Freshman senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is really into regulatory reform. How into regulatory reform is he? He's so into regulatory reform that it's totally cool with him if businesses that serve food get to decide whether their employees are required to wash their hands. (Not a joke.)

No, this isn't a Bloomberg joke.

One of my coworkers who, to be honest, I find to be rather annoying, recently began growing what can only be referred to as a Hitler mustache. I am afraid he doesn't realize it as such, and that no one else at work will be willing to tell him. I don't know for sure how many friends he has outside of work.

A Seattle company is selling "bacon deodorant," because who doesn't want to smell like fried pig all day?

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The New York City Health Department recently inspected 30 Rock's Starbucks and discovered it to be teeming with "live mice." Consequently, the Starbucks serving the stars of NBC received a 'C.' Which other Manhattan Starbucks stores are among the impressively filthy elite?

This press release can't be real, can it? Now circulating on PRNewser, the Hairpin, and Mom-101: A PR email urging daughters to give their mothers moist vaginas for Mother's Day.

Hey, ladies: Have you been longing for a diaper to sop up excess period blood? Not an ugly diaper, but a sleek sexy one? You're in luck: Here is a new product called Sexy Period™ panties. I am of two minds about it.

Click to viewA college student wore a pair of jeans for 15 months and then compared them to a pair he wore for 13 days. They had the same amount of bacteria! So you can postpone laundry one more day. [via]

Is your vagina feeling sluggish? Maybe it needs a day at the gyno spa. A new trend in vaginal hygiene has arrived in America. It involves the words "pungent steam," "mugwort tea," and "open-seated stool." Meet the vaginal steam bath.

Apparently recruiters have complained to the board of a Columbia investment banking club that students they are meeting with about potential jobs haven't been keeping up their end of the ol' societal hygiene bargain. So, an embarrassing memo went out.

A recent "observational study" found that 85 percent of adults washed their hands after doing their business. Not too bad! But not as good as the 96 percent of adults who told phone interviewers that they "always" wash their hands.

93% of women wash their hands after using public restrooms versus just 77% of men.

The actor and bald person is releasing his scent all over America's face. His musk has been infused into cologne, body wash, and deodorant, and this Thursday you can buy it all. Hopefully it's Moonlighting-era smell, not Color of Night.

Turns out Lady Macbeth was right. A study suggests washing hands not only helps cleanse your conscience, but helps you convince yourself you made the right choice, because it "reduces the influence of past behaviors" in your head. [SciAm, pic]

It's a Christmas miracle: a tipster has forwarded us a historic May, 2007 internal staff email from our favorite public relations powerhouse, 5WPR. It seems someone (ladies) could not keep the poop flushed and the tampons put away properly.

Now that Britney's sister Jamie Lynn Spears has just "had the damn Caesarian already," you might think the 17-year-old would be free to raise her new baby in relative peace. Sadly, the newest issue of InTouch arrives bearing the gift of postpartum depression; the magazine has alleged that babydaddy Casey Aldridge has been cheating on Jamie Lynn with an older woman, 28-year-old Kelli Dawson. They even have proof: incriminating pictures of the two touching tongues as though they were eight-year-olds who wanted to try out the exotic concept known as "french kissing." Says the mag:

Rather than taking a shower, gooey teen heartthrob actor Zac Efron likes to clean himself with baby wipes. Just like Terrence Howard's butt!