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Turkey's Weekend of Street War, Jubilation and Joyridden Bulldozers
"There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Turkish television on Sunday. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social...
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The Meth-Fuelled, Week-Long Orgies Ravaging London's Gay Sex Party Scene
Tim, who used to organise "slamming" parties until he got out of the scene a couple of years ago. Week-long, unprotected orgies fuelled by intravenous doses of crystal methamphetamine are an...
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The Canadian Senate Is a Waste of Money
Mike Duffy, presumably thinking about ways to cheat taxpayers out of their hard-earned money so he can buy some tasty snacks. via. If you’ve read a Canadian newspaper in the last few weeks (and I know...
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American Schoolteachers' Pensions Are Partially Funded by Private Prisons
Photo via Flickr user Rennett Stowe American public schools and prisons are becoming increasingly linked—police officers are now a constant presence in many schools, which has led to students getting...
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The Tribal Feud Tearing Libya Apart
At an army checkpoint on the way into the Libyan city of Misrata, an angry police officer with a pistol tucked into his pants demands I give a blood sample before locking me in a trailer. For what...
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Dogmageddon: Sacrificing Virgins
Photo via. Back in the day, if you wanted god to bless your crops and make them grow high to the heavens, you prayed for rain. If that didn't work, you built a temple or maybe slaughtered a goat. And...
View ArticleBradley Manning's Trial Starts Today
It was in the final stretch of what unexpectedly became a five-mile trek through the blistering heat near Ft. Meade where a beige sedan slowed down and its driver gestured for me to get in. Maybe it...
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The Mating Rituals of the Renaissance Pleasure Fair
Photos by Jennie Ross The first thing you need to know when you go to a Renaissance fair is that you’re a mundane. The people of the fair don’t give a shit about where you DJ, the art collective you...
View ArticleNothing Is Less Funny Than Scientologists Doing Comedy
All the great men of history have had their escape valves, their private passions. Einstein played the violin. Disraeli wrote romantic novels. Napoleon used to rub two ferrets covered in sulphur...
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Dipping My Dick in the NoFap Movement
Here's an example of the type of stressed out Snapchats my friends had to receive from me. As I write this, it’s been over 30 days since I last masturbated. Consciously giving up jerking off is a lot...
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A Chat with Nate Kogan About His Boob GIFs
An exclusive video collage of kaleidoscope'd butts that Nate made for us. The first time I met Nate Kogan he was at a house party wearing a bunny suit that was splattered with fake blood. I'd see Nate...
View ArticleThe Five Best Things Made Out of Leather at Summer Jam 2013
The Five Best Things Made Out of Leather at Summer Jam 2013
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Turkey Is Waging an Invisible War Against Its Dissidents
A wall of Greek riot police. (Photo by Henry Langston) For the past week, we’ve been watching scenes of mayhem unfold in the streets of Istanbul, Ankara and other major Turkish cities. What started...
View ArticleGround Zero: Syria - Snipers of Aleppo
Over the last six months the FSA and the battle for Aleppo has transitioned from a full-on frontline assault into a slow-paced but still deadly sniper war. Photographer and videographer Robert King...
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The RZA and Adrian Younge Are Supreme Mutant Beings
RZA. Photo via Wikipedia. One of the high points in my career as a journalist happened back in January, when I had the honor of chewing the fat with my hero and Wu-Tang Clan mastermind, the RZA. We...
View ArticleMotherboard: High Country - Part 1
Matt Ellis doesn’t smoke weed. He simply doesn’t enjoy being stoned. The all-too-familiar itch of paranoia that follows a few deep rips of pot is enough to keep him from using. But that’s not to say...
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Was Adam Nobody, a G20 Protester, Assaulted for Carrying an Explosive Water...
Photo by Carl Heindl. The dust has not settled over Toronto’s violent G20 protests from 2010. In response to the planet’s most powerful leaders congregating in Ontario’s capital city, massive security...
View ArticleGerald Koch Hasn't Been Accused of a Crime, But the Feds Put Him in Jail Anyway
A New York anarchist has been jailed for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury about his political beliefs, his friends, and the legal support he provided to Occupy Wall Street. Gerald...
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