GOP Wants Akin Out of the Race After He Told Pregnant Rape Victims They Weren't Raped: But God wants him in the Senate, he says. Smackdown: GOP versus God.

Anonymous Hacks the Site of the Court That Sentenced Pussy Riot: "We don't forget and we don't forgive." Meanwhile, copycats are arrested at a mass in Cologne.

Will Wall Street Hit May 2008 Today?: Going for a four-year high. Update: High hit.

For the First Time, Obama Warns Syria the U.S. Could Fight: If he sees evidence of unconventional weaponry being moved around on the ground. Meanwhile, looters, plunderers, and attackers dismantle the ancient cities of Apamea, Dara'a, Homs, and Aleppo, setting them in the sorry company of Timbuktu and Bamiyan.

Attack on U.S. Airfield in Kabul: Shrapnel hit the plane that would have carried the American general who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; unclear whether the attackers knew he was there.

Racial Disparity Rising in Seattle Schools: This is by design, not by accident, as the city switches to a neighborhoods plan—you go to your neighborhood school—that reverses integration attempts that began in 1978. It's what happens under the influence of the "logic" of John Roberts ("The way to stop discrimination of the basis of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race").

Diana Nyad Has to Call It Off: One magical night of dolphins is no match for storms, jellyfish, and exhaustion. Next year? I'll salute her in the waters off Denny Blaine this morning.

Avalanche Lilies Struggling on Mount Rainier: Is the culprit the 1.5-degree Fahrenheit rise since 1920 in the average annual Pacific Northwest temperature? Sarah Bergmann, can you Pollinator Pathway all the way to the mountain?

Sleep and Socioeconomics: Looking at studies that link race and sleep.

How Women Have Heart Attacks: Like Rosie O'Donnell, it can happen without upper chest pressure at all.

Meles Zenawi, 57, Has Died: He was Ethiopia's leader for two decades. The deputy prime minister is stepping up. But Zenawi was a powerhouse; will the country destabilize in his absence? Or will a new leader be better for Oromo and other minorities as well as dissidents?

Bullshit Artist: You really must meet the on-fire new artist who "has never made a film or a painting, nor has he written a poem, taken a picture, or tried to 'make' anything. Despite all this, he has fascinated the art world and captivated New York society for the past year. He’s been praised as 'unfathomable at best' and 'bafflingly circumlocutory at worst' by ArtFinger. He scores twelve out of ten on BaffleMag’s 'Scoring the Downtown Scene,' and has been named a 'Notable Nelly' in ArtScrape Magazeen’s midyear wrap-up three times in the same list." Hilarious.

Look, even an Arizona car dealership wanted to tap into Phyllis Diller's soul, which was so big and so bad that it is almost entirely capable of defeating the horrors of the Hamster Dance.