“The former Playgirl cover model, 20, is running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — and documenting it in his reality show, Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office.” [Us]

We don’t have time this afternoon to, y’know, read the Explosive! GQ post on college dropout Rand Paul, but if Politico’s good for anything, it’s mainlining the buzzy part:

The strangest episode of Paul’s time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 (although memories about all of these events are understandably a bit hazy, so the date might be slightly off), when he and a NoZe brother paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul’s teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, “He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They’d been smoking pot.”

Well, let’s knock down that rumor right now:

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“Craig Brown, a psychiatrist who lives in Del Mar, donned a white lab coat and wore a stethoscope around his neck as U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada spoke against the health-care bill… Brown said he borrowed the white coat from a nearby lab because a website suggested people wear lab coats to the event.” [San Diego Union-Tribune, via ThinkProgress]

You may have heard last week about a fascinating security hole in the iPhone: If you craft a PDF file just so, in particular by fucking with the embedded fonts, you can break into the gadget.

Apple has certainly heard of it, and they’re working on a fix. Because that’s what software companies are supposed to do when a serious bug comes to their attention.

Unlike the United States Senate, which enshrines it as tradition.

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Title: “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”

Author: Mary Roach

Rank: 24

Blurb: “What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk?”

Review: “I loved Roach’s Stiff, but Spook — not as much, so skipped Bonk.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)”.

Footnote: To date, nobody has been documented joining the 186-Mile-High Club.

Packing for Mars [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Stinque owes an apology to James O’Keefe. Where we dismissed him as a fucking retard with a video camera, we should have credited him as a fucking retard with a video camera who managed to snooker Drudge Jr., Fox News, and the United States Congress.

Our revised judgment comes in light of “Spencer,” a fellow fucking retard with a video camera who had the bright idea of hanging out at the Media Matters office and asking the drones how they felt about working for George Soros.

Neglecting to check beforehand whether George Soros funds Media Matters.

Which — please, if you have a heart condition, look away — he doesn’t.

Well, not directly.

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“Fox News chief Roger Ailes has a license to carry a firearm in New York City on his person at all times, according to the NYPD’s newly released list of handgun-permit holders. And he’s not alone among his Fox News colleagues: Prime-time shouter Sean Hannity also has a city license to carry a gun.” [Yahoo News]