In the new CBS show The Great Indoors, an “outdoorsy guy’s guy” played by Joel McHale gets demoted from his manly job as “adventure reporter” (a position I have not seen on the masthead of any magazine, maybe ever?) after an injury, taking a job as social media editor—one of the few positions in media in which women outnumber men. What could be funnier?

The premise of the show seems to be that the work men do at publications is more serious and valuable than the work women do. And that is a pretty harmful starting point, since social media editors already find their work vastly misunderstood. They are both pressured to attract readers and blamed spectacularly when a Facebook post or tweet misfires. 

As Alana Hope Levinson pointed out last year in her brilliant essay “The Pink Ghetto of Social Media,” there is a perception that social media is 

easier, ‘fluffy,’ and not on par with other editorial roles. Even though it’s no secret that social media is critical to the current business models, one woman who works as a social media editor in news thinks “the position is always gonna be viewed as some dumb 20-year-old woman job.”

The idea of a TV show about social media is a uniquely dispiriting one—will we get to see close-ups of McHale’s charmingly inept tweets? 

Someone who wanted to make a show about social media editors would find more interesting material if they actually thought for a moment about the contradictions of the pink ghetto. 

The senator from Texas really likes cigars, a fact he makes known in a number of ways. He puffs in front of photographers. He holds fundraisers titled, “Smoke A Cigar With Senator Ted Cruz.” And sometimes he just comes out and says it: “I do enjoy an occasional cigar. (I am Cuban after all),” he wrote in a questionnaire for The Dallas Morning News.

How devastating it must be for Cruz, then, that in a poll by Cigar Aficionado—where William F. Buckley Jr. has a byline, and which gave Rush Limbaugh the cover treatment—he won the support of only 22 percent of the magazine’s Republican readers, behind Trump’s 39 percent and Marco Rubio’s 23 percent.

Neither of Cruz’s top rivals has made much of an effort to court the cigar vote. “I used to smoke a little cigar here and there,” Rubio said earlier this month. “Now it’s just hard to do.” As for the Donald, he says he has never smoked. And now he’s won the support of a conservative magazine for men who love to do just that.

First the evangelicals, now the stogie smokers. What’s next? Men who bald gracefully?

They quickly lined up behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s declaration on Saturday to block any of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, claimed that “it’s been standard practice over the last 80 years to not confirm Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election year.”

But this hasty reaction to declare Obama’s choice dead on arrival carries high risks in an election year. Voters may fault the GOP for keeping the SCOTUS seat empty. Now, some Republicans appear to be considering a more measured approach: Allow Obama to make a nomination, then reject the nominee (whoever he or she is).

Grassley, who is up for reelection this year, offered a more even-handed response on Tuesday. “I would wait until the nominee is made before I would make any decisions,” he said, according to Radio Iowa. “In other words, take it a step at a time.” He did still insist that the position should be filled by the next president. 

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis laid out the motivation behind Grassley’s new line in clearer terms in a radio interview caught by ThinkProgress. “I think we fall into the trap if just simply say sight unseen, we fall into the trap of being obstructionists,” Tillis said. “If he puts forth someone that we think is in the mold of President Obama’s vision for America, then we’ll use every device available to block that nomination.” 

After this damning piece of evidence was revealed, the conspiracy theorists got to work. Fusion has a pretty great round-up of these theories, which range from the standard conspiracies involving Obama and Clinton, to a reprise of the “Bush did 9/11” conspiracy, now featuring Scalia, who knew about it all along and had to be silenced. Of course, it may have just been aliens. 

When asked about possible foul play, Donald Trump noted that on top of the face is a “pretty unusual place to find a pillow.” His statements have provoked a backlash from the pillow-atop-the-face community on Twitter, who claim to utilize this method of sleeping. (It would have been much more unusual if the pillow was found, say, lodged in Scalia’s throat or tied around his neck.)

And, as some are pointing out, it seems unlikely that Obama, Clinton, or Bush did it, because they would probably have had enough foresight to hire an assassin who wouldn’t leave the murder weapon on top of the target’s face.

But maybe that’s what they want you to think.

Showtime, Netflix, and FX are bidding on rights to a multi-season television series based on Jonathan Franzen’s 2015 novel Purity. Craig, who has played James Bond in four movies since 2005, has not said which character he will play, but it is thought he will be cast as another international man of mystery, the Julian Assange-like Andreas Wolf. With its overwrought plot and zeitgeisty character-types—interns! leakers!—the novel is a good fit for a long-running series. And in his review of the book last summer, Christian Lorentzen compared Purity to prestige TV: “just smart enough to remind you it’s not trash.” We suggest casting Aubrey Plaza as Purity and Tilda Swinton as her mother. 

After 48-year-old César Flores sent off the player for hitting an opponent on Sunday, the player went off the pitch, grabbed a gun from his bag, came back on the field, and shot the referee three times—in the head, chest, and neck. Another player, 25-year-old Walter Zárate, was also shot in the chest, but is recovering in hospital.

Argentine football has long been plagued by violence driven by the gangs who control the game. In 2013, the Argentine NGO Save Football reported that over 70 people had been killed in soccer-related violence since 2000. Violence against referees is also not uncommon: Last June a match was called off after a player punched a referee into unconsciousness after being yellow-carded.

The former secretary-general of the United Nations, whose death at 93 was confirmed today, is perhaps best known for overseeing the U.N.’s response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which is remembered for being woefully inadequate. As told in Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, Boutros-Ghali and his subordinates failed to heed the so-called “genocide fax” warning of an imminent campaign to exterminate Tutsis sent by Major General Romeo Dallaire, the head of U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda:

Dallaire labeled his fax “most immediate,” and signed off in French: “Peux ce que veux. Allons’y” (“Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Let’s go”). The response from New York was: Let’s not.

Boutros-Ghali’s tenure at the U.N. was also marred by the Bosnian War, another calamity that appeared to underscore the impotence of U.N. peacekeepers in the face of mass slaughter. Boutros-Ghali would go on to bitterly blame the Clinton administration for undercutting the U.N.’s efforts.

But for a number of reasons—his patrician charm, his fluency in French and English, and, most of all, his distinctive name—Boutros-Ghali managed to infiltrate pop culture in a way that Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon never did. His name, along with Yo-Yo Ma’s, became a euphemism on Seinfeld, while he was one of the few guests to distinguish himself on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Da Ali G Show. RIP, Boutros Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

In an op-ed published in the Guardian this morning, the French economist and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century argues that a leader like Sanders—if not Sanders himself—“could one day soon win the U.S. presidential elections and change the face of the country.” He writes:

Sanders’s success today shows that much of America is tired of rising inequality and these so-called political changes, and intends to revive both a progressive agenda and the American tradition of egalitarianism. Hillary Clinton, who fought to the left of Barack Obama in 2008 on topics such as health insurance, appears today as if she is defending the status quo, just another heiress of the Reagan-Clinton-Obama political regime.

Six months ago, Rousey was the single most dominant athlete in his or her sport. The female MMA fighter hadn’t lost a single match, often demolishing any opponent who dared step into the cage with her in a matter of seconds. So when fighter Holly Holm in November landed a kick to the side of Rousey’s head and shattered the myth of her invincibility, she lost more than just a fight. 

“In the medical room, I was down in the corner, and I was like, ‘What am I anymore if I’m not this?’ I was literally sitting there and thinking about killing myself in that exact second,” said an emotional Rousey during an interview with Ellen Degeneres. “I’m nothing. What do I do anymore? No one gives a shit about me anymore without this.”

She may have been down, but she’s not out. Rousey is planning to return to the sport later this year with an eye on a rematch.