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5 Bizarre Social Media Accounts Way Too Many People Follow
@hopeless is the 'Woe is me' Twitter account you've sought for the entirety of your miserable life.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- May 26, 2016
The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (5/24)
Excessive exposure to news media can burn out the circuits in your brain that allow you to give a shit.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- May 24, 2016
5 Ways The U.S. Is Awful (But Other Countries Are Way Worse)
Even though things seem to be taking a turn for the terrifying here in the United States, we still got it pretty good.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- May 19, 2016
The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (5/17)
The news media is primarily a delivery system for anxiety and impotent rage.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- May 17, 2016
The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (5/10)
The news can sound like a bar full of drunk strangers all loudly trying to tell you about the worst thing that ever happened to them.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- May 10, 2016
5 Creepy News Stories That Aren't Getting Enough Attention
Warning: These stories are super depressing.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- May 07, 2016
The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (5/3)
The news reads like an encyclopedia of worst-case scenarios.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- May 03, 2016
6 Dumb Myths People Constantly Believe About Immigration
Whether you have a 'live and let live' approach or you're convinced that every person with a foreign accent is destroying this country from within, you're probably operating under some false assumptions about the issue.
- By Chasen Shaw, Sahir Doshi
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- May 03, 2016
The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (4/26)
Watching the news can make you feel like your brain just worked a long shift at a diaper-cleaning service.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- April 26, 2016
6 Horrifying Realities Of Dealing With Sandy Hook 'Truthers'
How long do you think it takes conspiracy theorists to turn nasty after a national tragedy? A year? A month? Nope: Immediately.
- By Mark Hill, Lenny Pozner
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- April 26, 2016
I Fought The Taliban And They Came After Me And My Family
So there's this guy in Afghanistan who learned English from watching old Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, and he has quite the story to tell.
- By Robert Evans
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- April 20, 2016
The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (4/19)
Trying to stay current with the news is like getting a job manning Earth's complaint desk.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- April 19, 2016
6 Ways US Elections Look Insane To Non-US Citizens
Lengthy primaries, bitter arguments, colossal amounts of money ... that's just how democracy works, right? But some of those everyday oddities are completely baffling to outsiders.
- By Mark Hill, Pauli Poisuo
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- April 12, 2016
The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (4/12)
The news can make it look like the world is directed by Zack Snyder while going through a bitter divorce.
- By T. S. Obiech, Scott Laffey
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- April 12, 2016
6 Ugly Things I Learned Selling Guns To Drug Cartels
In 2006, the ATF started experimenting with letting cartels smuggle guns into Mexico. We talked to someone who was a part of this predictable disaster.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- April 12, 2016
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