Over at the New Yorker this morning, Jeffrey Toobin has written up a list of potential Supreme Court nominees. No, you didn't miss anything; no one's died or resigned; and according to some that's just the problem. Toobin puts it relatively delicately:

Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), a member of the House Committee on the Budget, was invited to discuss the government shutdown on this morning's CNN Newsroom, but the congressman seemed far more interested in hitting on the host instead.

A Taliban rep has sent an open letter to Malala, the Pakistani teen activist who was targeted last year by Taliban gunmen in a failed assassination attempt, asking her to stop her "smearing campaign" against the militants who tried to kill her.

This gem is thanks to ShortFormBlog's coverage of the abortion protests being waged at the Texas Capitol today.

Tampon manufacturer Kimberly-Clark has a new series of ads out in which veterans of periods (gals) explain all the wacky vagina myths they once believed. (These myths, they say, are untrue, though we cannot confirm this independently.) You may be shocked to learn that some of your most cherished opinions about your body are, in fact, as mythical as "Amelia Earhart" or "Sojourner Truth."

Here now, a new study chronicled in the scientific journal The Daily Mail, which lays bare womankind's deepest, darkest, shiniest, most volumizing secret: some women are far more concerned about their hair than about their physique. Ladies. Ladies. You have it backwards.