“The older brother was a marijuana smuggler, but the younger brother was a pothead and a dealer. The Boston Globe says three people admitted buying drugs from the 19-year-old. Perhaps if the drug laws were being vigorously enforced in liberal Massachusetts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could have been picked up by the authorities before joining his brother in the Boston bombing. Perhaps …

One Million Moms would like to remind you that jokes about bestiality make the baby Jesus cry.  From the site: “All joking aside, please look into adopting an adult pet in your area.”

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on April 3rd, 2009 and the first couples got their licenses four years ago tomorrow. Cute clip.

Hostess Brands announced yesterday that they will return from bankruptcy and resume production by summer.  The company shut down last year during a union strike that became emblematic of corporate greed. “We expect to be making and selling in July,” Michael Cramer, executive vice president of Hostess Brands LLC, told NBC News. “Probably the later half of the month before …

Country music legend George Jones has died at the age of 81. Jones landed more than 150 hits on the country chart during his decades-long career. Mr. Jones, who was nicknamed Possum for his close-set eyes and pointed nose, and later No-Show Jones for the concerts he missed during drinking and drug binges, was a legendary figure in country music. …

Ninth Circuit Court Judge Harry Pregerson yesterday ruled in favor of an Oregon lesbian who has been denied federal health benefits for her partner. The judge’s ruling does not overturn Oregon’s 2004 ban on same-sex marriage. Pregerson ruled on a narrow personnel case in which Alison Clark appealed the denial of benefits for her partner, Anna Campbell, under the Federal …

The Associated Press recaps the states most in play: Delaware: The state’s House approved a bill Tuesday legalizing same-sex marriage on a 23-18 vote. The bill now moves to the Senate. It has the support of Democratic Gov. Jack Markell. Delaware approved same-sex civil unions last year. New Jersey: The Democratic-led legislature is expected to attempt to override Republican Gov. …

The silliest thing ever.  And probably a daylong earworm. You might recall My Robot Friend from their wonderful 2002 track, We’re The Pet Shop Boys, which was later covered by Robbie Williams and the Pet Shop Boys themselves. I still play the original often.

The non-evil Fischer’s Twitter profile: “Father, web designer, nerd, game designer/publisher, Catholic. Co-founder of Nevermore Games.”

House Speaker John Boehner’s future son-in-law is a furriner. With waist-length dreadlocks.  And one misdemeanor nothing pot arrest that the Freepers are going nuts over.  The happy couple is registered at Williams-Sonoma. There’s no part of this story that isn’t funny to me and I feel bad about that.

Imprisoned WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has been named one of this year’s grand marshals for San Francisco Pride. Pride’s electoral college, which is made up of former grand marshals, has selected Army Private First Class Bradley Manning as its choice for grand marshal. Manning has admitted to leaking 700,000 classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks and is facing court-martial. He …

Secondary use: Bouncy Castle. Source.

The Mormon Church has posted a statement in which they back the Boy Scouts USA plan to allow openly gay Scouts, but not gay leaders. Here is the statement in full: Over the past several weeks BSA has undertaken the difficult task of reviewing its membership standards policy. In their own words, this undertaking has been ‘the most comprehensive listening …

“If you didn’t already know that Sims was the first openly gay member elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, in 2012, you might have guessed it from that remark. After all, shouldn’t it be the straight males in the Pennsylvania House, who care most about women’s reproductive health? But no: Those men helped pass House Bill 818, which would ban …

Above is the first page of a “science” test reportedly give to a fourth grade class at a Christian school in South Carolina.  After receiving an email from a man claiming to be the father of the student, Snopes has rated the story as “probably true.”  The father says he won’t identify the school until June, after which he says …

“Dear Marriage Supporter: The news this week is tough. I’m not going to sugar coat it. In Rhode Island, all five Republican state senators joined the Democrats in the state senate to pass a same-sex marriage bill. It now goes back to the House which had previously passed a gay marriage bill and the governor has promised to sign it. …

The show was actually this week: The 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition raised a staggering $4,250,542 — eclipsing the previous high of $3,734,129 set in 2007. The grand total was announced April 23, 2013, after six weeks of intensive fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS by 47 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies. With a standing-room-only audience filling Broadway’s Minskoff …

Heavy stubble, that is. According to one study. Men may now think twice about reaching for a razor. A new study shows that facial hair says a lot about a man and that attractiveness peaks at the “heavy stubble” phase. Researchers photographed 10 men at four stages of beard growth: clean shaven, 5-day “light” stubble, 10-day “heavy” stubble (shown), and …