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5 Types of Scandals That Are Always Disappointing
When I say 'scandal,' I'm not just talking about personal screw-ups, but all the sensational news that we read only because it sounds like something out of a suspense novel or movie, and are prepared to criticize in the same way as we would criticize a poor fictional storyline.
- By Christina H
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- June 28, 2011
3 Things Gay People Are Going to Hate About Gay Marriage
We aren't trying to sway people's thinking one way or the other. But seriously, let's stop to think things through.
- By Gladstone
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- June 23, 2011
How To Be a Person: A Guide to Life for the Recent Graduate
Greetings, graduating classes of 2011! Congratulations on accomplishing all you have accomplished to get here, and pre-congratulations on all the accomplishments you will surely accomplish in your accomplishful futures.
- By Lindy West
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- June 11, 2011
4 Reasons We Need to Start Making Fun of Terrorists
What we need to start doing with terrorists, like we do to any troll (and that's what they are, murderous trolls) is to start embarrassing them.
- By Christina H
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- May 24, 2011
A Letter to God Following the Cancellation of the Rapture
You screwed me. Not in a literal sense, though I suppose your omnipresence raises interesting questions about our shared levels of intimacy but that's outside the point.
- By Soren Bowie
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- May 23, 2011
Superman & Captain America ponder bin Laden's death
But not too much. Or too little.
- By Brendan McGinley
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- May 05, 2011
4 Recurring Myths We Apparently Really Want to Believe
There are a lot of pretty obviously fake stories the supposedly hard-boiled internet will just swallow as easily as your grandma will fall for that 'poor man from Nigeria that needs someone to help him get his money.' Stories like:
- By Christina H
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- May 03, 2011
St. Patrick vs Guy Celebrating St. Patrick's Day [CHART]
People give Christmas a lot of heat for forgetting what the holiday REALLY is all about. But when it comes to forgetting stuff, no holiday can match up with Saint Patrick's Day.
- By Matt Gallagher
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- March 17, 2011
Why You Should Wear Diapers to South By Southwest
The voices, the suggestions, the ideas- they were all blending together in one giant pile of razor-focused, totally sober comedy brilliance. I'd completely lost track of who was saying what or if I was just pulling some of the suggestions from my own nightmares.
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- March 11, 2011
The 5 Craziest Exploits of the World's Shadiest Politician
Silvio Berlusconi basically Scrooge McDuck but wears pants less often. He's spent nine years running Italy like a frat house on double-secret probation.
- By Luke McKinney
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- March 05, 2011
How to Evaluate a Stupid News Story [COMIC]
Remember when we cared about such ridiculous stuff ... last month?
- By Scott Meyer
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- February 08, 2011
5 Products that Will Be Exposed as B.S. in 2011
No one is willing to believe a product doesn't work until science discredits it, and science is already so busy with cancer and hoverboards.
- By Soren Bowie
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- January 24, 2011
Kidnapped by Drug Lords: My 3rd Worst Vacation in Mexico
Since 2006, an all-out drug war has swept across Mexico. Tourists won't visit Baja anymore, ex-pats won't search for a cultural identity in remote mountain villages, and an unprecedented number of college co-eds refuse to make bad decisions in border towns. Frankly, it's gotten a little out of hand.
- By Soren Bowie
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- January 10, 2011
6 Near Death Experiences Caught on Video
Holy shit why were you still holding the camera?
- By Robert Brockway
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- December 22, 2010
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