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A Divided Egypt Battles with Fireworks, Rocks, and Guns
The young man's face was covered in a flag made to serve as a bloody, makeshift shroud. His unconscious head bounced with the jog of the men who carried him. He was among hundreds hurt in Cairo on...
View ArticleVideo From Friday's Clashes on the October 6 Bridge in Cairo
For three hours on Friday night, pro-Morsi demonstrators and anti-government protesters waged a pitched battle on the Oct. 6th Bridge in central Cairo. Both sides threw rocks, shot fireworks, and and...
View ArticleIn Nasr City, a Demonstration Ends in Bloodshed
Near the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City in Cairo, hundreds of supporters of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party voiced their disbelief that the...
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Why Does Tim McGraw Look Like a Leather Queen?
Photo by Flickr user Sunny_57. Like most Americans, I usually spend the Fourth of July on a roof drinking vodka and shooting fireworks aimlessly into the night. However, since I recently quit...
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A Plane Crashed While Trying to Land at SFO Airport
Photo via Twitter User David Eun At 11:27 this morning, Asiana Airlines flight 214 coming out of Seoul, South Korea, crashed during its landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)....
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This Week in Racism: Johnny Depp Plays Native American in Movie, World Shrugs
Photo by Flickr User ATempltetonPhoto Welcome to a special post-Fourth of July 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...
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The Least Aggressive Fight in New York City
Photo by Flickr user Geezaweezer. I recently got into what has to be the least aggressive fight in the history of New York City. Anyone who lives in NYC will tell you that getting into a confrontation...
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Into the Weird — Alcoholism and American Flag Parachutes
The author in her second week of sobriety. My MRI results are in. I don’t appear to have epilepsy. Add it to the list of labels that have vomited on me from the mouths of others, some true, others...
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Traveling to Mexico for a Tooth Implant and Tacos
The author on her journey to buy a cheap tooth. Dental tourism is one of the most cheapskate aspects of neocolonialism. Every year, thousands of cheap Americans travel to Mexico to buy new teeth. I am...
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Weediquette: Hate in an Elevator
Photo by Flickr User lrargerich While some poor souls are forced to smoke to escape the drudgery of their jobs, I’m lucky to work in a creative field where I can smoke weed while I work. Nothing...
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Celebrity Baby Smack Down: North West Vs. the Royal Baby
Image by Chris Johns. When I discovered both Kim Kardashian and Kate Middleton would give birth this summer, I became excited about the prospect of a baby smack down. A few years ago, pitting two...
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This Lady Thinks the Center of the Earth Is Hollow and Full of Alien Humanoids
Dear Earth, are there aliens in the centre of you? via Flickr Who doesn’t love a good old fashioned conspiracy theory? I’m not talking about boring shit like shadow governments or Bigfoot. I’m talking...
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Comics: The Best Walk
@melgillman More comics: Stank 2 Nick Gazin’s Comic Book Love-In #91 The Collectors
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Taji's Mahal: Postmodernism and Sumo Wrestlers: An Interview with Joseph McElroy
For this week’s Mahal, I spoke to Joseph McElroy, my friend’s dad and one of postmodernism’s major players. His 1960s debut novel, A Smuggler’s Bible, is something of a modern classic, and at age 82,...
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'Kama Sutra' Spells You Can Use
Like many works of ancient literature, The Kama Sutra can be read a few different ways: you can view it as a window into the mind-set and customs of a long-departed culture, or you can take it to be a...
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Lou Reed Reviews Things Other Than 'Yeezus'
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Bitches Be Writing: A History
1775–1817: Jane Austen The first important modern writer with a vagina emerged out of nowhere, with an exaggerated, hyperbolic diary she called Pride and Prejudice, written when she was just 21 years...
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Life Advice from One of the World's Most Eloquent Pimps
Mickey Royal. All photos courtesy of Mickey Royal When I was 18, I liked to trawl through Facebook to try and find the strangest people I could. I guess it was my slightly creepy way of trying to...
View ArticleFringes: Portrait of a Russian Oligarch
After the collapse of Communism in Russia, as state assets were divvied up and privatized, a few individuals stepped in to take the reins of this entrepreneurial experiment. Rewarded with massive...
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The Man Flying His Plane to Every Country That Doesn't Recognize Kosovo's...
James Berisha in his plane. All photos courtesy of James Berisha James Berisha wants the world to accept Kosovo's independence. So, instead of circulating a bunch of pointless "Facebook awareness"...
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