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Atomic Deals IRAN ARE CURBING THEIR NUCLEAR ACTIVITY, BUT ARE STILL ALLOWED TO ENRICH URANIUM Weirdly, Israel aren't all that into the agreement (via) After four days of negotiations, Iran has agreed...
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I Went On a Hash-Making Holiday in Northern Morocco
A bowl containing beaten kif Until the Spanish occupation of northern Morocco in the 1920s, Chefchaouen was basically a closed city. In fact, when troops first arrived they found Jews in the area...
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Mike Tyson Is a Living Greek Tragedy
Image courtesy of Blue Rider Press Last week, I sat in a dark room in the New York Public Library to hear an author read from his new book. Although a screen on the side of the stage advertised an...
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Photographing Protest and Poverty in Athens
Enri Canaj is an Albanian photojournalist who migrated with his family to Athens when he was 11 years old. He’s grown up in and around adversity for most of his life and over the last couple years has...
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This Week in Racism: A TV Talent Show Made Racist Jokes at the Expense of a...
Welcome to another 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 and “RACIST” being the most racist. -There's no question that...
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The Canadian Forces Still Can't Buy Decent Combat Boots
Canadian soldiers with crappy boots. Image via WikiCommons While Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government are known for appearing in front of “Support Our Troops” signs and inflating...
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Argentines Need Dollars
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Buenaventuramariano Argentina’s economy is in trouble. Thanks to President Cristina Kirchner’s protectionist policies, trade with other countries is restricted, inflation...
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'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)
Algorave programmers writing musical code For most people, the only type of code involved in clubbing is a dress code. However, it turns out there's a whole musical subculture based around watching...
View ArticleWhen You’re Poor, Bad Decisions Are Rational
When You’re Poor, Bad Decisions Are Rational
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India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously
(Photo via) Indian nuclear scientists haven't had an easy time of it over the past decade. Not only has the scientific community been plagued by "suicides", unexplained deaths and sabotage, but those...
View ArticleKids Telling Dirty Jokes: Gigi
Kids Telling Dirty Jokes is our new series that features tiny comedians we found on Craigslist. This episode stars Gigi, an adorable straightlaced kid who has a bright future as a filthy comic....
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East Germany's Secret Police Used to Spy On Skateboarders
For whatever reason – be it Nestle recruiting Bob Burnquist to sell Aeros or MTV adopting Ryan Sheckler to sell advertising – the public perception of skateboarding seems to have changed over the last...
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The Worst Advertising, Guerrilla Marketing and Social Media Screwups of November
The annual UK Christmas advertising battle is bigger than Super Bowl competition here in the States. The shameless assault on consumers begins in November and doesn’t relent until December 26. It is...
View ArticleA Pregnant Woman Hit Her Stomach with a Hammer to Prove that Her Baby Was Tough
It's like a bad Chuck Norris joke come to life, but a 24-year-old mother in Birmingham was filmed hitting her pregnant belly with a hammer to prove that her unborn son was “hard." Heather Thorpe was...
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Bad Cop Blotter: Can Cameras Prevent the Police from Harassing Poor People?
Good job, citizen! (Photo via Flickr user OakleyOriginals) Last year, Alex Saleh, a convenience store owner in Miami Gardens, Florida, installed 15 security cameras in and around his shop. But not to...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Moscow - Part 1
In part one of Fresh Off the Boat - Moscow, Eddie takes his first shot of Russian vodka, chows down on some "communist dogs" with one of the few black Muscovites, and discusses the country's diverse...
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I Spent a Decade Working for Churches (and It Was the Worst)
Illustrations by Michael Shaeffer Before I started doing comedy and writing full time, I spent over a decade working for churches. Let me preface this by saying that I am not an angry atheist, or even...
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: The Real Walter White
When AMC's Breaking Bad premiered in 2008, one of Alabama's most successful meth cook was already knee deep in building one of the biggest meth empires the state would ever see. His name? Walter...
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