Dad of the Week Award goes to Randy Duke, who spent much of his time home from Afghanistan marching in front of his son Max' middle school in Texas to protest Max being suspended for standing up to a bully harassing a special needs student. Max is back in school after officials cut short his suspension.

"I left one war and came back to another. This is not about this one bully - this is about the school district not standing up."

A long-awaited report that could open the floodgates for fracking in LA County - the largest western urban oil field in the country with over 15 billion barrels of oil - turns out to have been carried out by a "consulting firm" with strong ties to TransCanada/Keystone, funded by the operator of the L.A. oil field, and reviewed by "independent firms" with strong ties to the oil and gas industry. The study found - surprise! - "no harm" from fracking.

Vice-presidential do-gooder Paul Ryan stopped by an Ohio soup kitchen - after all the scruffy poor people had gone and the real volunteers had cleaned up - to be filmed washing an already-washed pot and "emphasize the importance of charities (to) civil society.” Then he stopped to talk to a few men who "appeared to be homeless." Reporters were barred from listening, but we bet he was telling them about moochers and how he wants to cut funds to Medicaid and homeless vets. What a prince.

Whoah Update: The head of the charity is blasting Ryan's photo-op - "He did nothing" - and the R/R campaign for "ramrodding" their way into the soup kitchen. Ha.