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- Well, well, well, Jeremy Clarkson.
- 77-year-old Michigan pastor convicted of rape and sexual abuse of three underage girls. According to a prosecutor there was family pressure and pressure in the church to keep things quiet.
- Another day, another embarrassingly bonkers UKIP candidate: UKIP candidate who called David Cameron a ‘gay loving nutcase’ suspended. Be warned: the CAPS LOCK is almost as bad as the homophobia. Farage has literally claimed nutpicking: that the media are unfairly persecuting him by accurately reporting what his party's candidates are saying on social media.
- All together now... But What About Teh Menz!!1!11!.
- NewsCorp buys Harlequin. Yes, that Harlequin.
- Joel McHale drops anvils on everyone at the 2014 White House Correspondents Dinner. (Not as good as Colbert's, but it's going to be remembered.)
- Alabama's Chief Justice: The First Amendment only applies to Christians, because "Buddha didn’t create us, Mohammed didn’t create us..."
- The solution to driving down wages and working standards isn't to actually enforce labour law. No, it's cutting all funding to all public universities!
- Putin's special envoy to Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists' release of hostages "testifies to (their) courage and humanism."