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April 09, 2013 | | Desperately Seeking Stark A 25-year-old woman in New Orleans posted a hilarious Game of Thrones sex ad on the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist. "Seeking Robb Stark look-alike from GoT," she writes, pledging to dress as "Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen, Mother of Dragons" and make "wild and passionate love" on her own replica of the show's Iron Throne. The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern on the ad that has to be seen to be believed. HUZZAH Hooray! The Daily Beast is proud to report that we've been nominated for three Webby Awards, which celebrate the best of the web. In the Best News category, we'll be defending our title against NPR.org, the Huffington Post, BBC News, and NYTimes.com. Our social-media team has been nominated in the News & Information category against CNN, NBC Primetime News, and two entries from The New York Times. And Beast TV may scoop up an award for its hilarious video from September, "Road Trip: What Does Boston Think of Mitt Romney?" As if that's not enough, we're also honorees in three more categories, for Fashion Beast, The Hero Project, and Ask Andrew Anything. Thanks for reading, congrats to the other nominees—and vote for the website here, the video here, and social media here! Retail Therapy Ron Johnson engineered the runaway success of Apple's retail empire, but crashed and burned at the more lowbrow JCPenney. The Daily Beast's Daniel Gross reports on why Johnson got the boot. GUN CONTROL A gun-control speech on the Senate floor got personal for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who cited his father's suicide. "Sometimes people in a fit of passion will purchase the handgun to do bad things with it, Mr. President, even as my dad did, kill themselves," said Reid. He pointed out that in Nevada a person has to wait three days before picking up a gun after purchasing it. "Waiting a few days helps," he said. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced plans to join his colleagues' filibuster of the gun-control package. Intrigue Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign is firing back after Mother Jones published a tape of a strategy meeting, asking the FBI to investigate how the magazine obtained the recording. "Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell's campaign office without consent," said campaign manager Jesse Benton. "By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation." The tape revealed McConnell and his aides discussing attacking Ashley Judd, who was weighing a run for McConnell's seat, as a carpetbagging Hollywood liberal with "suicidal tendencies" and a history of depression. One aide called her life a "haystack of needles." Earlier, the campaign claimed the recording was the result of "Nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters."
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