News you can use all day

• Hostage taking! – Does this count as vote 51 to repeal the Affordable Care Act? Anyway, “House Republicans expect to vote this Friday on legislation that would risk steep, destabilizing Medicare cuts at the end of the month unless Democrats agree to a five-year delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate.” It’s like the Coyote and Roadrunner show, again and again and again. (TPM)
• Oopsie! – A Fox station in Oklahoma swears that it was an accident that they cut out the part of Cosmos that talked about Evolution. You know, to insert a commercial break to tease a story in the local news broadcast, and that then was not in the local news broadcast. Awkward! (Raw Story)
• Hubba-hubba! – And now it can be told: According To Pornhub, The South Watches More Gay Porn Than Any Other Part Of The U.S. You know, just for research purposes, I’m sure. (BuzzFeed)