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Are We There Yet? - Apocalyptic Christians Are Boring
Are We There Yet? is a feature in which I break down the current issue of Endtime magazine, the bimonthly print publication of Endtime Ministries. As you might have guessed, Endtime’s purpose is to...
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David Gordon Green Talks About His New Movie, 'Prince Avalanche'
Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in Prince Avalanche. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures David Gordon Green is a tough man to pin down. He began his career with the intimate and lyrical dramas George...
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The Demise of Lavabit and Silent Circle Means Your Emails Will Never Be Safe...
The NSA's headquarters in Maryland. via. This week, two encrypted email providers shut down their services, and that’s very bad news if you’d rather the government didn’t read your private...
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Interviewing the Editor of the Middle East's Version of the 'Onion'
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohamed Morsi playing squash. All images courtesy of the Pan-Arabia Enquirer For reasons pertaining to sanity, it tends to be useful to occasionally find humor in the midst of...
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The Burka Avenger's Creator Talks About the Pakistani Cartoon's Haters
Burka Avenger is a Pakistani cartoon about an ass-kicking superheroine who fights bad guys and wears a ninja-style burka to conceal her identity. The show has been making its rounds through the media...
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This Week in Racism: Oprah Accused a Swiss Person of Racism
Photo by Flickr User whoohoo120 Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most...
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There Are So Many Other Reasons to Hate the Olympics
An extremely hetero pageant to celebrate the upcoming Sochi Olympics. via Flickr. With the Sochi Winter Olympics only six months away, denizens of the internet, media pundits, and LGBTQ activists have...
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Question of the Day: Is It OK to Steal from Rich People?
Kim Kardashian is a rich person with lots of stuff. Photo via I know, I know—we were all brought up to understand that stealing is wrong. But is stealing really that wrong when the person you're...
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I Spoke to Some Sex Addicts About Anthony Weiner
Image via/via Unless you have been in a coma for the past few months, I don’t need to tell you what former congressman and current NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has been doing with his penis....
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The Best of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Clown Prince of Russian Politics
Vladimir Zhirinovsky sounds like a serious person on paper. He's a colonel in the Russian army, Vice-Chairman of the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s legislature), a member of the Parliamentary...
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Sympathy for the Beijing Airport Bomber
Beijing Capital Interational Airport terminal three, without a trace of the bomb set off by Ji Zhongxing. Photo via Flickr user thewamphyri. The day before Ji Zhongxing detonated a homemade explosive...
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Taji's Mahal: Billy Rohan Left Florida to Create Illuminati Videos
This week, I caught up with my forever friend, the Mason, pro skateboard personality, and filmmaker Billy Rohan. After spending a year in Florida to gather his thoughts, he’s back in New York City to...
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Weinergates in Waiting: Will My Sexts Come Back to Haunt Me Too?
Somewhere in the world, in someone else’s possession, there are some fairly pornographic selfies of me. There is also an array of sexts so vulgarly composed as to make my mother’s uterus blush for...
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John Kerry Doesn't Realize Middle Eastern Peace Is an Oxymoron
Image courtesy of Flickr user DonkeyHotey. Here's a remark that probably won't be uttered this weekend at the kitchen table: “Hey, honey, great news! Middle East peace talks are resuming on August...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Cooking Meth on ‘Breaking Bad’
Frank Ockenfels/AMC. Disclaimer: Cooking and/or selling methamphetamine and other controlled substances is illegal unless you are working under the aegis of a pharmaceutical company. As a chemist and...
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Weediquette: The Panickers
Image of wuss who probably can't handle weed via Flickr user newagecrap. As far as weed is concerned, there are two types of people in the world: those who love weed and those who can’t handle it. The...
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I'm a Russian Lesbian Pretending to Be Straight to Avoid Persecution
When I came out to my Russian mother, she shook her head and attempted to ignore my homosexuality for nearly a year. In June, before I left for Toronto's Pride Parade with my girlfriend, she told me...
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I Tried to Talk Drugs with the Creator of 'Breaking Bad'
UPDATE: While every plot point discussed in this interview has already aired and been discussed in multiple corners of the internet, if you didn't see the last couple of episodes this article will...
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