Karen Alloy Bacon Lover

She's funny.

I decided to go with this online dating clip instead of "Boner Killer!", which was a little over the top (unless you're Scott Eric Kaufman, then it's f**king great):

NewsBusted: 'Census: 50m Hispanics in U.S.'

Via Theo Spark:

Andrew Klavan: The One State Solution

It's Klavan on the Culture:

NewsBusted: '7-year-old caught with heroin'

Via Theo Spark:

Noodling Catfish

Heard about it for the first time the other day, at Wall Street Journal, "Long Arm of the Law Penalizes Texans Who Nab Catfish by Hand." And now here comes the video clip from Maggie's Farm, "Serious Fishin'":

Not sure if I'll be givin' that one a go ...?

Hoax? Viral Video Claims Dude Survives Lightning Strike — Twice!

At London's Daily Mail, "How unlucky can you get! Man survives being hit by lightning TWICE in remarkable CCTV footage":

Looks pretty real, but check MSNBC, "Lightning striking twice? Maybe not even once":

The first sign that the video might be fake, according to Vladimir Rakov, electrical engineer and co-director of the University of Florida Lightning Research Group, is that people almost never survive direct lightning strikes like the one shown in the video. "The chance of survival in the case of a direct strike is essentially zero," Rakov told Life's Little Mysteries. That's because lightning bolts emanating from storm clouds convey a gigajoule of energy, he explained — which is about enough to melt a ton of steel.

The vast majority of the 240,000 people who survive lightning strikes worldwide each year do not actually get hit directly. "They are struck by 'side flashes,'" Rakov said. "Lightning might strike a building near them, for example, and there's a side flash that jumps to them carrying a small fraction of the original lightning bolt's energy. In that case, they can survive and even walk away."