Want some Holy Grail with your holy matrimony? In this age of fast-paced wedding trends including beta-marriages, wedding hashtags, and er, mason jars, our friends in the green-friendly states have put their finger on a wedding practice that’s more about chilling the fuck out. Weed weddings are predictably starting to gain ground in Colorado and Washington since legalization, because if …

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today 2-1 that Virginia’s gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. Judge Paul Niemeyer, a Republican appointee, dissented. Gay couples won’t immediately be able to get married in Virginia — Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed explains that the judgment won’t take effect until a mandate is issued, which will occur a week after the time to …

They sent a creepy feeling through several Southern California families, but authorities say the person who left porcelain dolls on doorsteps didn’t mean any harm. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday that someone had left the dolls wearing nightgowns and lace dresses at as many as eight homes in a San Clemente neighborhood this week. The families were worried …

Last we checked, ice cream is supposed to melt if it isn’t kept chilled. But Walmart’s store-brand ice cream sandwiches don’t even melt in the sun, according to a report from WCPO Cincinnati. The discovery was made by a local mom, Christie Watson, who noticed that a Great Value ice cream sandwich her son left out on their patio table …

Michele Bachmann—former presidential candidate, soon-to-be-ex-congresswoman, corn-dog enthusiast—wants to make sure you know what’s at stake in the gay-rights debate: tyranny, deviancy, and most of all, lots of child rape. That was all in the space of about two minutes of her appearance on Ohio Christian University’s Faith & Liberty radio show late last week. Right Wing Watch explains: The Minnesota …

When people go to the beach, they commonly have a good time combing through the sand for things like shells and sand dollars. But for people on the shores of Cornwall, England, time is spent on the beach searching for something entirely different: Legos. On February 13, 1997 the Tokio Express shipping vessel was rocked by an enormous wave. The …

You should always love the skin you’re in. And now, you can love the skin you’re sitting in. UK artist Gigi Barker has created a line of furniture made to look, feel and smell like human skin. There is, as New York Magazine reports, “a chair meant to mimic a squishy roll of fat and footstools that resemble deformed testes.” …