that is good for the mother,” says one expert

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:30 PM UTC
Life birth, Childbirth, Pregnancy

Jennifer Lopez: Clueless

She claims she was ignorant of the Turkmen leader's alleged human rights abuses. She couldn't just Google?

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 3:01 PM UTC 39
Entertainment Jennifer Lopez

Why is Twitter so awful on Sundays?

Tweets about Sunday TV have taken on their own form of humor -- fun if you're watching, obnoxious if you're not

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 2:20 PM UTC 12
Entertainment Twitter, True Blood

Bush defends his surveillance program: “Civil liberties were guaranteed”

"I put that program in place to protect the country," he said of the NSA's surveillance program VIDEO

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 1:08 PM UTC 12
Politics Video, George W. Bush

Vatican monsignor questioned in corruption plot

Monsignor Nunzio Scarano has been arrested in a $26 million corruption plot

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 1:05 PM UTC
Life Vatican, Rome, pope

Anthony Weiner makes jokes about his name at NYC pride

“You guys know that’s my name right?” Weiner said as people chanted "Weiner." “We’re not just saying that.”

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:59 PM UTC
Politics Anthony Weiner, New York City

CBO says GOP abortion bill would raise the deficit

Federal deficits would increase by an estimated $75 million between 2014 and 2018, according to the CBO

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:55 PM UTC 12
Politics Trent Franks, Abortion

Wendy Davis gears up for round two of Texas abortion battle

Davis and her Democratic colleagues prepare for the second special session on Monday afternoon

Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:53 PM UTC 16
Life Wendy Davis, Texas, Abortion

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