oatmeal: “LeBron over Kobe?! Jesus — are you ever lucky my religious upbringing forbids me from cracking you over your dumbass skull with a stainless steel serving ladle, is all I have to say.”

And by “torture,” we’re not talking about anything so severe as being wrapped in an Israeli flag, or confronted with a pulled pork sandwich, either: A Colorado fugitive is at the center of an investigation of kidnapping, murder, torture and child abuse that unraveled this week in a small Wisconsin town. Authorities say Michael Sisk, a 25-year-old former Grand Junction resident, was part of a roving band of identity thieves

From ABC’s Jake Tapper: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okl, claims he overheard Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barbara Boxer, D-Calf, chatting about how out of control talk radio had become. “They said we’ve got to do something about this,” Inhofe told a talk radio host. “That ‘these are nothing but far right wing extremists, we’ve got to have a balance, there’s got to be a legislative fix to this.’” I’m still

Bring on the next wave of nanny-statist junk science: Dave Taylor always knew his lust for playing “Fallout” and “Total Annihilation” bordered on the pathological. The video games would hold the West Hollywood software programmer in such a viselike grip that he often would play for 24-hour stretches, forestalling sleep, skipping meals and twisting himself in knots to delay bathroom breaks. “It’s super unhealthy,” he said. “But man, I’m just

The steel cage match! Time to break out the nuance, it looks like — particularly if you happen to be a labor-friendly leftist AND a supporter of the idea that socialism has failed largely because it hasn’t been correctly attempted. Because not only has Nobel Peace Prize winner and utopian socialist Lech Walesa committed the unpardonable sin of praising Ronald Reagan for freeing Poland from communism, but he has now

From the AP: BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful — and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France’s corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies. “It’s not a question of trust,” French lawmaker Pierre Lasbordes told The Associated Press. “We are friends with

In 1970, President Nixon signed legislation lowering the minimum voting age to 18. Since that time, 18-year olds have accounted for 113 presidential votes, 84 of them for Jimmy Carter, 14 for Al Gore, 12 for John Kerry, and 1 each for write in candidates Kurt Cobain, Lynyrd Skynyrd (discounted), and “that guy from the Subway commercials, because I think he’d add a really cool fixin’s bar to Air Force