Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Gail Horalek Fox 2 News Headlines (via Reddit) The incident: A girl read The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank as part of a school project. The appropriate response: Realizing that the...
View ArticleA Bicycle Superhighway Was Once the Future of California Transit
A Bicycle Superhighway Was Once the Future of California Transit
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Is Burma’s Government Involved in Ethnic Cleansing?
The last couple of weeks have been filled with mixed news for the Burmese government. On the bright side, the European Union decided to permanently lift sanctions against the country and deeper trade...
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Which Horselete Should You Root for in the Kentucky Derby?
Photo via Flickr user Velo Steve To those who aren’t horse racing fans—a category that includes nearly every person on Earth who isn’t incredibly wealthy or an aging alcoholic gambling addict with a...
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Li'l Thinks: Friends
Illustration by Penelope Gazin I pushed him into a snow bank on the way home from the bar. He was drunk and had to pee and went down, soft like a wool mitten, and then got up, and then I pushed him...
View ArticleVICE on HBO Extended: America's Most Heavily Armed Church
The most talked about topic in America right now is gun control. Weapons and ammo are flying off store shelves and people are beginning to protect themselves on a whole new level. One couple in...
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The Future of Japan Is 'Very Dark,' Says Ryu Murukami
All photo by Nico Perez Ryu Murakami is one of Japan’s most celebrated and controversial authors. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, was a dark book about disillusioned Japanese kids burning...
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This Week in Racism: Clarence Thomas Thinks Barack Obama Was "Approved by the...
Photo by Nate Miller “I got 99 problems, but a racially sensitive world ain’t one.” Welcome back to the only internet column that is guaranteed to put you in a deep state of depression for weeks at a...
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Pen Pals: Bert Meets a Real Rapper Who’s a Year Out of Prison
A weird phenomenon about being locked up in prison that many people probably fail to realize is how many people you meet in the clink-clink. They’re not all bad either. About a year ago, I wrote about...
View ArticleVICE on HBO Extended: Mormon Lost Boys: Lorin's Story
Lorin Holm was excommunicated from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints in 2011 following an edict from imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs. He invited us into his home for a first-hand look at...
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Montreal’s Food Truck Plan Is a Symbolic 'Screw You' to Poor People and...
A lamb curry taco from Grumman '78 in Montreal. Not a bad start, but it can't be the end if Montreal's street food project is going to get real. Photo via 514 Eats. As those who are attentive to...
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Massacre in Jamaica
Cutty Corn, with Scaby Dred, Dudus' uncle, and other Dudus family associates. In May 2010, the Jamaican government, at the request of the United States, set out to extradite Christopher “Dudus” Coke...
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Taji's Mahal: Clayton Patterson's Music Week
For this week's Mahal, I got to talk music with legendary Lower East Side photographer, Clayton Patterson. Over the decades, he has documented just about every memorable show in Lower East Side and...
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Tagging the Revolution in Northern Syria
The small town of Azaz, about 10 miles northwest of Aleppo, has witnessed its fair share of the destruction from Syria’s on-going civil war. Formerly home to a significant army presence due to its...
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Why I Quit Drinking
Photo by edenpictures, via Flickr. I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation. As you can imagine, quitting drinking before the window when it’s socially acceptable to be drunk...
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Burma's Most Decadent Zoo Is Full of Fake Animals
The city of Naypyidaw was secretly built by the Burmese military junta in the early 2000s. Its recognition as the new Burmese capital in 2005 caught everyone off-guard—both the international community...
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Bangladeshi Factory Disasters: Coming to an Australian Store Near You
Mango. Primark. Benetton. They may sound like fashion labels worn by a topless American jock or a baby prostitute, and to an extent that’s probably true. But they’re also brands that form part of a...
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Sexsomnia is a Bedtime Boner-kill
Image via Sexomniacs fuck or dry-hump people in their sleep and have no memory of it when they wake up. Think that sounds cool? Well, perverts, it’s not. Sufferers of sexomnia can find themselves on...
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Some Swedes Made a Special Brand of Cerebral-Palsy Beer
About a year ago, in an attempt to stop people from being excessively nice to the handicapped, the Gothenburg Cooperative for Independent Living (GIL) made a physically challenged doll with cerebral...
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