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Cry-Baby of the Week
It's time, once again, to despair at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world: Cry-Baby #1: The Organizers Of the 14th Annual Richmond Homeschool Prom Photos via Wine & Marble The...
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To Be Raped or to Become a Prostitute
An Ethiopian domestic worker hangs washed clothes on a balcony in Beirut, Lebanon in 2007. Photo by AP/Grace Kassab, file. Elhanan is a 24-year-old Ethiopian woman with broad shoulders, short black...
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The Raëlian UFO Cult Would Be Happy to Baptize Pope Francis
Raëlians in France set up an inflatable flying saucer with the movement's logo. By now, you've probably heard that Pope Francis is cool with aliens. In an out-of-the-blue nod to the possibility of...
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Meet the Woman Taking on Canadian Mining Companies
Rachel, left, in action. Photo via Allan Lissner. By now most Canadians are at least mildly aware of the damage that mining companies can do to the environment and the indigenous communities who live...
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We Reviewed the 'Duck Dynasty' Guy's Indie Side Project
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VICE News: Last Chance High - Part 7
In episode seven of Last Chance High, we meet 13-year-old Keontay, who is enamored with gang life, his disabled mother Takita, who has lost all hope of prying him from the streets, and a former gang...
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Opposition Is Mounting Against the Conservatives’ Surveillance-Friendly...
Screencap via. The Conservatives have had the misfortune of getting called out repeatedly in committee, as Members of Parliament heard from witnesses on Bill C-13: a piece of legislation that has...
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The Democratic Party's Future Is Awash in Dark Money
The path Obama's party might follow is clouded by corporate cash. Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey Looking for the fight over the heart and soul of the Democratic Party in the waning days of the...
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Why an Undocumented Immigrant Ousted Himself Twice
For the first 13 years of his career as a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas did his best to avoid two topics: immigration and himself. That trajectory flipped in 2011 in a The New York Times Magazine...
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A Slob's Guide to Critical Theory
Illustrations by Jenny Hirons If you decide to get any kind of arts or humanities degree at college you will probably have to read post-modern, neo-Marxist, social and literary critics who write in...
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This Week in Racism: A Police Commissioner Called Barack Obama the N-Word and...
Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist. –82-year-old shitbag...
View ArticleRaquel Meyers Makes Art with a Commodore 64
Raquel Meyers Makes Art with a Commodore 64
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Requiem for India’s Congress Party: A Loser’s Diary
Gulseer at his home in Amethi District. All photos by the author Gulseer, who goes by one name, is about 34 or 35 years old. His exact age has escaped him. He’s been married to his wife, Ayesha, for...
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The Best Place to Furnish Your Home in Yellowknife Is YKEA: The City Dump
All photos via the author. The snow is finally melting in the Northwest Territories, revealing a year’s worth of mouldy junk in Yellowknife, the capital city. It’s a dusty and dirty time of year, a...
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Here Are Some Great Photos of People Posing Next to a Cardboard Cutout of the...
All photos via Flickr user Catholic United Financial Last September I wrote a blog post about the pope, and to find an image that could go with it I started browsing through Flickr's Creative Commons...
View ArticleIran's Life-Saving Drones May Be Coming to a Beach Near You
Iran's Life-Saving Drones May Be Coming to a Beach Near You
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Pakistan's Transgender Community Is Hiding Out in a Hostile City
Hijras pose in their office in Peshawar, Pakistan. All photos by Abdul Majeed Goraya "My father used to beat me and ask, ‘Why do you have to go around pretending to be a girl?’” Now at 35, she says...
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Go Home Godzilla, You're Wasting Everyone's Time
Godzilla in the mist Back in 1998, I went to see the newly released Godzilla film for my tenth birthday. I remember seeing the trailer before something else, perhaps Men In Black, or Independence Day,...
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Soft Taboo: An Interview with Andreas Kronthaler
All photos by Lukas Gansterer When we met with Andreas Kronthaler for this interview, we didn’t know what to expect. We heard the most outrageous rumors, of which licking male model’s nipples before...
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