Look Ma, No Oil (Or Clothes)

Up to 2,000 riders are expected to place unadorned buttock to bike saddle for the U.K.'s sixth annual World Naked Bike Ride this weekend, part of a global network of naked ride events planned in 140 locations to demonstrate against cars and oil dependency. According to organizers, no, it doesn't chafe.

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So Much Hate, So Few Places To Go With It

In response to Fox News' Shephard Smith suggesting the Holocaust museum shooting and his own recent mail are evidence of a growing right-wing extremism, he has been pummelled by increasingly hysterical conservatives. As Paul Krugman notes here , the shrillness of these "all-American lunatics" and their only moderately more reasonable cohorts alarms. "They were warning us for a reason," said Smith about an earlier report on the rise of rightwing extremists. "It was a warning to us all. And it appears now they were right."

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