This Death Row Inmate Is Dying to Donate His Organs
In 2001 Christian Longo killed his wife and his three young children and fled to Mexico. Once he was brought back to the US, he was convicted of those murders and placed on Oregon’s Death Row, where...
View ArticleNew York City Politics Is Still a Bunch of Warring Ethnic Tribes
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and a smattering of activists/elected officials at a "unity rally'" last fall. Photo via Flickr user Jere Keys Though he was seemingly invincible after...
View ArticleCAN-FAP Is Fighting for Foreskins Everywhere
CAN-FAP leader Glen Callender. All photos courtesy of James Loewen via Facebook The majority of the Western world has already come to the conclusion that female genital mutilation is bad—it’s brutal,...
View ArticlePeru's DVD Pirates Have Exquisite Taste
In Pasaje 18 of Lima's Polvos Azules shopping mall, you'll find racks of DVD burners humming away while fluorescent lights cast their glare across the glitter of thousands of bootleg movies in...
View ArticleWhat Really Happened During Mexico City's Airport Shoot-Out?
Deputy Chief Luis Cardenas Palomino at his press conference At 8:33 in the morning on Monday, June 25, 2012, the sound of gunfire erupted in Terminal 2 of the Mexico City International Airport. The...
View ArticleAn Interview with Fred Phelps's Son, Nathan
Nathan Phelps (photo via) Westboro Baptist Church founder and world-famous bastard Fred Phelps died last week—and it doesn't look like he'll be missed even by a large part of his large family (he had...
View ArticleCrude Journalism
A fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, forced 15,000 people to seek medical attentiion. Photo courtesy of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Richmond is tucked into California's...
View ArticleKid Cudi Doesn't Write the Rules of Hip-Hop
Kid Cudi Doesn't Write the Rules of Hip-Hop
View ArticleMeet the 'Water Witch' Who Is Helping California Farmers Deal with Drought
Sharron, the water witch in the field. Photo courtesy of Sharron Hope I live in a city and I’ve never seen a water well. It sounds exotic, or even fictional. I just turn on my faucet, water comes out,...
View ArticleNASA Turned to the Internet to Choose the Next Space Suit Design
NASA Turned to the Internet to Choose the Next Space Suit Design
View ArticleAnyone Who Isn’t Dead Is a Witch
Why isn’t everything more messed up? Everything is always the wrong kind of messed up, tangibly messed up, like big-box stores or an entire television network dedicated to 24-hour-a-day celebrity...
View ArticleThe HEMP Party May Win A Senate Seat in Western Australia
On Tuesday Western Australia’s HEMP Party branch launched their senate campaign with a 16 meter inflatable joint in a park opposite parliament house in Perth. About twenty party members showed up and...
View ArticleThe Hate Boat: Wanted: tropical island to fill with asylum seekers
Image by Ben Thomson This week’s immigration news takes an interesting route. What starts off as a tropical jaunt to Papua New Guinea with our fearless leader soon leaves us sunburnt, seasick, and...
View ArticleIt's Now Illegal to Protest Oil and Gas Exploration in New Zealand
Image via New Zealanders recently lost the right to formally oppose deep-sea oil and gas exploration. As of this month, the public are effectively muzzled while Big Oil companies looking to strike...
View ArticleCreating Sand Castles with a Single Grain of Sand
Creating Sand Castles with a Single Grain of Sand
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Ed Templeton - Part 6
In the final part of Ed's episode, he discusses the many highs and lows that Toy Machine has faced since he began the company. And when a leg injury sidelines Ed from skating, he and Deanna confront...
View ArticleVICE News: The Devil Tried to Divide Us - Full Length
The Central African Republic's capital of Bangui has seen its Muslim population drop from 130,000 to under 1,000 during the past few months. Over the past year, thousands across CAR have been killed,...
View ArticleSyrian Children Are Drawing to Heal the Trauma of War
In an upscale district of Downtown Beirut, two pre-teen boys rapped in Arabic during an exhibit showcasing the artwork of Syrian refugee children. Ramzi, a 12-year-old originally from Daraa, Syria,...
View ArticleWhy the 'Cock in a Sock' Thing Is Vain Bullshit
#cockinasock for @checkemlads testicular cancer awareness !screen shot of donation will follow as it's on my phone pic.twitter.com/zwX0yRMOfn — Calum Best Official (@CalumBest) March 24, 2014 Above:...
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