Bonus detail: It’s the local Fox affiliate.

Prosser Grabs Reporter’s Microphone, Quickly Hands It Back [TPM]

Well, the embedded video was working, and then it wasn’t, and we’re too busy victimizing patriot light-bulb companies to find a replacement, so just click through to Popular Science, or, better yet, throw an M80 down their toilet for putting us through this.

Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Phantom HD Camera = The Best Fourth of July Video [Popular Science, via Nerdist]

Why, yes, that’s a link to our post! And if we understand the Rules of Internet Engagement correctly, if we keep the feud going, everybody wins!

[Twitter]

Apparently some Japanese do not know what they are signing up for:

With a Confederate flag no less!

Our guest columnist is unclear on the concept.

We’re scrappy entrepreneurs who don’t like having the federal government tell us we can’t buy or sell safe, inexpensive incandescent light bulbs. Our light bulbs are made in South Carolina, the same state that gave us the Gadsden Flag.

The Gadsden Light Bulb Company

“The Cuomo administration is expected to lift what has been, in effect, a [New York] moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technology used to extract natural gas from shale, people briefed on the administration’s discussions said on Thursday.” A Cuomo spokesbot calls it “baseless speculation and premature”. [NYT]

No, not Michele but her husband Marcus.

The big old queen next to Boehner in this heart-warming scene.

Matt Taibbi (I know, I know) burns down the barn in his account of Michele’s burning desire to become the dumbest woman in America. That she’s been amply blessed by nature may be true. But there’s no doubt that Marcus, described as her “strategist”, raises the game to a whole new level of arrogant ignorance.