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The Fast Food Strike Could Mean the End of Everything
Photo by Flickr User mtume_soul. Across the United States, fast food workers are throwing down their aprons and spatulas, and taking to the streets to demand a living wage. The current federal minimum...
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Weediquette: Shoob the Weed Snatcher
Photo via Flickr user Jennifer Peyton. There are very few valuable items in this world that are shared enthusiastically among both friends and strangers—in fact, it seems that weed might be the only...
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Loni Love Talks About Her Weird Real World Guide to Dating
Image courtesy of Simon & Schuster. Where most comedians deal with drunks and hecklers, Loni Love often finds herself bombarded with audience members asking her for relationship help—she's become...
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Learning How to Have Sex Like a Gay Man
Photo via Flickr user Marcus Hansson Here's a revelation that's also a brag: as dusk was settling over a music festival I attended recently, I was coming in the middle of a crowd. Coming from being...
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The Rent Is Too Damn High Guy Is Still Running for Mayor of NYC
The rent is still too damn high. It’s so high that Jimmy McMillan, the founder and pretty much the only member of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, can't afford a campaign office for his latest bid...
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More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria
Driving through the streets of Aleppo. My heart is in my throat. I haven't taken a full breath for 24 hours. On the horizon is the sight I'd been hoping to avoid: black flags and men in smocks with...
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Exploring Vietnam's Lunchtime Sex Motels
Nha Nghis in Hanoi’s Long Biên district. Vietnam has its priorities firmly in place. A pack of Marlboro Reds is cheaper than a cup of coffee, a liter of Hanoi Vodka costs less than a box of cereal,...
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Uganda Are Taking Israel's Unwanted Asylum Seekers to Get Cheaper Weapons
Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who last week announced that he will start deporting Israel's African migrants to Uganda. (Photo via) Earlier this month, it was reported that Israel were...
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You Can Get Away with Murder When Your Dad Is an Afghan Warlord
Shakila's dead body. (Photo via) On a cold January afternoon last year, Qurban the bodyguard left his boss's house in Bamyan province, Afghanistan to buy some coal at the bazar. Qurban's boss was...
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Moroccans Are Sick of Their Country's Pedophile Problem
Daniel Fino Galvan, the convicted paedophile who was pardoned by the king of Morocco. Police handout When convicted Spanish pedophile Daniel Fino Galvan was pardoned by the king of Morocco last month,...
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Verizon Isn’t Coming to Canada and that Sucks
Verizon, embodied as a rat, from a union protest in Philadelphia. via WikiCommons. I don't think anyone can argue that the average cell phone bill in Canada isn't insanely overpriced. We only have to...
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Bad Cop Blotter: The DEA Is Monitoring America's Phone Calls
Photo via Flickr user Sam Stokes On Sunday, the New York Times revealed the existence of a program known as the Hemisphere Project, which gives the Drug Enforcement Administration and local law...
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Was Mahmoud Sarsak Sent to Prison For Being Good at Soccer?
Mahmoud Sarsak In the West, athletes tend to get in trouble with the cops for totalling their cars while drunk, having sex with prostitutes, or brawling in expensive nightclubs. Mahmoud Sarsak, on the...
View ArticleVICE Shorts: 'Eat!' by Janicza Bravo
After getting locked out of her apartment, a young woman finds herself in the company of a strange and lonely neighbor. Eat! is a short film directed by Janicza Bravo and starring Brett Gelman and...
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September Bloodbath
Frau Grautisch lived near us in Cologne. She was at daggers drawn with Aunt Adelheid, and friends with me. I’d run into her only a couple of days before, when she was fetching a liter of beer from the...
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