Current events

Headline on sports profile:

"Midwaestern Values carry Celtics coach Brad Stevens"

Well, there goes Anthony's Weiner's best excuse:

Sex addiction has often made headlines, with celebrities blaming their romantic foibles on the condition. However, a new study questions the notion that people can truly be "addicted" to sex.

The new study from the University of California, Los Angeles, suggests that self-professed "addicts" may simply have a high sex drive.

Speaking of morons:

Gadzooks, it's Walker, Indiana Ranger!

When the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional discrimination to treat straight and gay married couples differently in states that recognized gay marriage, the obvious question was (and it was asked by a lot of people), well, what about same-sex couples in states that don't recognize gay marriage? Is it any less discriminatory to treat people differently in some states than it is in other states? Now, a federal judge in Ohio is pushing that very federalism button:

I try to keep my music and my politics separate. I have to. As someone on the right side of the political spectrum, I'd hardly get to hear any music at all otherwise. But I swear, these frickin' morons deserve to be boycotted:

Eeeeeuw!

Yeah, I know as a journalist that I have a vested interest in the First Amendment, but this scares me as an American citizen, too:

Increasingly, the First Amendment is coming under challenge — by the American public.

I've avoided weighing in on the Rolling Stone Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover-photo controversy. As someone said, the fuzzy line between fame and infamy always creates unease in us. And the only way to judge RS is to actually read the story and see what that says. And it's a mixed bag. It goes a little gushy on the "pain" he was feeling and how everybody failed him, but it does end up calling him the monster he is.

Sorry, Chris, but I don't accept you as my spokesman: