Massachusetts congressional candidate Sean Bielat had an unusual backstage exchange last week with James Ready, longtime partner of Bielat's opponent, Rep. Barney Frank. Ready snapped photos and told Bielat to "get used to" the attention. Bielat was confused! Video below.

The New York Times ran a profile today on two 27-year-olds who are working as the live-in caretakers for the Ralph Waldo Emerson House in Concord, MA. So, cool, neat job. Though one series of paragraphs chills to the bone.

4chan, the anarchic Internet messageboard, appears to be experiencing an identity crisis. Whereas terror campaigns against tweens were once planned amid stomach-churning images, a strong streak of do-gooderism has taken hold. In fact, 4chan is being downright nice these days.

Public libraries in the internet age have become less about books and more about free porn and librarian sex. But one Massachusetts lawmaker is on a mission to stop it, by publicly shaming people caught watching porn on library computers.

Massachusetts tween sex god Sen. Scott Brown has started an essay contest about Independence Day! Brown will pick up the winner in his truck, head to a baseball game, and then, well... use your imagination, eh? Also: Brown wants $50.

Concord, Mass., home of juice company Welch's, has banned the sale of bottled water starting in 2011. An effort to save the so-called "environment," or a bow to pressure from the powerful grape-juice lobby? We report—you decide. [Fox]

Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican and former Cosmo centerfold, is working on a memoir scheduled to hit shelves in 2011. He may be stuck in Teddy Kennedy's old seat, but he'll become the male Sarah Palin, yet. [AP]

Jay Leno is known for being middle-of-the-road. But compared to Scott Brown, Leno is a gay hippie communist smoking hash out in weirdo Los Angeles. Brown was on Leno tonight, and he set a new standard for normality.

Jim Behrle's Kartoon kats are unhappy with Massachusetts. And they are rioting for CoCo!

We have now seen every member of Senator-elect Scott Brown's family in some state of undress. Here's wife Gail Huff in a bikini, coaxing a tube of sunscreen to metaphoric orgasm, in a music video from 1982.

In which a born-and-raised, dyed-in-the-wool Boston liberal (transplanted to New York) tries to make sense of the big old hulking electoral mess that is his home state right now.

With Scott Brown's stunning, come-from-behind victory over the boring lady who hated baseball in Massachusetts, the Democrats must admit defeat. Please welcome our new unstoppable Republican Superminority.

Republican Scott Brown just won Massachusetts' Senate Deathrace™. Brown ran a killer campaign and has promised to kill Democrats' health care bill. And it's lucky his daughters didn't die of embarrassment, given what he said in his victory speech tonight.

If you want to pay attention to the Massachusetts special election results on the internet tonight, here is the Massachusetts Secretary of State's website, and Marc Ambinder's "cheat sheet" of what to look for. More assorted links below.

Things cannot stop going wrong for Martha Coakley! Now the Boston Globe accidentally declared her the victor in today's special election hours before the polls closed.

[The president visits school kids in Virginia today to see if any of them want to run for senator of Massachusetts in 2012; image via Getty]

There will be no exit polls in today's Massachusetts special election.

Scott Brown, Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts, has conservatives in absolute rapture. The phrase "white Obama" has been introduced. Hell, if he wins today, Brown just might be the GOP candidate for President in 2012.

Larry King sold his suspenders. Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta saved young Haitians. And Jessica Yellin made a terrible earthquake-related pun. Welcome to the strangest night yet of CNN's unrelenting prime-time Haiti coverage.

Hah, sorry America, Massachusetts doesn't want you to have any healthcare.