13 apocalyptic pictures of Kiev's streets of rage

George Zimmerman is continuing his artistic renaissance by releasing a fiery painting of the special prosecutor who charged him in the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin.

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The painting depicts Florida State Attorney Angela Corey pinching her fingers together in red and orange hues. "I have this much respect for the 'American judicial system. Angie C," it reads.

As the New York Daily News points out, the painting copies an Associated Press photo of the moment when Corey publicly announced a second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman in April 2012.

Last month Zimmerman sold a painting of an American flag -- apparently copied from a Shutterstock image -- on eBay for $100,099.99.

A South Carolina woman was held on a domestic abuse charge for allegedly stabbing her common-law husband with a decorative ceramic squirrel when he came home late on Christmas Eve without any beer.

How beautifully absurd.

The details do nothing to diminish the delight:

According to the police report, Williams' 41-year-old husband set out to buy some beer late Tuesday night, but he returned home empty-handed because the stores were closed.

That enraged Williams, according to the report, and as her husband set about making himself a sandwich, she picked up the ceramic squirrel and conked him over the head with it. Then she stabbed him in the chest with it, the report said.

Magnificent.

The condition of the squirrel wasn't reported.

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In 2012, voters in Los Angeles County narrowly approved Measure B [PDF], a law that requires porn performers to wear condoms. Some fans of adult film fans complain that the use of condoms is distracting, and a number of studios are either ignoring the law or shooting outside of L.A. County. But one porno producer is going the high-tech route, digitally removing the prophylactic devices from its performers’ phalluses.

"The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war," wrote David Silvester to his local newspaper, the Henley Standard. "I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage bill."

Whew!

I was worried that the US had a monopoly on fundamentalist Christian idiots!

Firing squads proposed to solve drug shortage

Mad Max times are nearly upon us.

A pair of North Carolina Republican leaders, including a U.S. Senate candidate, have formed a legislative committee to investigate the affect of the Affordable Care Act on the state’s economy and residents.

The announcement by Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis sets the tone for the planned investigation laden with politics. The notice specifically mentioned investigating market disruptions, canceled insurance policies and higher premiums.

Tillis is waging a U.S. Senate campaign against Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and making Obamacare the centerpiece of his attacks against Hagan, who voted for the controversial law.

Golly, I can't wait to read what kind of surprising things they'll have in their final report! Hurry, fellas, the suspense is killing me! If I had to guess, I'd say it will be full of praise for the ACA and won't recommend scrapping the whole thing in favor of some vaguely-defined bunch of right-wing hokum. Am I right? Am I?

Momentum Machines has a device that:

...frees up all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.

It does everything employees can do except better:

• It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
• Our next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem.
• Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.
• It’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.

The labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better.

Yeah, I'm sure the people who buy this will do it so that they can spend more on "high quality ingredients" and "gourmet cooking techniques".

Suntory, a big Japanese liquor maker is buying Jim Beam.

That seems wrong - maybe even more wrong than when that amorphous foreign conglomerate bought Budweiser. But, cashing out is the American way, I guess.