Kerry Lauerman

We Are Raising $200,000 to Buy and Publish the Rob Ford Crack Tape

gawker.com — As you may have heard, Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, smokes crack cocaine. We've seen a video of him smoking crack cocaine, and the people who have the video would like to sell it. Through the miracle of crowdfunding, you can help. Please consider donating to the Rob Ford Crackstarter.

Two-legged Cat: Super Ted Saved And Homed

lovemeow.com — Super Ted the 2-legged stray cat was rescued from the road side by the RSPCA. His front-right and back-left legs along with half his tail were gone. They suspected it was caused by a car engine accident. The vet at West Toowoomba Vet Surgery saved his life from the verge of death.

Kinsley loves austerity because it is “spinach”

salon.com — So the other day Paul Krugman had a long, very good piece in the New York Review of Books on the arguments and flawed research used to justify austerity measures, and why the notion that it's necessary for countries to "pay" for booms and expansionary fiscal policy with spending-slashing measures in the midst of recessions has so much appeal to certain elites.

Krist Novoselic: My plan to fix Congress, curb obstruction

salon.com — That Congress is totally dysfunctional is evident to most Americans, with just 16 percent telling pollsters they approve of the job the body is doing. The good news is there's a constitutional solution that would dramatically improve its efficacy, boost participation, and curb partisan obstruction: switching to a form of proportional representation by electing multiple members in each district based on how it votes.

Justin Bieber has less than 12 hours to save his monkey

salon.com — Justin Bieber, a human monkey, has only 12 hours left to save his pet monkey Mally, who has had the misfortunate of becoming a metaphor for the teenage singer's sanity. The 20-week-old capuchin was quarantined in Germany after the singer failed to produce paperwork necessary for Mally's international air travel.

Krist Novoselic: My plan to fix Congress, curb obstruction

salon.com — That Congress is totally dysfunctional is evident to most Americans, with just 16 percent telling pollsters they approve of the job the body is doing. The good news is there's a constitutional solution that would dramatically improve its efficacy, boost participation, and curb partisan obstruction: switching to a form of proportional representation by electing multiple members in each district based on how it votes.

Krist Novoselic: My plan to fix Congress, curb obstruction

salon.com — That Congress is totally dysfunctional is evident to most Americans, with just 16 percent telling pollsters they approve of the job the body is doing. The good news is there's a constitutional solution that would dramatically improve its efficacy, boost participation, and curb partisan obstruction: switching to a form of proportional representation by electing multiple members in each district based on how it votes.

Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia

salon.com — In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named "Qworty" made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded Southern novelist with a taste for the Gothic and absurd. Qworty cut paragraphs that included quotes from Hannah's work.