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Egypt's Black Bloc—An Exclusive Interview
All afternoon last Thursday, demonstrators in Egypt were tearing chunks from a concrete wall on Cairo’s Qasr Al-Aini Street, hurling the stones at riot police who attempted to disperse them with tear...
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R.I.P. Ed Koch (1924-2013)
The author and Ed Koch, the 105th mayor of New York City, who died last night of congestive heart failure. As Capitol Hill sinks further into the murk of half-truths and party-line politics, we need...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: An unidentified 21-year-old woman 19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|News, Weather, Sports (via) The incident: A woman knocked over a traffic cone while taking her driving test. The...
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Fightland: Ottavia Bourdain: My Jiu-Jitsu Addiction
There’s a chair facing the mats at the academy. There’s always someone sitting in that chair during classes. Someone with a knee brace. Or an arm sling. Or crutches. Someone who’s injured but can’t...
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VICE Shorts: I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Bear'
[Editor's Note: Welcome to "I'm Short, Not Stupid," a weekly column focused on highlighting rare and obscure short films. Enjoy this flick (the video is at the bottom) and check back next week for...
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Tubesteak: Why Are All These Gays Taking Grindr Photos at a Holocaust Memorial?
When you click on the website Grindr Remembers, which went viral earlier this week, you are flooded with a rush of conflicted emotions. The first is confusion, probably followed by a boner. Where is...
View ArticleMeet the Guys Who Want to Turn Tony Danza into a Dadaist Meme
A few days ago, I got an email about a Kickstarter project that sounded like something you'd come up with after driving around the suburbs in the dark for hours while swigging NyQuil. It’s called...
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Sad-Ass Music #7: I Get by with a Little Help from My Commenters
I realize that any time someone writes from their gut and expresses their opinion on any type of subject, and then the public is given an open forum to express their thoughts on that original writer's...
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The Mercy Rule: Why Breitbart Sports Will Fail, I Hope
When he died of a heart attack last year, there were people who mourned Andrew Breitbart, right-wing media mogul and rancid human oyster, as a hero. These were the people you’d expect to respond that...
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Obseshes: Let's All Stop Complaining About High School
HIGH SCHOOL “Peaked in high school” is a sound concept: a lot of people do. (A lot, a lot, a lot.) The adult lives of many high school mob bosses are just sad as all fuck, not sad like “I’m judging...
View ArticleTaji’s Mahal – Stockton’s Bums
For this week's Mahal, FDR shredder Matt Gilbert invited me to an art show by Sean Stockton, his ex-Woodward skate counselor. I have seen Sean skating around in the past but never imagined that he was...
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Talkin''Bout the Boards: This Is What Classifies as Gonzo These Days!?
Dear VICERS, It's me Nick Gazin, and I'M back to let YOU know that I can really shake it down. Do you love me? As I sometimes like doing, I drew little cartoons about the three dumbest comments left...
View ArticleThe Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz
I just finished Infinite Jest. Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss. It's sprawling, and by this point, all the important details from the...
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A Bike Ride to the Top of Rio's Oldest Favela
In preparation for the upcoming World Cup and Olympics, the Rio de Janeiro City Government is in the process of evicting thousands of residents of Providência, the oldest favela in Rio de Janeiro....
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Gavin Haynes's Sleepless Nights: Reasons Why Everyone Should Start a New Life...
Britain is an intolerable shithole, and you're an idiot if you want to live there. Not my words, but the paraphrased sentiments of the British government, that, it emerged last weekend, is considering...
View ArticleThe Defector
He steps through the splintered front door of an apartment building, leans stooped, shoulder against a charred wall. Twenty years old. Gashes of stubble on his drawn cheeks, sharp chin. A sweatshirt...
View ArticleWeediquette – Searching for My Stoner Queen
If there’s such a thing as romantic weed smoking, it’s different from the massive bong hits and rolling contests of homeydom. It's more intimate. Two people meet, decide that they like each other, and...
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Olympic Medalist Danny Kass Tried to Teach Me to Snowboard
I’m one of those pretend-athletes. I go to the gym a four or five times a week, but I have zero coordination. I “race” on a stationary bike to the imaginary scenery that the spinning studio so...
View ArticleTestilying: Cops Are Liars Who Get Away with Perjury
You are a police officer, patrolling your route in East New York. You see someone walking down the street; they are carrying a bag. You are bored and not really doing anything else and have been...
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