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Things will be less shrill on The View.

That’s what she says, anyway. Via Washington Post: “I’ve considered it, because people have requested me considering it,” she told radio host Sean Hannity. “But I’m still waiting to see what the lineup will be and hoping that … there will be some new blood, new energy, not just kind of picking from the same old politicians in the state.” …

Gorgeous. Bischoff is in Amanda Fucking Palmer’s band.

Ian Millhiser at Think Progress reports that a company called Zombie Industries sells target practice mannequins which “bleed when shot!” Their latest model target is a “gun control lobbyist” which goes for $89.95. From the sales pitch: As a pro gun control lobbyist, this guy spent his days milling around Washington D.C. distorting the truth about guns & violent crimes. …

My headline may seem obvious, but I actually expected San Francisco to have jumped into first place after reading an endless stream of recent stories about the housing situation there. But as Gothamist points out, NYC’s average is skewed by all those new “ultra-luxury” jillionaire sky palaces. San Francisco doesn’t have quite so many places that rent in the five-figure …

From Steven Petrow’s Civil Behavior column in the New York Times comes this question: Q. Dear Civil Behavior: I’m 53, a daughter, a sister, a mother, a grandmother and a friend. And I am gay. I was raised in a conservative Southern Baptist Church in Tennessee, and I had spent a lifetime living in hiding and hating myself because of …

Donald Trump don’t want none of them furriners breaking down our red, white, and blue doors. Unless, of course, one of them happens to be an Eastern European model hottie that is half his age.

Elton John’s European tour has been put on indefinite hold as he prepares for appendicitis surgery. John, 66, was diagnosed with “appendix abscess surrounding retrocaecal appendicitis” after falling ill during the tour, publicist Gary Farrow said in a written statement. The surgery will be performed in the United Kingdom in “the coming weeks” after he undergoes an intensive course of …

And the hits keep coming! Via press release: Just two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois will file a motion for summary judgment, asking for a swift ruling in favor of the freedom to marry in Illinois. The filing will be immediately followed by …

The ACLU is on a ROLL today! Today the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation (ACLU-NCLF) announced plans to challenge North Carolina’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples by amending a federal lawsuit filed against the state last year on behalf of six same-sex couples and their children that challenges North Carolina’s ban …