It's been a bad week for sick child abuse "games" in California. First came news of the teacher who played the terrible "lollypop game" with a student, and now Mark Berndt, a teacher at Miramonte Elementary School in Florence-Firestone, California, has been arrested for playing the "tasting game," in which he got…

Robert Downey Jr. says Sherlock Holmes might be a "very butch homosexual." Depressingly and unsurprisingly, both Hollywood and Arthur Conan Doyle's estate are now freaking out. Guess this means I'm not getting permission for my Holmes/Watson slashfic. [Mother Jones]

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