Nope, the GOP Still Isn't Libertarian
Republican senator Ted Cruz speaking to a conference of social conservatives. When this guy is considered a leading figure in your party, you're a long way from libertarianism. Photo via Flickr user...
View ArticleWhy 'Hot Fuss' by The Killers is About a Murderous Homosexual Relationship
Why 'Hot Fuss' by The Killers is About a Murderous Homosexual Relationship
View ArticleA Moron's Guide to...: A Moron's Guide to Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger is known by most people as an owlish man who likes defining the middle class and running the Guardian. But this week he's found himself becoming "the story". After David Cameron...
View ArticleGreg Palast's Column: The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global...
When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s...
View ArticleBig Night Out: Psytrance Rave in a Forest
In the second episode of the new Big Night Out video series, Clive Martin ventures into the little-understood world of Psytrance. He stumbles across a forest rave deep in the English countryside, and...
View ArticleSome Credible Scientists Believe Humanity Is Verrrrrry Close to Destruction
Presumably painted by a Near Term Extinctionist. via Flickr. If you were to zoom out and take a comparative look back at our planet during the 1950s from some sort of cosmic time-travelling orbiter...
View ArticleHow the US Jailed the Waterboarding Whisteblower
How the US Jailed the Waterboarding Whisteblower
View ArticleI Escaped Death in an Egyptian Police Van but Witnessed an Attempted Rape
Randel (left) and I between interrogations at the police station. At this point we still thought the ordeal would be over pretty quickly and were treating it as more of an adventure than a living...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: What's the Stupidest Argument You've Ever Had?
(Image via) We all argue. But, unlike 34-year-old Jayson Laughman from Orlando, it's rare that we pull samurai swords on our mum's boyfriends over arguments about tinned shrimp. I decided to ask some...
View ArticleIs the Syrian Regime Responsible for the Worst Chemical Attack in Decades?
The attack came at perhaps a strange time. Over the last few weeks, the Assad regime seemed to be gaining the upperhand in Syria’s complex, protracted civil war. UN Inspectors were in Damascus on a...
View ArticleGeorge Lopez Gave Me a Makeover
In middle school if you had told me that one day an extremely famous Latino comedian would give me a makeover on basic cable I would have called you crazy. But I realised my destiny two years ago when...
View ArticleMichoacán's Community Watch Groups Carry Assault Rifles
Photos by Brett Gundlock The Mexican state of Michoacán is balls deep in violence and corruption, and nobody seems to care. Distorted news reports about the situation are making it difficult to...
View ArticleMore Photos from Corey Feldman's Birthday Party
Yesterday, I wrote a Corey Feldman-approved post about my night at Corey Feldman's birthday party. Despite describing it as a "great article!" prior to publication, Corey took to Twitter to vent...
View ArticleThe Sienese Are Whipping Each Other with Dried Bulls' Penises As Their City...
"The world you've entered," Alarico Rossi warns us on our first night on Siena, "is very different to explore." Here, "We fear everything." It's a sentiment we encounter repeatedly in the small Tuscan...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to name and shame the week's biggest pussies. Cry-Baby #1: Tim Donnelly The incident: California passed a bill that will allow transgender children to use the correct bathrooms....
View ArticleOlugbenga – 'Silver Pixie, Iyawo Mi' (Official Video)
Olugbenga – 'Silver Pixie, Iyawo Mi' (Official Video)
View ArticleThe Big Night Out Soundsystem Are Playing a Carnival After Party
It's Carnival this weekend, and once you've conquered it you're going to want something to do. If you're not blessed enough to be friendly with American ex-pats living in four-storey townhouses in...
View ArticleMilf Teeth: Vaginas Are Ugly
Image via So I was reading about a student magazine that wanted to put photos of vaginas all over its front cover, and feeling all righteous and right-on about it, 'cos the people involved all sounded...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Have You Ever Been in a Situation Where You Needed a Gun?
Some men shooting guns in Arkansas. (Photo via) Arkansas – land of the Clintons, Johnny Cash and the Ozarks – is now home to a school that is arming its teachers with guns. Arkansas Christian Academy...
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