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A Dallas police sergeant named Mark Johnson has been transferred and reassigned to an overnight shift while being investigated over an incident involving a Chick-fil-A sandwich. Johnson, you see, is said to have entered into the station’s briefing room with a Chick-fil-A sandwich on “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” — a day organized by Mike Huckabee in support of comments made by Chick-fil-A’s CEO regarding same-sex marriage. Two lesbian officers at the station filed a complaint claiming that Johnson placed the sandwich directly in front of them during the briefing — which allegedly included information about the Chick-fil-A demonstrations going on that day — and acted in a manner that left them “embarrassed and humiliated” because he had been trying to “send them a message.” Now. I wasn’t in that briefing room, difficult as that may be to believe, and I don’t know what exists within Mark Johnson’s heart. Maybe the guy just happened to stop by a Chick-fil-A on that particular day beca...

Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff development at The Daily. In March of 2012 the Friends of The Stanford Daily awarded him... ? Learn More Location-based note-sharing app Pinwheel has changed its name to Findery, after the U.S. District Court of New York granted Pinweel, a photo-sharing app, a preliminary injunction over the similar names. In February, Caterina Fake (yep, last name Fake involved in a naming-rights lawsuit…I can’t make this stuff up) launched Pinwheel. The older Pinweel demanded that Pinwheel change its name, and eventually they wound up in court. Yesterday, our own Anthony Ha–or “Anthony Ha of the TechCrunch blog,” as Nick Bilton (of the Bits blog of The New York Times newspaper) calls him–reported that Fake had redirected pinwheel.com to 2bkco.com, presuming it...