Maybe this is why the climate is warming? There are massive wildfires in Southern California. They should really put those things out.

The Republican candidates for president fell all over themselves at last night’s debate, trying to out-conservative each other.

Speaking of long shot candidates, Stephen Colbert’s out to win the South Carolina primary (and their single delegate). “This is not a dream, you’re not going to wake up from this. I’m far real-er than Sam Brownback, let me put it that way,” Colbert told Tim Russert on Sunday’s Meet the Press.

Uh, apparently Dumbledore—the Hogwarts Headmaster in the Harry Potter series—was gay, says author J.K. Rowling.

Roughly 60 protesters were arrested in D.C. this morning, for protesting the war and private security firm Blackwater.