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The Internet Couldn't Wait for a Man of Steel 2 Trailer, So It Made One

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With Ben Affleck signing up to play Batman in the Man of Steel sequel and Bryan Cranston heavily rumored to join him as archvillain Lex Luthor, there was no way the Internet was going to wait patiently until next year to catch its first glimpse of what that might look like.

And so it didn't: Using masterfully spliced footage from Breaking Bad, The Dark Knight, Daredevil, the first Man of Steel film and several other sources set over a Hans Zimmer score, YouTubers SoylentBrak1 gives frothing fanboys their first decent peek at the most controversial superhero film since Howard the Duck.

[H/T: Movies.com]


Broke-ass Pennsylvania capital city Harrisburg plans to sell off its incinerator and lease out all i

Here's a Supercut of People Saying "Twerk" on the News

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Miley Cyrus' jaw-dropping twerk-a-thon at this year's MTV Video Music A-twerks was a twerktacular twerkfest that set off a 24/7 twerk cycle. The news loves twerking, the news is confused by twerking, some people on the news won't twerk, some people say they will but don't.

Above is a supercut of people on the news discussing and defining twerking in the aftermath of Cyrus' thrilling VMAs performance.

This video was inspired by former Gawker Editorial Fellow Robert Kessler, one who got away.

Mom Kills Newborn in Sports Bar Bathroom, Returns to Wrestling Match

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Mom Kills Newborn in Sports Bar Bathroom, Returns to Wrestling Match

A woman in Pennsylvania is being held without bail after she was charged with callously murdering her baby shortly after giving birth to him in a sports bar bathroom.

Local authorities say Amanda Catherine Hein of Allentown was at Starters Pub in Lower Saucon Township on August 18th with three male companions.

Mom Kills Newborn in Sports Bar Bathroom, Returns to Wrestling Match

While watching a pay-per-view wrestling event, Hein suddenly complained of back pain and headed for the restroom.

It was there police say she quickly realized she was going into labor and soon give birth to a premature baby boy.

Though he arrived at least a month early, the baby was otherwise healthy, according to County Coroner Zachary Lysek.

The 26-year-old would later confess to investigators that she suffocated the child with a garbage bag, and left his body inside a toilet tank.

Covered in blood, Hein eventually returned to her party after a 40-minute absence, but refused to tell the men what happened.

She reportedly continued watching the WWE SummerSlam for another hour before leaving the bar.

A friend of Hein's said she refused medical assistance, claiming she didn't have insurance. None of the men had any idea Hein was pregnant.

According to Starters owner David Rank, it was a cleaning crew that found the boy's body inside the toilet the following day.

The identity of the father remains unknown.

Hein was subsequently arrested and charged with the intentional killing of a child under the age of 12.

If convicted, she faces a possible death sentence.

NBC Philadelphia points out that Pennsylvania's Safe Haven Law would have allowed Hein to turn her child over a hospital free of legal consequences.

[screengrab via ABC 6, NBC10]

Mitch Hurwitz Is Convinced Arrested Development is Like The Godfather

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Mitch Hurwitz Is Convinced Arrested Development is Like The GodfatherIn his latest dispatch on the movie that may or may never be, Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz tells Rolling Stone just how he feels about all those critics who didn't love the latest season of the show on Netflix:

Also, it's difficult to make this comparison because it sounds self-aggrandizing and I don't mean it that way, but I remember when The Godfather II came out. People were like, 'What? What is this? I want to see The Godfather where they shoot people, not this thing where they talk about Cuba.'"

Pro tip: If you have to caveat a statement with "I don't mean it this way, but..." you kind of do mean it that way. You know what would help it not sound self-aggrandizing, Mitch? Not comparing your show to not one, but two of the arguably greatest movies of all time. Just a thought.

Hurwitz is currently working on the Arrested Development feature in some capacity, despite the fact that Fox has not given the film any sort of green light.

I can't get into much more detail because I don't want to scare anybody off. I don't want to be presumptuous about it. I don't own the property outright – it's a 20th Century Fox property. But everybody seems really into it and really eager to make a movie....I'm always sort of superstitious about talking about this stuff before it happens. It's the best way to guarantee it doesn't happen.

Emphasis mine. After giving this caveat, he then continues to talk about getting the cast back together ("I think it would be very doable to get them back together for four or five weeks to make a movie"), and his critics ("It doesn't matter what people like now").

Hurwitz would never last a day in the Mob. He is horrible at keeping secrets. God, Mitch, it's like you never even SAW The Godfather.

America's Next Top War Is: Syria

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America's Next Top War Is: Syria

It's been a long time since the last war in ... where was it, Libya? Libya, yes. A good war. And like the iPhone, we apparently need a new version of this war every two years.

Unlike the iPhone, this is not a war we'll get to touch. Like all wars in the 21st Century, a handful of professional soldiers and pilots and remote-control drone operators will do the actual fighting, mostly from a safe distance, because the fighting mostly involves dropping things out of planes, especially from the popular robot planes.

Once the air strikes and drone strikes are done, the locals can fight amongst themselves for a couple of years. Several blogs will follow this action closely, from afar, and the rest of us can safely forget about it. You can always "like" a solidarity picture that goes with whatever side of the clash your friends or maybe relatives support, if they follow the news a little bit. Sometimes people have family members either from the country we're fighting or maybe just from that culture in general. Mentioning this on Twitter and Facebook and in the comments on this very page of the Internet are all very good ways to show your opposition or support—in fact, they're the only ways. What else are you going to do, vote for a president or Congress that doesn't start wars every 24 months? Good luck with that.

A current social media brand experiencing steady but undramatic growth in its user base will find, perhaps unexpectedly, that this war really puts the brand into the spotlight. Twitter had the Arab Spring, old-fashioned blogs had something with purple fingers, China had nothing really because all the U.S. social media companies have agreed not to annoy China's political leadership, and MySpace had pictures of U.S. troops pissing on murdered children.

What will it be, this time? Foursquare? Maybe we will all "check in" with Syria, see how it's going. Or, possibly more useful, the whimsical Twitter video clip service called Vine could be used to show chemical weapons attacks. Apple's mobile mapping software could bring some much needed humor to the nightmare, with funny broken images of buildings or bridges that appear to be floating or whatever, before they're hit by missiles.

The important thing is that a Silicon Valley company in cahoots with U.S. intelligence makes a name for itself during the troubling days to come.

Each 21st Century U.S. war is a little less reliant on any humans at all, which is intentional. People are messy. They shoot civilians, they burn Korans, they smoke opium, they listen to Kid Rock and sneak off base looking for the prostitutes. Afghanistan needed a lot of fighting people, and you may remember that Afghanistan is still going on, a dozen years later. Afghanistan has been a U.S. war for so long that it was the background war in the first of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man movies. The U.S. Revolutionary War against rich people paying their taxes didn't last as long as whatever's happening in Afghanistan.

Iraq didn't go very well, either. Nobody really cared "on the home front" as long as there was some occasional video setup with locals slapping a Saddam Hussein statue with their shoes, but once the fun stopped and thousands of U.S. troops were getting blown to bits by homemade car bombs, well then the American people were upset. They even turned on beloved 9/11 president George W. Bush, even though he specifically told us Iraq was because of 9/11.

So, people are out. Our people, actually. Other people will be bombed. One day, perhaps, the playing field will be equalled and all nations will have the same drones and stealth bombers and cyberwar capability, and perhaps global peace and understanding will finally arrive, hopefully at Christmas when people are already saying that stuff.

What a wonderful Christmas present that would be, for the whole world and especially the Middle East part of the world we keep bombing all the time, if peace would finally come at Christmastime.

Meanwhile, any smaller country that decides to be our enemy has nothing but our old weapons to fight us with, and those old weapons are really of no more use than a Blackberry from 2003 or even a first generation iPad, which will not load the new Plants vs. Zombies game because it doesn't have an internal camera. Why do you need an internal camera to have video-game plants shoot things at the zombies? No-one knows. What we do know is that the advantage is always with the person (or global empire) that has the latest technology.

Ken Layne's American Journal appears on Gawker as circumstances warrant, which is basically every day. Image by Jim Cooke.

Analysts say that "Price is the most important factor, ahead of flavor, when purchasing Greek yogurt

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Analysts say that "Price is the most important factor, ahead of flavor, when purchasing Greek yogurt," which is why America insists upon making the Yogurt Wars a battle between mediocre and sub-par while the real best yogurt languishes on the sidelines, unappreciated, like a creamy, delicious, calcium-packed Tim Tebow.

These New George W. Bush Paintings May Herald a "Cat Period"

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These New George W. Bush Paintings May Herald a "Cat Period"

Two new paintings by former president George W. Bush, published for the first time here on Gawker, give us a new window into the ongoing development of the tortured artist/torture advocate—and opens the possibility for a new phase in his oeuvre: cats.

Bush, whose early work in nude self-portraiture quickly gave way to a long "dog period," seems to now be moving through a natural evolution to work on cats. So far, those who have followed Bush through his artistic evolution have seen only two paintings of cats, separated by many dog portraits.

But two paintings, obtained by conspiracy-obsessed hacker Guccifer, represent either side of what art historians might in the future call "the break." The first, an immature work, shows two dogs relaxing on grass; one looks coyly at the viewer while other stares out-of-frame, its face reflecting shame. Together, they might be said to represent facets of Bush's personality—tense, ready for action, eager-to-please, versus reflective, shameful, cognizant of damage done:

These New George W. Bush Paintings May Herald a "Cat Period"

But compare the nervous framing and desperate brushstrokes to the assured, confident grid of this, his first feline masterpiece, in which a lounging cat is all things at once: strained and relaxed; yearning and indifferent; brooding but available.

These New George W. Bush Paintings May Herald a "Cat Period"

We have now seen all or part of 25 paintings by the former president, and it seems clear that we are standing in the presence of bold new vision in contemporary art. May the cat period be as fruitful, as breathtaking, as charged with energy as the "over 50 dogs."


Texas Loves Teens, Cali Wants Asians: What's Your State's Fave Porn?

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Texas Loves Teens, Cali Wants Asians: What's Your State's Fave Porn?

Can you judge a state by its PornHub keyword searches? Sure. Why not. And guess what? Right now you're probably surrounded by people into MILF massage.

As the Daily Dot reports, last week, PornHub released some data regarding keyword searches in each American state. Texans are into teens. Kentucky digs hentai. Georgia gets off on ebony. New Yorkers rub one out after searching "college." In self-obsessed Hawaii, "Hawaii" is one of the top search terms. West Virginia likes MILFs, creampies and BBW. California's top three searches are Asian, teen and massage, which seems fitting when you think about Los Angeles as a chilled out, youth-obsessed pseudo-Zen town.

One state on the list that really stands out? Wyoming. "Smoking" is the top search. Even though they're disgusting and deadly, cigarettes can look pretty sexy — they direct focus to the lips, and smoke is intensely sensual and cinematic. But usually porn is all about watching someone putting something (or someone?) else in their mouths. Wyoming also has "brcc" in the top three searches, and because of that, today is the day that I learned about "backroom casting couch" porn.

You can see the top three search terms, state by state, here, but the overall message you'll come (heh) away with is this: Everyone wants to see creampies.

[Daily Dot, Reddit, (data viz here)]

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks New York Times, Twitter

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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks New York Times, Twitter

The New York Times is experiencing outages today, and it's looking like the anonymous hacktivists of the Syrian Electronic Army are responsible. Our own Sam Biddle just took the screenshot above when he visited a few minutes ago. And Computer security expert Matt Johansen, manager for the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security, noticed that during the outage that the New York Times' website briefly pointed to a Syrian Electronic Army domain.

New York Times spokeswoman tweeted that an initial assessment found the issue was "likely result of malicious external attack."

It's the second outage for the New York Times in a week, and if it was actually the SEA, which has hacked a number of media outlets from New York Post writers to the Associated Press in support of the Syrian government, it would be their biggest coup yet.

Update: Uh oh, it looks like they hacked Twitter's domain, too.

Update II: The New York Times writes that hackers were able to change their DNS registration by attacking their registrar, Melbourne IT, apparently the same one used by Twitter.

This 12-Year-Old Is a Vine Genius

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This 12-Year-Old Is a Vine Genius

Nobody on Vine amuses me more consistently than a 12-year-old girl from Birmingham, Michigan, who goes by the name Lillian Powers. She started posting her absurd, awkward-funny 6-second videos on June 11. In the time since, she has posted 95. I assume this is something of a summer-vacation project. It's been time well spent.

Powers' bio reads (in a Disney-esque font):

I'm 12 years young. Going into 7th grade. I just have fun with my Vines.

Yep. My favorite feature of hers is the "random shoutout," in which she yells in a public space and catches the surprise reaction those within view:

This one, titled "I dony know this person LOL," is along the same lines:

I think all of this is a really positive use for all that annoyance that tweens have within them.

She's got a lot of animals (including a donkey) and she knows exactly what to do with them:

She also has a mature sense of satire:

It's a beautiful thing when a person finds her medium, especially so early in life. And one day, Lillian Powers will write all the sketch shows and direct all the movies. I can't wait.

Hat tip to @CodyTupper, via whom I discovered Lillian Powers. He's an excellent Vine curator, seemingly without trying. This one that he tweeted (not by Lillian Powers) is fucking insane:

This Is What It Feels Like to Be Quadriplegic

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This Is What It Feels Like to Be Quadriplegic

It sucks being a quadriplegic.

It's terrible not being able to stand, to walk, to run. To go for a hike in the woods. To walk down the stadium steps and be a part of the home team.

I hate being the reason your plane or bus is late. Trust me, I feel awful about that. I miss stretching my legs after a hard day, or dancing at a wedding (badly).

Most of all, I hate how restricted the world feels. I miss celebrations because I can't get to the second floor of a bar. I have to meet my friends’ new baby on the front lawn because I can't get into their house. Without my legs, the world feels like a series of obstacles and barriers. It makes me feel like I can't be a part of regular life. It's isolating.

Not being able to use your hands is even worse. I would be happy to never walk again if I could have my hands back—just to open the door, to crack my knuckles, to scratch my dog and make her leg kick. To give you the bird when you cut me off in traffic.

To be able to hold my wife. I never realized how appropriate it is that we use the word feel for both emotion and sensation until I lost it. It sometimes feels like I am numb to the world around me.

I miss cooking and mowing the lawn. I miss being bad at golf and worse at basketball. I miss nature, off-the-trail nature. I miss driving. I miss rolling down windows and fiddling with radio dials.

I'll never get to ride a motorcycle again. I will never have the chance to ride down Highway 1 towards Big Sur in open air again, the Pacific stretching out to my side, watching the sunset. I won't ever make new memories like that. When you become disabled later in life your memories torment you. They taunt you. Beauty in life is experiential. When you're disabled, it's hard not to see only ugliness in the world.

When I was in rehabilitation, local news ran a story about a quadriplegic who killed himself. Late one evening, he drove his power wheelchair into the lake and it dragged him under. Watching, I started to cry. I was terrified. Was it really so bleak for people like me? Was there really so little hope?

I understand why that poor guy took his life. But, almost three years later, despite all of the pain, I've found new beauty in the world. And I've found goodness in people that I was too cynical to see before my accident.

One Sunday morning my wife and I got up early and went for breakfast around the corner. It had snowed overnight and our walkway was blocked; I didn't know how deep it was and got stuck. My wife pushed but the chair wouldn't budge. We contemplated calling emergency services.

And then someone pulled over to help. Dressed in his Sunday best, he got on his hands and knees, in the dirtiest of the gutter snow, and dug me out. This guy didn't care who I was; he didn't care if I was rich or poor, who I voted for, who I prayed to, or if I prayed at all. He saw that I was in need and helped me without question, much to the detriment of his suit pants.

It was an act of kindness—this act of kindness—that gave me hope for the future. It's hard to live my life, but I'm lucky to have the opportunity to keep living, to be a part of the goodness of this world, to pay forward the kindness I have received. And maybe to stop others in my position from losing hope. To help them see the beauty in this world.

To help them want to live.

Jimmy Anderson lives in Madison, Wisc., with his wife. He last wrote for Gawker in June about the car accident that left him paralyzed. He is the founder of the Victims of Impaired Driving Project.

Daryl Lane Woods, chairman of Missouri's Main Street Bank and an idiot, has pleaded guilty to using

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Daryl Lane Woods, chairman of Missouri's Main Street Bank and an idiot, has pleaded guilty to using $381K in federal bank bailout funds to buy a condo in Fort Myers, FL, which sucks.

Same-Sex Married Couples Still Ineligible for Veterans Benefits

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Same-Sex Married Couples Still Ineligible for Veterans Benefits

Gay married couples are ineligible to receive the same federal veterans benefits afforded to straight couples, according to a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The letter, obtained by the Washington Blade on Tuesday, cites Title 38 of the U.S. Code, which “define[s] 'spouse' and surviving spouse' to refer only to a person of the opposite sex."

The letter explains why Title 38 remains in effect despite using nearly identical language as the Defense of Marriage Act, which the Supreme Court struck down in June. From the letter:

“Under these provisions, a same-sex marriage recognized by a State would not confer spousal status for purposes of eligibility of VA benefits. Although the title 38 definition of ‘spouse’ and ‘surviving spouse’ are similar to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) provision at issue in United States v. Windsor, no court has yet held the title 38 definitions to be unconstitutional.”

Eric Shinseki, the Obama-appointed Secretary of Veterans Affairs, wrote the letter on August 14 in response to an inquiry from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). Shaheen is co-sponsoring the Charlie Morgan Act, which would change U.S. code to ensure the rights of gay veterans in same-sex marriages.

From a statement provided by Shaheen to the Washington Blade:

"We need to pass the Charlie Morgan Act to bring Department of Veteran Affairs benefits policy in line with the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down DOMA,” Shaheen said. “I’m committed to making this happen. Every individual who serves in uniform deserves access to the benefits that they’ve earned and rightfully deserve. We can’t tolerate this type of discrimination, especially in the aftermath of a historic Supreme Court ruling that declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.”

[Image via AP]

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CBN Covers Up Pat Robertson's Claim That Gays Spread AIDS on Purpose

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Note to Pat Robertson: When your batshit crazy ravings have gotten too batshit crazy for your very own television network, it may be time to dial down the batshit.

The infamous televangelist troll, who's made some seriously unforgivable statements in the past, outdid himself today when he claimed gay community members are intentionally infecting heterosexual people with AIDS by cutting their fingers during handshakes using a special AIDS ring.

These were his exact words to co-host Terry Meeuwsen, made during today's episode of the 700 Club:

You know what they do in San Francisco, some in the gay community there they want to get people so if they got [AIDS] they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.

Even Jesus himself couldn't lift the sheer volume of holy-fuckery in that pronouncement — a fact that wasn't lost on the powers-that-be at the Christian Broadcasting Network, the TV network Robertson himself founded in 1961.

When the episode was uploaded online this afternoon, Robertson's comments had mysteriously disappeared.

This wasn't the first time CBN muzzled its figurehead — RightWingWatch notes that Robertson's not-so-tacit approval of spousal abuse was also censored — but maybe instead of waiting for the doddering bigot to say something even worse the network will finally put him on an ice floe and shove him off to sea.

UPDATE: Pat Robertson has released a classic non-apology regretting that his remarks "had been misunderstood," and blaming the misunderstanding on people who "do not listen to the context of remarks which are being said."

He also provided this additional bit of context:

In my own experience, our organization sponsored a meeting years ago in San Francisco where trained security officers warned me about shaking hands because, in those days, certain AIDS-infected activists were deliberately trying to infect people like me by virtue of rings which would cut fingers and transfer blood.

[video via RightWingWatch]


Alec Baldwin Flips Out on Paparazzo, Pinning Him to Car

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Alec Baldwin Flips Out on Paparazzo, Pinning Him to Car

It's a day ending in "day," which means that perennial hothead Alec Baldwin is mad about something! And this time it ended with a paparazzo pinned to the hood of a car, according to a report from the New York Daily News.

Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, were getting tea from a shop near their apartment when freelance photographer Paul Adao got a little too close for comfort. But it seems to have been no laughing matter (laughing—because Hilaria? You know? Hilarious? Right? [Exaggerated wink]), as photos of the incident show Baldwin pinning Adao to the hood of a nearby parked car. Both men called 911 on each other, but both parties declined to file a report and no arrests were made.

This isn't Baldwin's first run in with the paparazzi (or his second) - he was previously under a criminal investigation last year for attacking a photographer while trying to obtain a marriage license in 2012. Charges were ultimately dropped by the Manhattan District Attorney.

Welcome to Howie Kurtz’s Mid-Life Crisis

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Welcome to Howie Kurtz’s Mid-Life Crisis

Howard Kurtz is losing it. Today the quote-unquote media watchdog published 527 words on FoxNews.com about the Hamptons photo shoot of Ben Bradlee’s daughter-in-law, Pari Bradlee, who apparently teaches yoga to Washington A-listers like Howard Kurtz. It’s not that Pari Bradlee’s precise arrangement of undergarments has nothing to do with the media (though, in fact, it does not); it’s that it has nothing to do with anything. It has no point; it has no angle; it has no news. There is nothing there. Except some boobies. Which, to be fair, is probably all Howard Kurtz is really interested in right now.

Kurtz, you see, is a gentleman of a certain age who recently lost all of his bearings, and all around the same time. Tina Brown fired him from The Daily Beast in May for imagining that gay basketball player Jason Collins hid his engagement to a woman from Sports Illustrated — a story for which he filmed himself giggling with frequent CNN co-commentator Lauren Ashburn. (Kurtz later submitted to an on-air interrogation by media reporters David Folkenflik and Dylan Byers.) Two months later, he suddenly departed CNN, where he had hosted Reliable Sources for the past 15 years, for Fox News, where he plans to host a similar media criticism show called MediaBuzz.

MediaBuzz. MediaBuzz.

Floating on the margins of Kurtz’s precipitous decline is his persistent relationship with Lauren Ashburn, editor of a media-news website called the Daily Download. Ashburn regularly appeared on-air with Kurtz at CNN and quickly followed him to Fox News. Kurtz routinely dodges inquiries about his exact role at the Daily Download, where he continues to film hours upon hours of amateur “media criticism” with Ashburn. (Here they are, for example, interviewing Paul Carr about “using Twitter to help kick the drinking habit.”) Furthermore, several former interns at the site recently told Gawker that Kurtz often line-edited their blog posts at Daily-Download.com. Whatever the precise details, Kurtz has devoted a stunning amount of time to this one obscure site, for which (he claims) he is paid on a “freelance” basis. And no one knows why.

Which brings us to today’s Media Matters interview with Washington Post columnist and mother-in-law of Pari Bradlee, Sally Quinn:

Asked why she believed Kurtz would write such a column, Quinn said she did not know, other than he could not find anything else to write about.

"I guess it's been a slow news week. I just don't know what he's up to, would I go after a friend's child? No," she said. "I don't think it had anything to do with anything. I think it was just a slow news day. There has been no personal animosity between Howie and me, none, never."

The key bit of context here is that, before Kurtz wrote for The Daily Beast, he wrote for The Washington Post. (Where he published some decent work!) That might explain why he chose to focus on the daughter-in-law of the paper’s vice president-at-large. Maybe. Or, like so many other adults who violently confront the basic fact that they are going to die, Kurtz just stopped giving a fuck. If so, more power to him. Good luck, Howie.

Contact the author of this post at trotter@gawker.com

[Art by Jim Cooke]

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Photo of Legless Marine Being Carried on Wife's Back Goes Viral

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Photo of Legless Marine Being Carried on Wife's Back Goes Viral

"I wouldn’t take it back ever," Jesse Cottle says, recalling that fateful day in 2009 when he stepped on an IED and blew off both his legs.

The 28-year-old Marine, who was stationed in Afghanistan at the time, told ABC News that, from that horrible incident came the happiest day of his life: The day he met his future wife.

Photo of Legless Marine Being Carried on Wife's Back Goes Viral

"If I hadn’t stepped on that IED I wouldn’t have met her," Jesse insists.

Indeed, it was on one of his first times out with his prosthetic legs after months of recovery that he came across Kelly.

The two were married in August of last year.

"His personality and who he is just outweighs his injuries by so much that you forget about it after a while," Kelly said.

In honor of their first year as husband and wife, Jesse and Kelly decided to have some professional portraits taken while visiting family in Boise, Idaho.

One of the photos, which shows Jesse being carried on Kelly's back, was posted by the photographer, Sarah Ledford, on her studio's Facebook page.

It went viral almost immediately.

Within hours the photo saw its Likes jump to 1,000 — then 5,000. At the time of writing, Jesse and Kelly's heartwarming photo has been liked nearly 10,000.

"America just fell in love with Jesse and Kelly," Ledford told KTVB.

"She’s physically carrying me, but there’s times where she’s carrying me emotionally," Jesse told ABC in response to the photo becoming worldwide phenomenon. " It’s a perfect representation of who Kelly is."

[photos via ShutterHappy Photography]

Customer Fined $500 for Swallowing Human Toe in Canadian Bar

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Customer Fined $500 for Swallowing Human Toe in Canadian Bar

An American man was fined $500 Saturday night after he swallowed a beloved human toe belonging to a Canadian bar.

The Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon apparently has a “famous Dawson City tradition” which involves drinking a shot of Yukon Gold whiskey with a withered old toe inside. In order to properly enjoy the “Sourtoe Cocktail,” the customer must touch their lips to the toe, which has been dehydrated and preserved in salt. To prevent theft or swallowing, the bar established a $500 fine.

According to Terry Lee, the bar's “toe captain” on duty that night, an American decided a simple lip touch wasn't enough, so he gulped down the entire toe. Lee told the CBC that the American, who reportedly had just collected his rent deposit, then placed the $500 fine in cash on his table and left.

Since the tradition began in 1972, an estimated 60,000 people have tried the Sourtoe Cocktail. The toe has been replaced eight times, due to theft, misplacement, or swallowing, though Lee says this is the first time its been swallowed intentionally.

Fortunately for future foot fetishists, the hotel had a back-up toe, though this is their last one (they're hoping for additional donations); to prevent another intentional swallowing, the hotel has raised the fine to $2,500.

To contact the author of this post, email taylor@gawker.com

[CBC/Image via Flickr]

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