Religion Is Taking Over Los Angeles
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View ArticleHow the Sequester’s Sticking It to Poor People: Criminal Edition
Photo by krystian_o, via Flickr The across the board cuts in federal discretionary spending, known to all as sequestration, has forced the judiciary to cut funding for a rarely considered but integral...
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With a reported value of over six billion dollars, it’s no secret that marijuana in British Columbia is big business. However, due to the recent legalization of weed in Washington and Colorado, the...
View ArticleTaji's Mahal: The Serra Brothers
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View ArticleI'm a Dummy from New Jersey
Photo via Wikimedia Commons I am not good at hooking up with people in New York City. Let’s review some facts about NYC. Bars don’t close until four in the morning. Public transportation runs 24-hours...
View ArticleNaked on Skype with Spencer Tunick
You know Spencer Tunick – the famed artist who photographs mass groups of naked people, thousands and thousands of naked people in spectacular bodily landscapes. Basically, no one else has fought city...
View ArticleBangladesh’s Islamists Call for Death of ‘Atheist Bloggers’
The Bengali calendar turned anew on April 15th marking the beginning of the year 1420. But a rising tide of violent confrontations and political bickering makes it seem like the country is slipping...
View ArticleWeediquette – Postcard from Cannabis Cup
Still from an episode of High Maintanence. Nice pants kid. In my mind, the Cannabis Cup never actually existed. It was a cliché, a staple phrase of high school stoner conversation, and it was held in...
View ArticleManny Is Being Manny in Taiwan
On a humid, rainy evening in early April, Taiwanese baseball afficianados packed Xinzhuang Stadium in Taipei for an early-season tilt between the EDA Rhinos and the hometown Elephant Brothers. This...
View Article‘Killing an Arab’ Isn't Pamela Geller's Favorite Song by the Cure
Photo via Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of Pamela Geller. An interview with Pamela Geller would seem like it would be pretty straightforward. Not too many people know who she is, but amongst those who...
View ArticleAbsolute Boys - "Endless Projections"
Get interpretive with the new video from Absolute Boys, the Melbourne locals with a knack for making cold weather surf music that sounds like it was recorded underwater. The song is “Endless...
View ArticleNY State of Mind #1
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
View ArticleKilling Them Softly
Tinta, who kills people for money in Medellin, Colombia, has tattoos all over his body; he says they are rebel symbols. Photo by Erika Carmona Ortega. The Russian was 13 years old when he first killed...
View ArticleStop Freaking out About the Luis Suarez Bite
Luis Suarez (photo via) Biting is the one indisputable reminder that humans really are what they wish they were not: animals. Biting is for raccoons, rats, and the rabid—an ignoble inconvenience you...
View ArticlePen Pals: Dying of a Dirty Mouth
Photo via Flickr user mariacasa I’ve got an announcement: I’m finishing up a survival guide for how to survive in prison to be published as an as-real book. This book is for any man or woman in search...
View ArticleMexicalia: Jaime Maussan and the Third Millennium
Jaime Maussan is Mexico's leading ufologist. His TV show, Contact, has run for decades, and he consistently packs auditoriums, where he enlightens audiences with his knowledge of the cosmos and life...
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