In a message delivered today to Utah Republicans, Jim DeMint endorses Mike Lee. Mike Lee now fears all his friends will shun him.

Bennett out; GOP delegates reject 18-year Senate veteran [Salt Lake Tribune]

This is a jellyfish. It lives in the sea. It’s not like all the other jellyfish. Its gonads are inside-out. The nice lady zoologist who discovered it says the gonads look like “skyscrapers in a downtown business district.” She named the jellyfish Csiromedusa medeopolis. It means “city of gonads.”

We want to be a zoologist when we grow up, so we can give jellyfish dirty names too.

“City of Gonads” Jellyfish Discovered [National Geographic]

On May 9, 1960 — which this year falls on, um, Sunday — the FDA announced it would approve Enovid for use as a contraceptive pill. But the actual approval didn’t happen until June 23. Guess which date everyone’s running with for the Pill’s golden anniversary? [AP]

“Rolando Negrin, a TSA employee at Miami International Airport, was arrested for aggravated battery after he attacked a colleague, in response to coworkers poking fun at the size of his penis during a body-scanning machine training session.” [TPM]

“Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence.” [NYT]

Have you met Spencer Elden? Nice kid. Works for Shepard Fairey, who did the Obama poster. Cute little dick. You might have seen it on an album cover.

Shepard Fairey Employs Nirvana’s Nevermind Baby [Mediabistro, via Kottke]

• iPads arrived.
• Brief rupture of the space-time continuum.
• Stock-chart mixup with Rocky & Bullwinkle graphic.

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