They've made some disgusting dishes in their time in the YouTube spotlight, but I suspect I'll be seeing the cheeseburger Happy Meal protein shake in my nightmares tonight.

You're going to end up seeing this video at some point. Someone will inevitably send it to you on Facebook and you will laugh. Might as well get it out of the way now.

So, a few weeks ago, I made a joke on The Range in a post about Utah passing a bill to establish an official firearm that Arizona hadn't gotten around to getting our own official gun. Well, it certainly didn't take long for our legislature to get to action on that front. Jobs, health care, and solvent schools can wait, apparently.

AN ACT

amending title 41, chapter 4.1, article 5, arizona revised statutes, by adding section 41-860.02; relating to state emblems.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 41, chapter 4.1, article 5, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-860.02, to read:

41-860.02. State firearm

The colt single action army revolver is the official state firearm.

The only question is whether we all get a free gun from this deal.

Sure you do. Who wouldn't (besides the guy who had to clean it up)?

If you thought there wasn't a marketing person in the world who would try to make a quick buck off the struggle for democracy in Egypt, you've wildly underestimated the depths of American greed!

Just a few minutes ago, whoever is running the Kenneth Cole feed responded to the collective outrage of the internet by tweeting "Re Egypt tweet: we weren't intending to make light of a serious situation. We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment -KC"

Good thing, I had just assumed that they were trying to make a quick buck off a trending topic in the most tasteless way possible. I feel better now.

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MSNBC:

A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison said after his capture that he had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him to end the fear and panic he was experiencing while on the lam.

Tracy Province told Mohave County sheriff's Detective Larry Matthews that he had wanted to go up on a mountain, shoot up a gram of heroin and "be bear food." As he was preparing the drug, a voice told him not to go through with the plan, and he changed course in favor of trying to hitchhike to Indiana to see family.

"He called it divine intervention," Matthews wrote in an August report.

Al Nash, a spokesman at Yellowstone National Park, said it's certainly possible that Province's plan would have worked, but it struck him as improbable.

"We have a fair number of bears in the ecosystem," Nash said. "They eat about anything. A bear would rather get an easy meal than a difficult meal, but human bear encounters are very infrequent."

I'm a big fan of Auto-tune revivalist/R&B innovator T-Pain, but if you have a question about whether a tattoo will remain timely over the long term, perhaps it would be wise to consider other options.

I'm no fan of Kings of Leon (I once titled a blog post "Why I Hate Kings Of Leon: Part XXVIII" and on other occasion wrote "Have you suffered a head injury and become a Kings Of Leon fan?", among other nasty things I've said about the band online), so I've already picked my side in this fight, but I could see where some people might hope for mutually assured destruction:

Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill has fired back at Glee creator Ryan Murphy, who criticizes the band in this week's Hollywood Reporter for turning down the Fox show's request to Glee-ify the song "Use Somebody" last year.

Murphy tells THR: "F—- you, Kings of Leon. They’re self-centered assholes, and they missed the big picture. They missed that a 7-year-old kid can see someone close to their age singing a Kings of Leon song, which will maybe make them want to join a glee club or pick up a musical instrument."

On Wednesday, hours after the THR story hit the web, Followill Tweeted: "Dear Ryan Murphy, let it go. See a therapist, get a manicure, buy a new bra. Zip your lip and focus on educating 7yr olds how to say f—-l."

Kings of Leon, bulwarks of artistic credibility, declined to allow their music to be performed on Glee, but have lent their work to more purely non-commercial outlets such as Volkswagen, Ford, Microsoft and the CW show Gossip Girl.

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I’ve been trying to ignore this whole melee … but the fur is certainly flying over on Boca’s Facebook page.

Owner Brian Mazon said he wanted to put the eatery on the map by selling lion tacos next month, but I’m not quite sure if the publicity stunt is going to hurt or help the restaurant.

One question has yet to be answered: Why is it permissible to eat a big cat, but ghastly to eat a house cat? And does lion taste like chicken? Because if it does that's gotta be one of the biggest ironies ever.

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Arkansas Alyse Eady, who was unjustly robbed of the Miss America title last night, but still has an outside chance at being appointed our new queen:

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