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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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494 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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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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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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The 12 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (9/1)
Judging from the news, the world is like a disaster movie, only without the last few scenes where everybody escapes.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (8/25)
Staying on top of the news is like trying to follow the plot of Kevin Spacey's serial killer notebooks in 'Se7en.'
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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6 People Who Responded To Tragedies In The Most Soulless Way
When disaster strikes, there are plenty of ways you can respond without being a massive tool. But that's not what these heroes decided to do.
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- By Jason Iannone
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (8/18)
Staying on top of current events is like trying to drink from a fire hose, only instead of a hydrant it's hooked up to a sewer line.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (8/11)
The news reads like a very long PSA on why civilization was a bad idea.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (8/4)
Staying on top of current events is like trying to keep an accurate count of the wolves who are currently chasing you through the woods.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (7/28)
Judging from the news, the cabal of powerful people who secretly run the world have all dropped a shitload of acid recently.
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- By Ted E., T. S. Obiech
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5 Incredibly Positive Trends No One's Talking About
If you take a moment to stop actively focusing on the negative, it's easy to see that, despite our collective insistence to the contrary, the world as a whole is chugging along towards a better place.
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- By Cornelius Heyer, Ivan Farkas
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (7/21)
The world makes about as much sense as the plot of your average late-night Cinemax porno, one watched with the sound off so your Mom doesn't hear.
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- By T. S. Obiech
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