Walmart Employees Have Nothing to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
Anthony Goytia, whose yearly income is only $12,000 as a Walmart associate. When Anthony Goytia sits down with his wife and three children for Thanksgiving dinner in East Los Angeles, he's going to be...
View ArticleThanksgivukkah Is Coming and It Will be the Greatest Night of Our Lives
Photo via Wiki Creative Commons Thanksgivukkah 2013 is just around the corner and no one is more excited for it than me. Okay maybe Rob Reiner. That’s right, Thanksgiving, the national holiday where...
View ArticleDeath and the NSA: Motherboard Meets Bruce Schneier
Death and the NSA: Motherboard Meets Bruce Schneier
View ArticlePen Pals: Prison Gerrymandering Is Absolute Bullshit
A lot of the time, when someone in New York City says they’re going “upstate” it means they’re going to prison. Most of the state prisons are north of the city, some practically on the Canadian...
View ArticleThe New Slums of Baghdad
Photos by Dylan Roberts Huddled in the back seat of our convoy, I got a blurred view of Baghdad as we passed through the city center. It was hard to catch a glimpse of anything when our car was...
View ArticleAustralia's Refugee Situation Is About to Get Even More Bleak
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Photo via Unsurprisingly, revelations that Australian intelligence agencies spied on the Indonesian president and his wife haven't done wonders for the...
View ArticleIsa Muazu Would Rather Die Than Be Deported
Isa Muazu is currently languishing, emaciated, in an immigration detention center next to Heathrow airport. Barring a last ditch legal challenge, he will be on flight EDC684 back to Abuja, in Nigeria...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Geoff Rowley
In part three of the Geoff episode, we talk about the Sorry trilogy, his forward-thinking pro shoe, and the Vans video he's working on at the moment. But we're not done yet: We're also putting...
View ArticleDeep-Fried America on a Stick
All photos by Bruce Gilden Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden—who also happens to be my husband—has photographed the Yakuza in Japan, traipsed through the slums of Haiti too many times to count, and...
View ArticleI Fuck, Therefore I Am
Beware of Satan! via Tumblr user "fecskelaszlo." A few months ago I published a piece about a torrid, semi-relationship I had with a cuckold fetishist on this other website. Before the article went...
View ArticleThis Angolan Lady Walks Around London Campaigning to Save Blonde People
Maria with a blonde person Say hello to Maria de Jesus-Lucungo. Not only does Maria share a name with the benevolent oracle of the Christian faith, she's also inherited some of his selflessness and...
View ArticleBitcoin Has Already Morphed Society
Bitcoin Armstrong. via the Bitcoin subreddit. Ever since the value of one Bitcoin rose above $200 USD in late October, I’ve been obsessively catching up on all the lost time I’ve missed out on since...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: An unnamed family member of Adric White FOX10 via Reddit The incident: A man was shot by an armed...
View ArticleA Convict Killed His Cellmate to Avoid Deportation
In a county that neighbors the jurisdiction of Joe Arpaio, America’s Trollingest Sheriff, law enforcement says an inmate was so desperate to stay in America that he horribly murdered his cellmate....
View ArticleKathleen Hanna Talks Punk Rock, Death, and Miley Cyrus
Kathleen Hanna performing with Bikini Kill in 1991, image via Kathleen Hanna is, was, and always shall be a polarizing person. As the lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill, her unapologetic views...
View ArticleWalmart Still Hasn’t Paid Its Fine From the 2008 Black Friday Trampling Death
Jdimytai Damour via CBS Walmart received a $7,000 fine from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2008 after a Long Island store’s annual orchestrated stampede got too intense...
View ArticleA Vandal Has Been Trimming Dick Sculptures Out of Bushes
A vandal has been invading the Windsor Sculpture Park in Ontario, Canada, creating dicks out of bushes. Since October, there have been three incidents of bushes being transformed into leafy...
View ArticleThese Artists Used Candy to Build Replicas of Famous Museums
When Dylan’s Candy Bar invited Henry Hargreaves and Caitlin Levin to create artwork out of candy for a show during Art Basel Miami, the artists jumped at the chance to turn something traditional, like...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: The Public Fruit of Erin Albrecht
Photos by Erin Albrecht For this week's Mahal, I caught up with photo extraordinaire, Erin Albrecht. Unlike most photographers, Erin never shoots parties, fashion shows, or other events. Instead, she...
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