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The Recent Unpleasantness: Reality Quiz
"This might be a good time for Republicans to redouble their commitment to the reality-based community." - David Brooks, NY Times, 11/7/12 ------------------------------------ Greetings! In light of...
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Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waragi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine,...
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The Greek Police Got to Use Their Shiny New Water Cannon
Yet again, the familiar sight of Greeks fighting Greeks hit the news on Wednesday as protesters clashed with riot police in Athens. One hundred thousand protesters crammed into Syntagma Square on the...
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Real-life Stories: Vacations Are Better Than Reality
If you're lucky enough to be jetting off abroad any time soon, fuck you. We'll be stuck here intermittently crying and trying to drink ourselves through the torturous misery that is the winter. For...
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We Interviewed Drunk Bastard from Two Man Advantage About the NHL's Contract...
Fifty-five days ago the contract between NHL team owners and the NHL Players Association expired without a new agreement in place, and as of right now they still haven't pulled one together. Some...
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Devil's Advocate: In Defense of Silvio Berlusconi
Hello readers, my name is Giovanni Di Stefano. That's me up there, with Roger Moore! I am a "lawyer" known as the Devil's Advocate, because I have defended the indefensible, from Baghdad to...
View ArticleGirl News: Everything Is the Best
Not “the best stuff about being a girl” or whatever because ewwwwwissaboring! And doesn’t that depend on basically everything? And probably that would amount to the list equivalent of a sad pile of...
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Can Anyone Coach the Lakers?
In a move that won't surprise any of the thousands of people who devote their lives to interpreting Kobe Bryant's body language, the Los Angeles Lakers just fired their head coach Mike Brown a mere...
View ArticleWeediquette – Learn to Scrape a Bowl for the Apocalypse
This week, after years of speculation about what the American people want, need, and deserve, a black candidate got a second chance. But more importantly, a green candidate got a second chance, and...
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No One Was Sober at a Monday Afternoon Outdoor Aerosmith Show
Earlier this week, quintessential roofer-rock band Aerosmith gave a free concert in Boston in front of the apartment building where the band first lived and jammed in together. New England Patriots...
View ArticleScrewdrivers and Slingshots: Inside Burma’s Erupting Sectarian Strife
Burma’s transition from a military-controlled state to a fledgling democracy has been touted by the Obama administration as one of its most impressive first-term foreign policy achievements. So much...
View ArticleTaji’s Mahal – Ask for the Wet Massage
For this week's Mahal, Jade and I decided to take a trip to King Spa to escape the many threats of global warming. We waited for a sketchy shuttle to bring us to way-the-fuck-out-there, New Jersey...
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On the Road with Obama and Romney - Reelection
In this installment of VICE’s 2012 campaign series, writer James Pogue and photographer Liz Gorman split ways. James takes in his native Ohio on election night, and Liz photographs the president’s...
View ArticleKnapsack Bartender: Keeping Up With The Cazans
In this episode, Jordan heads to a tiny Romanian village in the foothills of the Carpathians to hang out with the Cazan family, master brewers of a fiery tequila-like drink called palinka. There he...
View ArticleLiving Porn: When a Dude Wants You to Sit There and Do Nothing While He Jerks...
“What do you want me to do?” I asked. We were laying across my bed naked, about a foot apart, both of us propped up on one elbow and facing each other. He was furiously jerking himself off. “Just sit...
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The Jerkoff Diaries: Part III
Christopher Lucas continues his journey to follow 50 Cent’s “stop masturbating” plan. Monday morning I woke up horny as hell. A step backwards, if you will. A loop of the previous night's...
View ArticleMelissa Stetten's Bratwalk: I'm Drowning in Bird Shit and Self-Pity
Hi. I’m Melissa. I’ll be writing a weekly column for VICE until I run out of things to say or you stop reading, whichever comes first. It’s like the car warranty where you’re covered up to 50,000...
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Understanding China's Leadership Transition
While the US licks its psychic wounds after an ugly 2012 election and settles back into its usual partisan squabbling (Oh, Hi John Boehner), the real most important country in the world has begun a...
View ArticleWhat Drones See
Never mind the cheeky play on everyone’s go-to food porn image sharing service. Dronestagram (@dronestagram) is laying bare something much, much more cold and unappetizing, something that the shadowy...
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