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Taji's Mahal: Billy Rohan Left Florida to Create Illuminati Videos
This week, I caught up with my forever friend, the Mason, pro skateboard personality, and filmmaker Billy Rohan. After spending a year in Florida to gather his thoughts, he’s back in New York City to...
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John Kerry Doesn't Realize Middle Eastern Peace Is an Oxymoron
Image courtesy of Flickr user DonkeyHotey. Here's a remark that probably won't be uttered this weekend at the kitchen table: “Hey, honey, great news! Middle East peace talks are resuming on August...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Cooking Meth on ‘Breaking Bad’
Frank Ockenfels/AMC. Disclaimer: Cooking and/or selling methamphetamine and other controlled substances is illegal unless you are working under the aegis of a pharmaceutical company. As a chemist and...
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Weediquette: The Panickers
Image of wuss who probably can't handle weed via Flickr user newagecrap. As far as weed is concerned, there are two types of people in the world: those who love weed and those who can’t handle it. The...
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I'm a Russian Lesbian Pretending to Be Straight to Avoid Persecution
When I came out to my Russian mother, she shook her head and attempted to ignore my homosexuality for nearly a year. In June, before I left for Toronto's Pride Parade with my girlfriend, she told me...
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Heroin Junkies Create the Most Depressing Instagrams
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I Tried To Deport Bums To An Abandoned Amusement Park But It Didn’t Work
Back in 2011 New Orleans had 6,500 people living on the streets, which for a city of 360,000 was around two percent of the population. This may not seem huge but by simple comparison Los Angeles,...
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I Tried to Talk Drugs with the Creator of 'Breaking Bad'
UPDATE: We originally published this article several months ago. In honor of the final episodes of Breaking Bad, we're republishing it. While every plot point discussed in this interview has already...
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Loyalists Spent Friday Night Fighting Police in Belfast
A loyalist protester, whose sign reads, "Our only crime is loyalty!!!" at Friday's republican march in Belfast. Northern Ireland's loyalists are pissed off. On Friday night they injured more than 50...
View ArticleThe Greatest Summer Jam Since 1980 - Round One
The Greatest Summer Jam Since 1980 - Round One
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When Are We Going to Finally Colonize Space?
Image courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada The Earth is doomed, and the only question is how long humanity has left. Fortunately, we have options: in the past few years there’s been a flurry of potentially...
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Long Live the New Flesh
Slate and Stone jacket, Benson shirt, Richard Chai pants Photos By Richard Kern, Stylist: Annette Lamothe-Ramos Photo Assistant: Max Dworkin; Hair and Makeup: Tayler Treadwell; Set Design: Scott...
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Competitive Eating’s Next Great Rivalry Is Chestnut Versus Stonie
Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie battle it out for the World Gyro Eating Championship in Houston, Texas, on May 19. Joey won by eating 22 1/4 gyros in ten minutes, while Matt finished second, with 20....
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There Are So Many Other Reasons to Hate the Olympics
An extremely hetero pageant to celebrate the upcoming Sochi Olympics. Image via Flickr With the Sochi Winter Olympics only six months away, denizens of the internet, media pundits, and LGBTQ activists...
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The Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown
Image via Nikki Loehr Barrett Brown has been sitting in prison, without trial, for almost a year. In case you haven’t followed his case, the 31-year-old journalist is facing a century of prison time...
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Reading 'Born Again' in Jail
I’ve spent the last year or so in a federal lock-up awaiting trial on charges that have been duly analyzed elsewhere. Long story short: I’m facing decades in prison. This is inconvenient in some...
View ArticleIntelligent People Are Just as Racist as the Rest of the Big Stupid World
Intelligent People Are Just as Racist as the Rest of the Big Stupid World
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Is Twitter Superhero Cory Booker in Silicon Valley’s Pocket?
Cory Booker laughing it up at TechCrunch Disrupt, a tech-industry conference, in 2012. (Photo by Max Morse/Getty Images) and via TechCrunch's Flickr account Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New...
View ArticleNoisey: Guitar Moves - Leroy Troy
In the eleventh episode of Guitar Moves, Matt Sweeney meets master of the clawhammer banjo Leroy Troy to learn how to cut some monkeyshines. Guitar Moves, hosted by Matt Sweeney, is a show where the...
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