Jonah Lehrer, a disgrace and a bullshit artist, has gotten (another?) book deal, because white men fail upward. Lehrer, who was revealed to have fabricated quotations in his 2012 book about Bob Dylan, as well plagiarized himself and others for the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Wired, the Boston Globe, and the Guardian is working on a book with a UCLA professor about "how we think and behave differently on screens." (How do we behave, Jonah?)

Despite Lehrer's corrosive inability to generate original content of discernible meaning, the number of humiliating editor's notes appended to his name, and the fact copies of his Bob Dylan book, titled Imagine: How Creativity Works were recalled and pulped, Portfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim still thinks the the Jonah Lehrer brand is a wise business investment. He released a glowing statement about his new author today. "Jonah Lehrer is one of the most gifted nonfiction writers of his generation," he wrote. "No responsible publisher could entirely overlook his past mistakes, but the prospect of working with him was also fantastically appealing."

It's unclear how the workload of the project will be divided between Lehrer and his co-author, UCLA professor Shlomo Benartzi, who studies behavioral decision-making.

Last we heard of ol' Jo, he had sold a book about the redemptive power of love to Simon & Schuster. "We believe in second chances," Simon & Schuster editor Jonathan Karp told the Times. It was then revealed that Lehrer had plagiarized that proposal. According to New York magazine, a draft of the love book has been turned in, but there is no publication date attached.

So now Lehrer's getting a third chance. And a co-author. Nice.

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Tonight on TV we're back in the thick of it for about another month, before the late-fall episode orders dry up and it's all awards and holiday specials. One of my favorite times of year, actually, because almost everything is running without interruption, even the lamented burn-offs like wonderful Selfie and those kinds of things, but also because reality cable tends to get bonkers right around now, because November Sweeps used to matter, whereas now nothing matters, and everybody's just building in the bones of a dinosaur, and we are the ones reaping the benefits of that, so let's get to it.

At 7/6c. Nickelodeon introduces its new series 100 Things to Do Before High School, which is a about a tween Bucket List: "For this group, growing up means trying everything and taking chances while they still can." Before the grind of high school, apparently, saps them of the will to "try" things and take "chances." Anyway the girl's best friends' names are Fenwick and Crispo, which is vastly more offensive than the show's premise. How dare you.

AT 8/7c.

• The Flash meets a girl who is a bomb, which necessitates bringing Clancy Brown into town along with his sneaky supersoldiers, while
• Eliza goes after Henry's new GF for some spurious-ass reasons on Selfie, and
• Bad Girls Club is going with "Rocky-ing the Boat" as an episode title, there's
• Two more hours of The Voice's Live Playoffs, or if watching children flip and stack pancakes is more your deal,
• Masterchef: Junior Edition forces children to do so, then create pie.

AT 9/8c.

• New Girl tries to get with the guy from Cloverfield, so she makes Nick pretend to be gay; in less surprising/awful scenarios, Winston gets on Coach's nerves and Schmidt obsesses on Cece's breasts, and then
• Mindy's latest Project—pissing off Rhea Perlman every week—continues, this time by catching her shoplifting. (Note: Peter is still on this show. Followup: Why.)
• In ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. it's time for Coulson's weird writing to be a thing, now that people start turning up dead with his weird writing on them.
• Supernatural hits its two-hundredth episode in a row of nonstop pandering.
• Masterchef Canada explores what it means to master being a chef in Canada, while as it turns out
• Oxygen's Nail'd It is a competition show! That makes so much more sense. Downside, their grand prize is a hundred grand. Which is more money than I have in my pocket, but kind of depressing in today's high-stakes world of everything being a reality show.
• Such as History's Curse of Oak Island, which this week has up and titled itself "Return to the Money Pit," which just makes that show even more confusing because if they know there is no buried treasure there, why have they spent two seasons of a TV show looking for it?
• Kind of like the third and final part of the Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion, which God willing is going to at least feature some fucked up looking pets.
• If you enjoy the scenario of being trapped among high school bitches but don't enjoy remedial readers you might also explore Degrassi on Teen Nick, or if their fresh, unfucked-with Canadian faces are not to your liking, there's always
• True Tori on Lifetime, but really aren't you, just like everybody else, going to be watching
• 19 Kids & Counting, a show about just regular people with totally normal ideas about sex and parenthood and clothing that flatters the countenance. I have never seen this show, I have no idea what it brings up in people but whatever it is, it seems to push some folks' buttons so hard it could wreck 'em.

AT 10/9c.

• MTV's got Awkward. and Faking It, or what we're calling 100 Things Not to Do After Middle School, while
• Chopped has a special Family Thanksgiving episode, and
• Prison Wives Club learns that there are quote "No Babies Behind Bars."
• On Forever, which recently got a full pickup, Henry discovers S&M for the first time even though he is magically hundreds of years old, and on
• Sons of Anarchy, some whiny garbage person gets a tattoo or kills somebody instead of getting a real job, but at least on
• CBS's Person of Interest, the people are interesting: It's right there in the name.
• Speaking of names, History Channel's #1 show about searching for giants, Search for the Lost Giants, has named its second episode "A Photo, a Tooth, the Truth?"
• Which still leaves me with less questions, even though it is all questions that are themselves questionable, than the TLC Special Virgin Coaches.

What is that about? A Photo, a Tooth, the Truth, Panama. It's questions all the way down. I cannot wait to see it. What if you were watching that and it was like the lightbulb over a person's head that says "I should become a doula!" only instead of that, it's "virgin coach." Coaching people on ethics in gaming journalism, or how to stop worrying about them. One or the other. Maybe you have the untapped potential within you right now to coach the shit out of some virgins, just lying fallow, as in the Parable of the Talents or the Parable of the Gomer Pyle's Singing Voice.

Then at 10:30/9:30c. it's a new episode of USA's second great comedy Benched, versus TruTV's disarmingly direct ("tru") show about being a grownup, How to Be a Grownup. This one covers "Dining, Doctors & Decorating," also known as the "three D's" (of being a grownup).

If you haven't ever decorated a home, seen a doctor, or been to dinner, I suggest you tune into TruTV tonight—if in fact it is a channel on your TV, I'm still not entirely clear on what it is—at 10:30/9:30 Central Standard Time, so there will be no surprises down the road.

Nobody forgets a Surprise D, I can tell you that for sure.

At 11/10c. you've got Happyland, now halfway through its first season, and on a time-traveling Watch What Happens: Live, it's Dick Cavett and Megan Mullally. I love those two. My grandmother got me hooked on Dick Cavett when I was just tiny, and of course his hot take on gender bias was a huge part of Free to Be You & Me when he talked about his dog's journey of gender as a lived experience. Listen sometimes a dog is a plumber, sometimes a dog drives a van, sometimes a dog is a cowboy. Don't essentialize the dog, that's what I learned from Dick Cavett: Barbie was an astronaut once, now she's a forest fairy. You see what I'm saying. You can be anything.

From Megan Mullally I learned if you wanna marry Nick Offerman you're gonna put up with a lot.

Finally, at midnight or eleven depending, Syfy will play the last episodes of its smalltown movie-folly documentary Town of the Living Dead, in which Robert Englund visits and is the usual prince of a man that he always is and saves the whole town. He really brings so much dignity and honor to the whole horror-genre, comic-convention, fandom industry, that whole thing. It's beautiful.

Never forget where you came from, that's what I learned from Robert Englund. Like for me, I came from Texas and the American Southwest and just like a very minor amount of hard knocks; while Robert Englund, he came from the boiler room to wreak vengeance on the children of those who had wronged him. And now neither of us is married to Nick Offerman. So there you are.

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In the fall of 1964, the New York Herald Tribune ran a story with the headline, "FBI Chief Calls Martin Luther King 'The Most Notorious Liar in Country.'" J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, had found himself on the defense after King, perhaps the most prominent civil rights activist of the 1950s and 60s, accused the bureau of not enforcing civil rights law and using Jim Crow-era tactics to suppress blacks. Hoover's real reasoning for labeling King a "notorious liar," however, was based on information he and few others were privy to: the details of King's sex life.

Despite knowledge among King's inner circle, he had never been publicly known as a lothario—but Hoover planned to out him, with hopes of soiling his reputation and derailing the civil rights movement. The Times Magazine recently published an uncensored letter from the FBI to King. In it, the author threatens to release news of King's extramarital affairs, information which was ascertained through FBI wiretaps in King's home, office, and various hotel rooms.

The letter was written anonymously—it is later confirmed by the Senate to be the work of Hoover despite the intended authorial misdirection—and has long been proof of Hoover's malicious crusade against the celebrated activist. Portions detailing King's sex life were previously redacted—until earlier this summer, when Yale historian Beverly Gage found a copy "tucked away in a reprocessed set of [Hoover's] official and confidential files at the National Archives."

"Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure," the letter warns. "You will find yourself in all your dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk exposed on the record for all time."

But it didn't stop there. The final paragraph hints at an attempt to get King to commit suicide. "King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is... There is but one way out for you. You better take it..."

Ultimately, the FBI's threats proved weak, and King's legacy would remain intact. Gage writes in the Times:

Luckily, in 1964 the media were far more cautious. One oddity of Hoover's campaign against King is that it mostly flopped, and the F.B.I. never succeeded in seriously damaging King's public image. Half a century later, we look upon King as a model of moral courage and human dignity. Hoover, by contrast, has become almost universally reviled. In this context, perhaps the most surprising aspect of their story is not what the F.B.I. attempted, but what it failed to do.

Below, via the National Archives, the letter in its entirety.

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Point Reyes is one of Northern California's premier natural treasures, and Pandora's Tim Westergren wants a piece. The 48-year-old co-founder wants to retire on the peninsula. But his new neighbors aren't thrilled with his plans to clear a plot of forest to construct a mansion.

Nearby residents are complaining that what Westergren wants to build is too large for the area—and the constructions risks making the low-key community trendy amongst the wealthy.

Westergren originally purchased the property, which formerly housed Russian Orthodox monks, in 2008. But in 2013, he reached out to his neighbors, letting them know that his family was ready to start building on the land. Via the Marin Independent Journal:

"We wanted to check in, say hello and let you know how excited we are to begin the process of building our home in your lovely neck of the woods," they wrote. "Our program will be light on the land, and will be sustainably designed and built. We are big believers in integrating a home with its natural environment — minimizing the disturbance of both the land and the surrounding community."

Those assurances didn't amount to much. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Westergren submitted plans for a significant development:

The proposal, submitted by Hidden Dragon LLC to Marin County's planning department, lays out what would be one of West Marin's biggest homes, according to county officials, with a six-bedroom, 10-bath residence connected by decks to a pool house, a meditation hut and a caretaker unit.

Point Reyes is popular with artists and outdoorsy types. Because Westergren's 8,297-square-foot compound is strikingly larger than surrounding homes (many are less than 1,000-square-feet, the Chronicle reports), there are concerns that his home will usher in a wave of gentrification:

"It's putting a toe in the water for McMansions in this area," said Ellen Shehadeh, a writer and editor for the weekly West Marin Citizen. "I feel like it could be a precedent, the beginning of something that we would not want here. The next person with a lot of money could do the same thing."

Residents tell the Marin Independent Journal that they are preparing to fight the development. Westergren is starting to feel the backlash, and has indicated he's willing to listen to their objections.

Good idea. Listen and learn, just like your fellow tech execs.http://valleywag.gawker.com/kevin-rose-is-...

To contact the author of this post, please email kevin@valleywag.com.

Rendering: Kurtis Alexander, via the SF Chronicle

America's oldest living veteran, 108-year-old Richard Overton, is living his best life.

The World War II vet—who, if we're being frank, really lays out a solid plan for living—says the secret to happy old age is whiskey.

Overton used to start his days with some whiskey in his coffee, and he still adds a teaspoon from time-to-time. "It's just like medicine," he said. Overton smokes cigars daily, too. "I'm smoking one now," he said from Austin.

The 108-year-old still lives in the Texas home he bought for $4,000 after the war. He told reporters he generally spends his Irish coffee-buzzed days doing yard work, cruising around town in his truck, and giving all the pretty widows rides to church.

And then?

"I may drink a little [whiskey] in the evening too with some soda water, but that's it," Overton said in a recent interview. "Whiskey's a good medicine. It keeps your muscles tender."

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"I love sharing my world with people,' Kim Kardashian says in this month's issue of Paper, also sharing with people a photo shoot intended to remind the world that she, too, has an ass.

BTW, this is our new cover. cc @KimKardashian http://t.co/wfBvNeCewt pic.twitter.com/bVyC1nJDND

— PAPER Magazine (@papermagazine) November 12, 2014

The issue was shot by Jean-Paul Goude, a French photographer known for his high-end brand work and iconic Grace Jones photos. The magazine also released a second, less oily cover—this one an homage to Goude's "Champagne Incident."

how do i get both covers to hang in my gallery pic.twitter.com/AGKGZ37Cde

— LW (@lindseyweber) November 12, 2014

Says Kim, "And they say I didn't have a talent...try balancing a champagne glass on your ass LOL"

President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced from Beijing today a groundbreaking joint plan for both countries to cut carbon emissions ahead of the global climate treaty expected to be finalized next year. The pact is China's first-ever pledge to stop the country's carbon emissions from growing.

Under the new accord, the United States will step up its plan to cut carbon emissions—previously 17 percent of 2005 levels by 2020—to between 26 and 28 percent by 2025. China has agreed to a 2030 deadline for its carbon emissions to peak, "with the idea being that its emissions would then start falling," the Associated Press reports.

"This is a major milestone in the U.S.-China relationship," Obama, flanked by Xi, said from Beijing. "It shows what's possible when we work together on an urgent global challenge."

The United States and China are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases—climate experts have said that until the two countries reach an agreement to cut pollution, others will be reluctant follow suit. From the Associated Press:

Scientists have pointed to the budding climate treaty, intended to be finalized next year in Paris, as a final opportunity to get emissions in check before the worst effects of climate change become unavoidable. Each nation is supposed to pledge to cut emissions by a specific amount, although negotiators are still haggling over whether those contributions should be binding.

Last month, the European Union said it would cut its emissions 40 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. Taken together, the U.S, China and the EU account for more than half of global emissions, and there were already indications that the world's next-biggest emitter — India — might be feeling the pressure. "The international community will now expect India to make some firm commitments," said Jairam Ramesh, the former head of India's Environment Ministry.

"This is, in my view, the most important bilateral climate announcement ever," David Sandalow, a former top environmental official at the White House and the Energy Department, told USA Today.

[Image via AP]

Noted Kim Kardashian wannabe Naya Rivera (of Glee "fame") possibly trashed Kim on Instagram last night because eh, who knows. She pulled the Mom Card. If screenshots are to be believed, Naya commented this on Kim's pic of her naked Paper cover:

Naya normally doesn't...what? Post thirsty comments on Instagram? That's good, I guess. Her comment is not unlike @sadcaramel1's, who writes, "sad you are a mom.... You don't get it."

Naya's "fans" first noticed her comment and reposted it on Instagram and Twitter. Naya herself has not confirmed the comment, and Kim has not responded. Obviously.

[Photos via Instagram/Daily Mail, Getty]

Take a look at the Wikipedia page for fisting. I'll wait.

OK. Now check out pegging. When you're done there, have a gander at gokkun; after that, deep throating; and then maybe mammary intercourse, frot, tribadism, and tea bag (sexual act).

Those with a taste for the kinky are encouraged to check out gonzo pornography, and those with a taste for the stinky might enjoy anilingus. Top, bottom, and versatile is there for gay men and adventurous straights, and cum shot—well, let's just say if you're a fan of Kris Jenner or Liza Minnelli, it might be right up your alley.

Keep clicking: On woman on top you can see a woman on top; on erotic lactation there are two women, standing side by side. Threesome presents an almanac of positions and combinations, unlike missionary position, which is pretty much the same, no matter how you illustrate it (unless of course it's anal missionary). Before you command-W, be sure to pass by deep-throating for some impressive acrobatics, and if you truly can't get enough, pop into doggy style on your way out.

You have just taken a partial tour of the oeuvre of Seedfeeder, Wikipedia's greatest artist of sex acts. Greatest retired artist of sex acts. The pseudonymous illustrator, working as a volunteer, has contributed 48 of drawings of various sex acts to 35 English-language articles on the free encyclopedia by my count (and dozens more international articles), including fingering, oral nipple stimulation, and something called the Viennese Oyster.

(To see unedited, NSFW versions of some of Seedfeeder's most notable works, see our gallery post here.)

His style is unmistakable, and nearly as striking as his subject matter: Clean vector graphics, gradient colors, blank and ominous backgrounds. Seedfeeder has written that he was inspired by airline safety manuals, with which he shares a kind of calming sterility. Instead of inflating their life preservers during an emergency landing, Seedfeeder's placid crash-test dummies are engaged in coitus, but the point is the same: Airline brochures and the Wikipedia articles Seedfeeder chooses to illustrate are both here to teach you about what it's like when you get fucked.

The legend of Seedfeeder begins six years ago with an image called Semfac01.png, still available on Wikipedia. It depicts a facial: At the left of the frame, we see a white woman, face unsettlingly forlorn, covered in semen, still dripping from the erect penis of a black man, standing with his upper body out of frame. It's maybe a bit rough, as would characterize the early style of any master, but the hallmark's of Seedfeeder's work are there—the gentle light, the quiet characterizations. Seedfeed uploaded the PNG in early July 2008. Within days it was added^[1] to the Wikipedia page for "Facial (sex act)."

A month later, a Wikipedian with the handle Exxolon came calling, in a message titled "Bukkake image" left on Seedfeeder's now-archived talk page: "Hi - we could use an image on this article too. Any chance you could make one? Thanks." A few days after that: "Image request - Pearl necklace (sexuality)." And then: "Also Anal–oral sex." Another Wikipedian, 62 Misfit, chimed in: "Also Coprophilia."

On August 25, not even two months after his first image, Seedfeeder was awarded "The Graphic Designer's Barnstar." Wikipedia's greatest sex illustrator had arrived.

Over the next several years, Seedfeeder worked tirelessly, fielding requests for ever-more esoteric sex acts and batting away criticism from other Wikipedians on his talk page—a public forum that serves as the site's main mechanism for communications between editors. His supporters called him "top notch" and "the prodigal artist," showering him with Wikipedia's so-called "barnstar" awards, while his detractors said his work was needlessly explicit, or misogynistic, or—in the case of the original facial image, with its big black dick and abused-looking white woman—racist. Several times, he pronounced his retirement from the Wikipedia game, then came back shortly after and churned out more images.

Meanwhile, outside the insular Wikipedia community, a cultish fascination with Seedfeeder was budding. In 2009, a popular online-art newsletter called B3ta devoted a section to the the "particularly prolific contributor of sex-related drawings." The Polish magazine Przegląd used his anal-oral image on its cover in July 2010, and the next year, a popular Reddit thread dubbed him "Wikipedia's great artist." At around the same time, journalists, a grad student writing a research paper, and a company looking to hire Seedfeeder began littering his talk page with requests—from the looks of it, none of them were successful—and last year, several of his works were immortalized on a Cracked.com list called "The 6 Most Terrifying Sex Illustrations on Wikipedia."

Seedfeeder's skill as an illustrator is self-evident; his gifts as an artist eerily clear. But his celebrity and notoriety are at least as dependent on his work ethic—and his luck to have found an artistic milieu uniquely well-suited to his work. A Wikipedia editor named Flyer22, who has worked on several sex articles, explained to me that drawings or computer animated images of sex acts are more likely to be accepted than photos, and that may be why Seedfeeder was able plant his works on so many different pages. "Our readers," Flyer22 wrote via email, "Are less inclined to call such images 'porn' when they think of them as simply drawings, artistic paintings or as cartoons."^[2]

Even more importantly, Seedfeeder understands and is receptive to his audience. When an image featuring a black woman wearing an engagement ring and white man with no ring was pulled down from the Wikipedia article on fellatio after complaints that it enforced "negative stereotypes of promiscuity in African-American females," Seedfeeder was there with another, less polarizing picture of a white couple to replace it. That interracial blow job, like several other of his works, is now absent from the English-language site, relegated to international backwaters like the Belarusian Wikipedia and Luxembourg Wiktionary.^[3]

Though Flyer22 sang the praises of Seedfeeder's drawings as educational tools, she was reluctant to acknowledge any purely aesthetic value. "I don't necessarily see what is aesthetically pleasing about them, except that some people find pornography aesthetically pleasing," she wrote. "Or, in the case that his images are of white people, some people have a prejudice there and would prefer to look at white people."

I turned to Paddy Johnson, a longtime art critic who edits the blog Art F City. Because Seedfeeder's illustrations aren't presented as art qua art, she declined to evaluate them as such, but did offer some insights and compliments about the images' composition. For one, they are anatomically correct: heads fit on bodies, appendages are appropriately sized, and "use of perspective is rendered effectively." A figure-drawing teacher would be impressed.

There's also that distinctive, artificial flatness. In 2009, Seedfeeder wrote on his talk page that he creates his illustrations using a Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop, and Johnson guessed that he achieves the look through use of a particular filter. "It appears to be a filter that lowers the pixel count, creating obvious gradients. Artists use these filters too," Johnson wrote in an email, citing the works of artist Alex Brown.

In particular, she praised an image uploaded in 2011 called Wiki-POV-pornography, which depicts a woman going down on a man as he films her with a camcorder slung over his shoulder. Looming in the background, we see what the camera sees: a tight shot of the woman looking up; the man's penis in veiny detail. "It's the most complicated image of the lot," Johnson wrote, "And does a good job monumentalizing the blow job."

Typically, Seedfeeder's characters have sex in a void. In Wiki-POV-pornography, they have a purpose: they are making a porno. We know this because the man is holding a camera. The use of props to create context and the simultaneous presentation of multiple perspectives make this the most ambitious work in the Seedfeeder canon, and if you think about it for too long, it almost starts to feel like a meta-commentary on his own illustrations or the porn they so closely resemble. Is the fellated cameraman a stand-in for the artist? The viewer? Both? If you'll indulge a fanciful comparison, it recalls a similarly monumental image by another master at the top of his game: Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas.

But who is Seedfeeder? The interview request I left on his talk page went either unseen or ignored, and the only information I've been able to glean about him comes from his communications with other editors, archived versions of his user page, and a brief FAQ. We know he's a heterosexual male, and that he's more interested in drawing women than he is in men. We know he's "the product of an interracial union" and that, as of 2012, he doesn't display his work online outside Wikipedia. He seems to have an interest in a particular brand of tequila. We know he's a native English speaker, and he is probably a mechanical engineer by profession. By his own admission, he's not a professional artist, but an "avid amateur."

Beyond that, concrete details are scant, but from his collected writings, a hazy picture emerges. Seedfeeder, like many Wikipedians, seems to have an almost religious devotion to what diehards tend to call "the project," coupled with a disillusionment about what he sees as a puritanical regard for sex and other controversial topics from his fellow editors. He is strident about his principles, and when sensitive issues come up—especially involving race or gender—he is dismissive and salty.

In 2008, a person commenting from an anonymous IP address wrote that Seedfeeder's facial illustration "contains what can be perceived as rape" and that it "could be perceived as racial stereotyping by the image of a dark skinned male ejaculating on a light skinned female." He responded disdainfully (emphasis mine):

As drawn, the female in the facial picture has a neutral facial expression, this was done intentionally. Facials are viewed as a pleasurable and harmless activity by some... while percieved as a hostile perverted act by others. The image was created to strike a balance between the two opposing points of view. The fact that the subject is maintaining eye contact and is not being physically restrained in any manner, should indicate some degree of willingness. As for the interracial aspect... the prejudices and concerns of the small-minded do not concern me.

Several years later, in a conversation with another user who had edited one of his images, Seedfeeder displayed reverential deference to Wikipedia's Creative Commons philosophy while lamenting that surrendering the fate of his work to the community led to censorship and derivatives that were "lacking in artistic ability":

I have uploaded the illustrations I have created with the full understanding that they may be altered or manipulated by fellow wiki editors. My "blessing" is not required. Though admittedly, to date, I have found derivatives of my work either to be lacking in artistic ability, or needless croppings to suit a particular POV agenda.

Seedfeeder's conflicted ideas about Wikipedia—this place would be beautiful, if only there weren't so many prudes, hacks, and cretins—are best summed up in a mission statement he published to his user page in 2008 (sic throughout):

What I feel to be Wikipedia's greatest asset, is viewed by many to be its greatest weakness; that the project is not censored and encompasses the entire human experience. For the most part wiki works. Where it breaks down is when censorship and POV rear their ugly heads.

Many Wikipedians may find the images I produce to be offensive, for which I apologize in advance. But there is indeed method to the madness. Like it or not, "distasteful" topics such as: sex, violence, and war make up a large portion of human existence. As a whole, we are very visual beings. Nothing makes a subject/event more real than visually experincing it. That is a simple truth. For those who would say "the discription is enough...", I have to ask: "Is it really?". Would you be completely satisfied with a description of the Eifel Tower e, the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty? Think before you censor.

I first came across Seedfeeder after my editor made fun of me for not knowing what "pegging" meant. It's easy to imagine his fans in a similar situation, stumbling across, say, this double penetration image, and needing to know more. That's pretty much how it went for Joshua Haddow, a UK-based journalist and documentarian who tried to contact the mysterious artist in 2012. "The illustrations had this amazing appeal of running the line between diagrammatical, like something out of a biology textbook, and basically purposefully erotic in style," Haddow told me via email of his first encounter. "I mean, they're approved by the community to feature as part of educational articles on Wikipedia. However, if you look at the details, particularly some of the less vanilla positions—I'm thinking bukkake, gangbangs, frotting, that kind of thing—you can clearly see influence from pornography."

It's true: if you had a only a selfless, academic interest in teaching readers about the mechanics of fucking, why would you give your models perfectly plucked pubes, attractive physiques, and evocative o-faces? Seedfeeder's spiel about images of famous landmarks only rings true because he's talking this Eiffel Tower, not that one. Why does the bukkake article even need an illustration, much less one that looks like a still from a violent cartoon porno? The text description—"a sex act portrayed in pornographic films, in which several men ejaculate on a woman, or another man"—is more than enough to get the point across, and xHamster is right there if you're truly that much more of a visual learner.

But Seedfeeder insists he isn't interested in getting people off. When one editor asked him to illustrate a straight couple engaged in stand-up 69, closing the request with "I'd really like to see that," he replied:

I typically create illustrations (by request) for specific articles, not for a specific sexual act. While I have no doubt that you would "really like to see that", it doesn't appear to be a subject that is in any great demand. Though I have created other illustrations that could be applied to the 69 (sex position), I'm not sure how your new request would provide anymore knowledge or enlightenment to the relevant articles. Thanks

Still, controversy about explicitness and sexual power dynamics persisted throughout his career, as much as the arguments of a few anonymous people about a picture of a group of men masturbating onto a woman can be called controversy. That original, sad facial image, for instance, was at one point terribly edited to make the giver a white guy, and now sits near the bottom—in a section labeled "criticisms"—of the article it once topped. Much like the fellatio page, the facial article now features another, friendlier Seedfeeder image, in which the recipient smiles widely and wipes semen from her eyebrow.

For now, Seedfeeder's story ends with an image, too. In 2012, after several false alarms and complaints about Wikipedia's decision-making process, he exited the site for good, exhausted, leaving an illustration called Wiki-so-long.png as a final communiqué. One of only two works that doesn't expressly address sex, it features a freckled Asian woman blowing a seductive goodbye kiss to the camera, fingers extended like five stubby phalli. Below it, on a user page that designates the artist as officially retired, lies what reads like a cryptic, nerdy cunnilingus joke: "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

^[1] The anonymous IP address that first added Seedfeeder's work to the page for Facial has very few other edits. One of them is to Seedfeeder's own collection of work on his profile page, indicating that Seedfeeder possibly, even likely, hoisted himself onto the Wikipedia sex-illustration stage.

^[2] The story of an exhibitionist Wikipedia editor named Jiffman, whose long battle to place a self-sucking self-portrait at the top of autofellatio page was documented by Jack Stuef in a piece for BuzzFeed, shows how difficult placing an explicit photograph can be.

^[3] A bizarre side note to the saga of the fellatio image appears to involve a cameo from Elliot Rodger, the mens' rights-obsessed shooter who killed six UCSB students earlier this year. An entry on the article's talk page details an instance last year in which a rogue editor named ElliotR1 removed a photo that had temporarily replaced Seedfeeder's illustration:

The actual answer to this is rather more surprising. It turns out that Elliot Rodger, who recently went on a stabbing and shooting spree in Isla Vista lately that left six dead, started a successful drive with his account (User:ElliotR1, who began by editing his father's article, and is the precise account name used by Rodger on OKcupid[1]) to remove the image on February 20 2013 with this edit. After threats and then the reality of a block to his account for trying to do the same sort of removal five times at footjob, ElliotR1 disappeared from the scene, but an IP filed an edit request on March 2 2013 for the same action.

It's true that Rodger used the same handle on OKCupid, and a perusal of ElliotR1's contribution history reveals that the first edit made by the owner of the account was the removal of an image from the article on the British journalist George Rodger, Elliot Rodger's grandfather. (The editor on the talk page incorrectly suggests George is Elliot's father.)

Few things capture the grandness and blandness of modern day Manhattan better than the unveiling of the "World's tallest Holiday Inn."

Muhammed "Max" Maqsood fended off a machete-wielding masked bandit from robbing his convenience store in Sunderland, England last week with a metal shutter pole. The 63-year-old shop owner lost part of his middle finger in the battle and the accused attacker is at large.

According to security footage taken at Max and Sons convenience store last Saturday and released by police, the masked man enters the shop with a three-foot machete, demanding money. "He was telling me 'give me the money, give me the money' and he showed me the big knife," Maqsood told SWNS. That's when Maqsood apparently grabbed the metal pole from the behind the counter and two dueled.

"He got me three times, but I used the pole twice and got him once on the shoulder and he ran away. It was a shock and I've never done anything wrong to anybody," Maqsood told the UK's Mirror. The robber apparently fled the store without having stolen anything.

Detective Sergeant Nick Lawrance told the Daily Mail that police are currently searching for the man in the mask, and they've released the "clearly distressing" security footage in hopes of identifying him.

Two things you remember from the '80s that now look completely different, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Radio Shack, have joined forces to sell you batteries. The only way you can tell we haven't stumbled through a wormhole to 25 years ago is that they're also trying to sell you flying drones.

May these familiar institutions of our childhoods carry on unceasingly, and may at least one of them eventually land a Super Bowl halftime show. (It could still happen, right? Right?)

[h/t Reddit]

Supernatural should have a broken back this morning, so hard was it sucking its own dick during last night's 200th episode. Entitled "Fan Fiction," it introduces us to this little bespectacled girl in a pre-magical girl school outfit who has written and is trying to stage a musical version of what she thinks has been happening in the show all along.

The episode includes the standard nods to its own past, including a Rolodex of its many title sequences (which I liked!) and references to its departed creator, Eric Kripke, and his aborted plan to end the show after season 5. But it is really about the fans. Or: A legion of all-girl, teenaged fans who so love Supernatural that they warp it in unseemly ways with their adoration (adding showtunes and homoerotic subtext).

Viewed simply, the plot is a deconstruction of the über-fan, with our Winchester boys as mirrors, beaming back the unprepossessing horror, now beleaguered in their world by a whole book series about themselves that no one thinks is real. It's meta.

But the really meta thing is: Supernatural should have ended five seasons ago, and it has almost actually ended since then. What has saved it, each time, are the fans—the same ones who turn out for all kinds of conventions and Q&As and write all kinds of fan fiction and draw all kinds of art.

None of this matters more than the storytelling itself, but here the fandom is the story being told; and Supernatural's version has been scrubbed to simplicity. At first the show is saying, This is not how it works! Literally saying that, right into the faces of the fans. But—because of the evil goddess Calliope and her scarecrow minion—the Winchesters come around to the idea of "transformative" fan works. They mention Destiel. They mention Wincest.

They do not talk about the nearly decade-long history of misogyny. Or queer-baiting—or even that the queer-baiting was the toll paid for all the rest of this merriness and madness. The assumption that the majority of Supernatural fans are young, white women who project sexual fantasies onto attractive, straight-seeming men goes unexamined.

All of this is really only "about" the fans in the sense that they—we—are made to watch it. It's masturbatory nonsense, climaxing twice: once, at the end, when the Winchesters decide to go back out on the road as hunters while listening to a theatrical rendition of "Carry On Wayward Son" (literally how the pilot ends, BTW); and, before that, when the audience gets sprayed in the face with goo.

[Video via The CW]

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Before Kim Kardashian's ass was all over the internet last night, her sister Khloe showed hers by posting a fun sex joke about the Ku Klux Klan on Instagram. She's since deleted the post, but she kept the tweet that linked to it.

"THE ONLY KKK...TO EVER LET BLACK MEN IN," reads the meme. Khloe posted it with the caption, "True." Get it?

Kourtney Kardashian's baby daddy Scott Disick also posted the meme with the caption "And a Jew." He is Jewish.

I think we can all agree that the lesson here is to stop posting memes.

[Photo via Instagram]

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In this clip from the upcoming documentary The Penalty, experts on all sides of the capital punishment issue discuss the astronomical amount of money required to execute people in America.

Individual states have spent billions of dollars—above and beyond the cost of keeping people in prison—to carry out executions. This is a choice.

The Penalty is a work in progress, by the same filmmakers that made One For Ten, a documentary series profiling people who have been released from death row. The film has a Kickstarter page, and fundraisers in New York City tonight and Washington, DC tomorrow.

After thirteen long seasons, a genuinely surprising amount of successful contest winners (three), one non-congressman, and who can forget William Hung, Randy Jackson is finally ending his tenure at American Idol.

Jackson announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying in a statement:

"I'm proud to have been a part of a series that discovered some incredible artists and will go down in history as one of the most successful television shows ever. A true original, Idol started it all. Onto what's next."

Ryan Seacrest survives Randy Jackson as the show's only remaining original cast member. American Idol's fourteenth season will begin in January with judges Grumpy Cat, Alex From Target, and the princess from Frozen.

[image via Getty]

A woman who nearly died of cardiac arrest last year is now facing bankruptcy because she was taken to the "wrong" hospital while unconscious. Although she has insurance, the medical center that saved her life is out-of-network.

For Megan Rothbauer, the difference between a $1,500 bill and a $50,000 one was roughly three blocks. The 29-year-old was treated at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis. Meriter Hospital, which was in her insurance network, is just down the street.

"I was in a coma. I couldn't very well wake up and say, 'Hey, take me to the next hospital.' It was the closet hospital to where I had my event, so naturally the ambulance took me there," she told News 3.

Her hospital bill, after being in a medically-induced coma for 10 days, was $254,000. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross Blue Shield had to pay its in-network rate, which covered more than half of that. She also negotiated with the hospital to cut the remainder by 90 percent.

That's huge, but it's still several times the $1,500 maximum she would have paid at the "right" hospital. And it doesn't include the bills from doctors, therapists and the ambulance, which bring her total out-of-pocket expenses up over 50 grand.

Rothbauer and her fiancé have postponed their wedding and are seriously considering filing for bankruptcy.

Her insurance company says there's nothing else it can do, as it has no contract with the hospital that treated her. And the hospital says that instead of focusing on her medical bills, she should just be grateful to be alive.

"When you're looking at saving a life, you're not looking at whether or not you can save them money," a rep for SSM, the healthcare system that includes St. Mary's, told 3 News.

"I can only do so much. The hospital can only do so much. And I think the best outcome is the person walked away from the emergency room."

Any problem less serious than death isn't really a problem. Cool, helpful philosophy for a healthcare business to have.

[h/t Reddit]

On November 1, WITI reporter Meghan Dwyer won a local television Emmy for her investigation of bullying within the public school system of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Last night, TVSpy’s Kevin Eck highlighted her remarkably forthcoming acceptance speech, which you can watch in the video above:

This is for all the kids that are bullied. Seriously, public schools suck. They’re horrible. They need to be held accountable. I tried to do this with Milwaukee Public Schools.

[Boos]

I love public schools. My kids will go there. But they’re—they need work. Sorry. That’s the story.

Well, not exactly. WITI’s vice president of news, John LaPorte, told Eck that Dwyer regretted her comments: “We have spoken with Meghan at length and she has made it very clear that she misspoke as she was caught up in the excitement of the evening.”

Local media’s relationship with Milwaukee Public Schools has been tense lately. In early October, MPS’s board of directors begged the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to reassign the paper’s education reporter, Erin Richards, who covers the school system for the daily paper. The board complained that Richards was “biased against MPS.”

You can watch Dwyer’s MPS investigation here.