A wheeling turtle, record-breaking blob jumps, and Al Franken's wrath

In Salon's brand-new podcast, John Cameron Mitchell talks about the real sex in his film and why he prefers Pat Robertson's moral outrage to George W. Bush's hypocrisy, while Richard Linklater talks about his two new releases. Listen in!

Dude, where's my knife?

The director of "Friends With Money" gave Jennifer Aniston stained pants and Catherine Keener a "fat ass." And her movie gave me nightmares.

Pigs! Mental breakdowns! Nematodes! "Walden"! We answer all your questions about 2013's strangest film

Infamous shock jock Michael Savage bombed in a bizarre, half-baked stage show this week, but his 6 million listeners just heard him call for the U.S. to murder millions of Arabs. Does the FCC care?

Meanwhile, Gawker is attempting to obtain video of the mayor smoking crack cocaine

"Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government?" Peter Morrison asks

Want to address rampant discrimination against LGBTQ people? An RFRA "fix" doesn't even scratch the surface

How did this get published? A straight critic slags gay men for not being stereotypes

Ted Cruz will love Mike Pence's new law protecting anti-gay discrimination -- but here's why Jeb and Rand may not

"Real Time" host battles Indiana's religious freedom law, proposed anti-gay initiative & fundamentalists everywhere

This is the no-go zone

The acclaimed actor spoke to Salon about his play-turned-film "Guest Artist," creativity, and his pandemic hobbies

A wildly popular site pokes fun at the horror of big box shoppers, and proves how unattractive the Web can be