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This Subreddit Tells You Exactly How Ugly You Are
The AmIUgly subreddit homepage Do you have deep-seated insecurity issues? Are you constantly looking for validation from family members, colleagues, and retail staff? Instead of bothering your mom or...
View ArticleMexicalia: Mexican Narco Music Is the Soundtrack to the War on Drugs - Part 1
Mexico's narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrates the most extreme aspects of the country's drug war. The songs are filled with catchy, detailed narrations of beheadings, executions,...
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Sothern Exposure: A Couple from Venice Beach
1967 A chick I met a couple of days ago lives in a garage with her boyfriend in Venice Beach, and they’re letting me crash here, with my sleeping bag on the floor. Her name is Nance, and his name is...
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Paris Hilton Is the Most Underrated Pop Star of All Time
Exclusive photos courtesy of Paris Hilton Paris Hilton is better than you. This is an indisputable fact. You might think she's “famous for being famous,” but while her trust-fund-kid peers lived off...
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NBA Journalists Are Everything Mainstream Journalists Aren’t
David Aldridge interviewing Gregg Popovich. Photo via Wikimedia Commons In a recent conversation on Twitter about NBA free agency, Elias Isquith of Salon expressed amusement at the fact that...
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A Visit to One of Germany's All-You-Can-Fuck Brothels
The King George Brothel in Berlin opens at 4 PM, Monday through Sunday, excluding the Christmas Holidays. For €99 ($135) you can stay there until dawn, when the first street cleaners are passing, and...
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I Used Roach Killer to Cure My Yeast Infection
Editors note: You probably shouldn't try this at home. Vulvovaginal candidiasis, commonly known as a “yeast infection,” is experienced by at least 75 percent of women in their adult lives. Most people...
View ArticleI Lied to Future About Being a Dad in Order to Talk to Him About Fatherhood
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View ArticleThe Year's Best Film About Income Inequality Was Nearly Ruined by the 1 Percent
The Year's Best Film About Income Inequality Was Nearly Ruined by the 1 Percent
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Two Would-Be Jihadists, Two Very Different Responses from the FBI
Shannon Maureen Conley and Basit Javed Sheikh planned trips to Syria to join up with jihadists. One is a 19-year-old citizen from Arvada, Colorado, named Shannon Maureen Conley. The other is a...
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Is Macedonia on the Brink of Another Ethnic Conflict?
The Macedonian capital of Skopje saw its second angry Albanian demonstration in as many weeks on Friday. A week earlier, on July 4, the city’s Albanian minority rioted against the outcome of a...
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Tao of Terence: Terence McKenna's Memes
GIF by Daniel Stuckey Last week, in "Beyond 'Existentialism,'" the first installment of this series, I told the story of how I first encountered Terence McKenna. This week, I’ve organized a list of my...
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Japan or China? Australia Picks Both
Last week there was a lot of talk in the media about Australia’s relationship with two nations in our region, Japan and China. The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was visiting Australia to finalise...
View ArticleAn NFL Player Explains Why College Athletes Deserve to Be Paid
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View ArticleVICE News: The Sahara's Forgotten War - Part 1
If you ask the linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, the Arab Spring did not begin in Tunisia in 2011—it began with the October 2010 protests in the town of Gdeim Izik, in Western Sahara's occupied...
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Does Sydney Need Another Supervised Injecting Room?
In 1999, the streets of Sydney were awash with heroin, with an escalating number of drug overdoses. At this time, a group of community leaders set up the Tolerance Room at the Wayside Chapel in Kings...
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How to Really Stop the Surge of Migrant Children
Photo via Flickr user Barnaby Dorfman Good Golly, Miss Molly. Thousands of Central American children who have illegally crossed the border into the US sure are causing a lot of problems over in...
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Israel's Bombardment of Gaza Earns Thumbs Up from New York Politicians
A gaggle of New York's Democratic power players felt the need to Stand with Israel on Monday. Photo by the author When I asked US Congressman Jerrold Nadler at a pro-Israel rally on Monday whether our...
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