In The News

[Content note: Homophobia, terrorism]

It's Monday and I Want a Cheezeburger:

The Supreme Court has ruled criminal suspects can be subjected to a police DNA test after an arrest, before a trial and a conviction. Obviously.

The Indiana Youth Group, an LGBT youth support group, is celebrating a big win after a judge ordered their specialty license plates to be reinstated after they were halted last year by some bigoted douchebags.

Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the long-running 1970s television series All in the Family, died Friday of natural causes. She was 90.

Boy Scouts wore their uniforms Sunday as they marched in Utah's gay pride parade, defying a leader of the organization who had said they couldn't do so under the organization's guidelines.

Michael Douglas has revealed that his throat cancer was apparently caused by performing cunnilingus.

Lou Reed, songwriter, poet and vocalist with the Velvet Underground, had a liver transplant last month.

An official of a northern Indiana animal shelter has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 from the organization. What a douchebag.

Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey has died.

And lastly: WHY THE FUCK IS STEVEN SEAGAL INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION OF THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGS???


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