Tentative* good news, folks: A federal judge has knocked down Kentucky's gay marriage ban! And the cherry on top of the wedding cake? He accompanied his ruling with the most scathing and apt takedown of anti marriage equality arguments that the courts have ever witnessed. » 7/01/14 6:30pm 7/01/14 6:30pm

A Kentucky high school runner recently cut her season short when she opted not to run in regionals. She wasn't injured, or sick, or tending to a family emergency. No, she dropped out of the race because she was assigned the number 666 and thought that if she ran wearing that number, it would threaten her relationship… » 11/06/13 3:30pm 11/06/13 3:30pm

Pop quiz: Are you smarter than an eighth grader in 1912? » 7/29/13 11:30pm 7/29/13 11:30pm

It's so great when conservative politicians attempt the internet. Just imagine them sitting around a yellowed, ten-year-old computer and saying, "Hmm...how shall we 'internet' today?" » 7/02/13 4:40pm 7/02/13 4:40pm

Good news for those waiting for season two of Netflix's House of Cards: the political maneuvering going on behind the scenes in Kentucky allegedly rivals Francis Underwood's best laid plans. Former Judd adviser Jonathan Miller believes that Ashley Judd was dissuaded from challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch… » 4/01/13 10:50am 4/01/13 10:50am

Ashley Judd was under a microscope during a 90-minute appearance at a George Washington University student forum, ostensibly to speak about public health but, for all practical purposes, to continue establishing herself as a serious candidate to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell next year in Kentucky. » 3/02/13 5:15pm 3/02/13 5:15pm

Many liberals think Ashley Judd shouldn't challenge Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell for his seat in 2014 because there's no way she'll win. But it's pretty entertaining to watch Republicans try and come up with creative ways to run her out of the state before she's even in the running. » 2/26/13 12:05pm 2/26/13 12:05pm

Why do we care whether Ashley Judd decides to run against Kentucky Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014? Duh: she's a celebrity, and we care more about what celebs do even if they're "just like us," which they are not. » 2/25/13 3:35pm 2/25/13 3:35pm

Ashley Judd, staunch feminist and delightful human being, is still just barely "mulling" a 2014 senate run against Kentucky Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Cliff's Notes: It is currently February of 2013)—but that didn't stop conservative Super PAC American Crossroads from firing up a big dorky… » 2/07/13 9:30am 2/07/13 9:30am

On Thursday, campus police officers at the University of Kentucky let their well-honed law enforcement instincts lead them to the discovery of a 17-month-old girl named Alouette Day-Moreno-Baltierra, who, until her fateful rescue from the windblown quadrangles of Lexington, had been missing from her home in Los… » 12/30/12 3:00pm 12/30/12 3:00pm

The racial views of the members of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Kentucky evolved about 60 years in the past week, and all it took was a massive outpouring of shock and rage from people around the world. Yesterday, a week after nine people voted to pass a ban on interracial couples at the church, the… » 12/05/11 10:30am 12/05/11 10:30am

Apparently, Jesus has been horribly misquoted for roughly 2,000 years. While everyone thinks he was a fan of loving your neighbor as you love yourself, what he actually meant is that you should love your fellow man as long as his skin isn't a different color than yours. Thankfully, there's a small church in Kentucky… » 12/01/11 10:50am 12/01/11 10:50am

We now know how things would go down in a real-life Home Alone situation. Rather than being left in his parents' mansion as they jetted off to France, a forgotten child wound up in a parking lot while his dad drove home with the groceries. While leaving a Kentucky Kroger, a dad loaded his bag and his two kids into his… » 12/01/11 9:50am 12/01/11 9:50am

Jennifer Lawrence was on The Late Show last night, and Dave asked if The Hunger Games was a "vampire deal." Lawrence explained that it has nothing to do with vamps, and that it is a "very violent, futuristic movie where kids are randomly selected from their home districts to fight in an arena to the death. But we… » 5/20/11 11:45am 5/20/11 11:45am

Taylorsville, Kentucky contains 1,800 residents, a small population of very nervous mice, and an overpopulation of stray cats convening in every possible nook and cranny. According to the town's CAT CROSSING sign, the cats also wear shoes. » 2/05/11 5:22pm 2/05/11 5:22pm

Ashley Judd managed to piss off both coal miners and golf course developers in a speech last month — and they've responded with topless posters of the actress. » 7/09/10 4:55pm 7/09/10 4:55pm

• Two cable networks are fighting over the rights to a Sarah Palin reality show. » 3/18/10 5:40pm 3/18/10 5:40pm

In a more depressing sign of the impending economic collapse than the loss of 600 Starbucks, The Smoking Gun reports that a 34-year-old Kentucky woman, Angela Eversole, has been arrested on charges of prostitution after agreeing to providing sexual services to Kenneth Nowak (also arrested) for cash and $100 gas card.… » 7/02/08 10:45am 7/02/08 10:45am