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 - 5 wild consumer conspiracy theories, debunked
 - 6 obscene celebrity rants in support of Israel’s assault on Gaza
 - 4 reasons you should never ask a woman why she’s single
 - Harry Reid trolls Ted Cruz, Tea Party: Can he spook House Republicans out of passing a bill?
 - How beavers can save the American West
 - GOP’s moronic inferno: The real reason cranks and shills rule the party
 - Small cars fare poorly in crash tests
 - Latin America’s militaries are making a frightening comeback
 - “Stupid, absurd, non-defensible”: New NEA president Lily Eskelsen García on the problem with Arne Duncan, standardized tests and the war on teachers
 - More proof that climate change is ruining seafood for everyone
 - Iowa’s Joni Ernst: The Todd Akin of 2014?
 - Stephen Colbert needs a drink: “Things might actually be as bad as we make them sound on cable news”
 - Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart launches #NewCNNShows
 - Warren G. Harding’s sexy love letters are now available online
 - Alex Jones: Obama is enlisting refugees into a secret army of child soldiers!
 - Stephen Colbert gloriously trolls Sarah Palin’s new TV network
 - “Sharknado” director: I kept yelling “Shark!” to keep up our energy on set
 - Fox anchor Bob Beckel: “Bachelorette” star Andi Dorfman is “a slut!”
 - “Girls” star Allison Williams to play Peter Pan in live NBC production
 - Republicans may block bill to honor “too liberal” Pope Francis
 - Sex at the swingers’ club
 - The most extreme litter deterrent we’ve ever heard of
 - Facebook “revenge porn” lawsuit hits Mark Zuckerberg where it hurts
 - AP NewsAlert
 - This puppy can’t figure out how to slow down and it’s basically the cutest thing ever
 - Jay Leno, next “Last Comic Standing” mentor, is nailing this retirement thing
 - “This isn’t a joke to us”: Satanists get serious about challenging antiabortion laws
 - Russell Brand: “Terrorism is coming from” Sean Hannity
 - Darrell Issa’s ridiculous IRS plan: Let all “dark money” groups flourish!
 - 9 chain restaurant items that will basically kill you as soon as you order them
 - Please don’t compare Google Glass rage to the Chinese Exclusion Act
 - This cat really, really doesn’t want to be outside
 - Katy Perry on cultural appropriation: “Can’t you appreciate a culture?”
 - “Show some courage”: Survivors call out cowardly GOP on domestic violence and guns
 - Mangling Obamacare’s history: Conservatives revise some inconvenient ACA facts
 - “Get on Up” can’t contain the brilliant, arrogant, and magnetic Godfather of Soul
 - Another mom arrested for sending her kid to the park
 - Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin. The consequences are all around us today”
 - Colorado’s now averaging 2 oil and gas spills per day
 - This Morgan Freeman impression is the greatest
 - Tea Party hero Steve Stockman: GOPers call Lois Lerner “word that rhymes with witch”
 - Why are people freaking out about a doll penis?
 - The sad desperation of the “Redskins Facts” site
 - National Review declares war against the nerds
 - Here comes chikungunya: The painful, mosquito-borne virus is continuing its assault on the U.S.
 - David Brooks and Ruth Marcus are mind-numbingly wrong about marijuana
 - This tiny hamster living in a hamster-sized mansion is totally living the high life
 - Paul Ryan: The federal government’s powerless to stop global warming
 - Report: Woody Allen won’t hire a black actor unless he “writes a story that requires it”
 - If you like the new TV drama “Manhattan,” you’ll love this darkly hilarious comic about the atomic bomb
 - “Guardians of the Galaxy”: Marvel’s goofy, exhausting and faintly fascist new franchise
 - Jill Abramson’s sad admission: “I don’t think the press, in general, did publish any stories that upset the Bush White House”
 - ABC’s bizarre new fantasy world: Why medieval fiction and reality TV should never meet