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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (10/27)
Forget Kim Kardashian's bum. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is breaking the internet.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (10/20)
The news is like a very confusing story written by a novelist who was trying to treat his chronic paranoia with cocaine.
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- By Ted E.
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The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (10/13)
Trying to stay on top of the news is like trying to defeat a swarm of killer bees by eating them.
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- By Ted E.
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6 Idiotic Stories About Aliens The News Keeps Regurgitating
In the latest installment of our never-ending quest to keep you safe from the Internet's tidal waves of bullshit, we'd like to focus on alien life.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 True Stories That Prove Local News Is Creepy As Hell
Pick up any small-town newspaper and you'll see a special section reserved for stuff straight out of a bad episode of 'X-Files.'
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- By Michael Hossey
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (10/6)
The news is like a 'Walking Dead' spinoff where they've replaced the zombies with assholes.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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5 Hollywood Stories You See Everywhere (That Are Always BS)
All of us have fallen for stories like these before but there are some particularly egregious types of B.S. that shouldn't fly anymore
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- By Jason Iannone
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6 Old-School Journalists Who Make Tabloids Look Tasteful
We tend to forget that even before the Web came along, the fourth estate regularly put up with the screwnut shenanigans of people like these folks.
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- By Adam Wears
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The 12 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (9/29)
The news is kind of like a creepy cult leader who makes a convincing case that the world is going to end next month, until you realize he's been saying the same thing for 40 years.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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18 Subtle Tricks The Media Uses To Control Your Brain
Do you think the media you follow or the beliefs you hold are completely yours? Uninfluenced even? Well, spoiler alert, you're wrong.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (9/22)
The news is like a shrill fire alarm that screams 24 hours a day, because really there's always something on fire somewhere.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (9/15)
Sometimes watching the news can feel like you're seeing an anti-Earth propaganda film produced by aliens.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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21 Amazing Times Nobodies Saved The Hell Out Of The Day
Turns out we don't need to give Hollywood our hard-earned cash money to watch people do heroic things.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (9/8)
The news media's primary motivation these days is clearly to drum up sales of emergency apocalypse supplies.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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