Wonkette

* Karl should’ve been doing Scotty’s job this whole time. Way to stonewall’em Karl! [Think Progress]* Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani outs himself ends a fatwa against gay men, though not against lesbians. [Republic of T]

* Pentagon “whiz-bang” agency DARPA is hard at work developing technology to make you look even stupider than you do with that Bluetooth earpiece. [NIST]

* A couple of analytical tables later, Richard Cohen finds himself curled up in the President’s lap, licking his wounds. [Harper's]

* Fiction can still be stranger than truth. [Revolution SF]