Sharon Needles has won RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4, and all is right with the world. The weird boy in school, Aaron Coady of the unlikely Newton, Iowa, has been crowned — and we are all better for it. Hooray for the steel mills of Pittsburgh that forged this gorgeousness into an instant legend.

Giving a star-mix of wit and spooky fun, the face of drag is forever changed, as she joins the pantheon of ladyboy greats who sashay their way through the dragalaxy!

Congratulations to Sharon, for gallantly representing triumph over bullies, wit over anger, and gore with the glitz. She is, at once, a star in our bloody hearts!

Watch the full episode below.

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Case of Mad Cow Disease Is Found in U.S.

The Department of Agriculture announced that it had identified a case of mad cow disease, the first in six years, in a dairy cow in central California.

The cow “was never presented for human consumption, so it at no time presented a risk to the food supply or human health,” John Clifford, chief veterinary officer at the department, said in a statement.

via NYT

Must we get our truth from Al Jazeera? The Qatar news network reports that eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are among the deformities being seen in the Gulf of Mexico following the April 2010 BP oil spill, with one recent catch yielding a reported 400 pounds of shrimp without eyes. It’s all rather fishy.

Watch the clip and draw your own conclusions.

ty Ben W.

It turns out that Belgian bimbo Kimberley Vlaeminck did ask for 56 stars to be tattooed on her face 3 years ago, and she lied about “falling asleep” in the tattoo parlor, because she was afraid of her father’s reaction to her being such a fucking idiot.

She had originally said she was going to sue the tattooist for the cost of removing the offending Milky Way, and that a language barrier caused the tattoo snafu. All a lie.

Her brother-in-law was shot dead in 1963. When she was pregnant with her 11th child, her husband was brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her nephew murdered a neighbor girl with a golf club. Her sister-in-law died of brain cancer. Her fourth son died at 28 of a drug overdose in the ’80s. Her fifth son died after skiing into a tree in 1997. Another nephew, his wife and sister-in-law died when he flew his plane into the ocean.

She’s 84 today. Happy Birthday, Ethel!

Rachel Zoe spinoff Brad Goreski showed up to the Bravo upfronts wearing what appears to be a homemade suit, or a nurse’s outfit from the Maternity Ward at Cedars-Sinai. Nothing quite says style like too short and too wide pants, too short sleeves, with unfortunate cuffs and a pair of Rachel’s shoe discards.

What look is he going for? Good Humor douche? Diaper Deliveryman in WeHo? He looks like he outgrew this on the way to the event.

Just no.

Cheney spent 20 months on the heart donor waiting list, because it takes a long time to get an Igloo cooler successfully out of Hell.

Cursed science!

They scared the bejeezus outta me in “The Shining” as the Grady twins.

It’s Lisa and Louise Burns, who made their first and last film appearance in the unforgettable 1980 horror flick.

Today, Lisa has a degree in Literature and Language, and Louise is a microbiologist, and they’re today’s Friday Faces.

Most of Zsa Zsa Gabor seen here turned 95 today, if you believe her published birth date.

Kim Kardashian is only 31. Expect at least another 50 years of her.

Hopefully, one day she’ll find her Prince… von Anhalt.

for Katzy

One of the two giant breast reactors at San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California was shut down yesterday after a “small leak” was detected in a “steam generator tube.”

A facility operator said there was no risk to the public or plant workers.

Fukushima.