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Month: November 2009

  • Periodic Table of Cupcakes

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  • Red Cross: 10,000 African Albinos Hide From Hunters

    Since 2007, 44 albinos have been killed in Tanzania and 14 others have been slain in Burundi, sparking widespread fear among albinos in East Africa. At least 10,000 have been displaced or gone into hiding since the killings began, according to a report released this week by the International Federation for the Red Cross and […]

  • Most Prosperous Correlates with Least Religious Countries

    Correlation is not causation: [Researchers] combined 25 indicators of societal and economic stability — things like crime, suicide, drug use, incarceration, unemployment, income, abortion and public corruption — to score each country using what he calls the “successful societies scale.” He also scored countries on their degree of religiosity, as determined by such measures as […]

  • US Fundamentalist ‘Family’ Behind Ugandan Law to Execute HIV+ Men

    From Raw Story: Under current Ugandan law, homosexuality is a crime punishable by life in prison. The proposed law would not just condemn HIV positive gay men and “repeat offenders” to death, it would also jail for three years anyone who knows a gay man but refuses to report them to authorities. Further, anyone who […]

  • 'Biggest Loser' Winner Urinated Blood to Win

    NYTimes: When more than 40 former contestants from “The Biggest Loser” gather Wednesday for a reunion television special, the winner of the program’s first season, Ryan C. Benson, who lost 122 of his 330-pound starting weight, will be absent. Mr. Benson is now back above 300 pounds but he thinks he has been shunned by […]

  • Bill Hicks on Literacy

    From Reddit: “I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year, after the show I went to a Waffle House, I’m not proud of it, I was hungry. And I’m alone, I’m eating and I’m reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me, “Tch tch tch tch. Hey, what you readin’ for?” Is that like the […]

  • Elie Weisel vs Stephanie Meyer

    From Reddit: I was on the bus reading Twilight, by Elie Wiesel. A twenty-something girl sat next to me and peered over my shoulder. Her: Ooh, I love Twilight! Most guys don’t like it, though. Me: Different Twilight, I think. [I hold up the cover] Her: Oh, wow, Stephanie Meyer should sue her for copying! […]

  • Obama's ‘Black Jail’ in Afghanistan

    How’s that Nobel Peace Prize working out? An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The site, known to […]

  • Why David Cronenberg Should Direct 'Breaking Dawn'

    From CHUD: (spoilers) Edward is afraid to fuck his new bride… he’s super strong and she’s just a human… But Bella wears him down and Edward throws it in her – and knocks her the fuck out, leaving her badly bruised. Let’s go over that again: Edward fucks Bella into unconsciousness. Bella goes back to […]

  • Boarding School Student Receives Wet William | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

    Boarding School Student Receives Wet William | The Onion – America's Finest News Source DEERFIELD- MA–Deerfield Academy first-year Foster R. Poole III told reporters Monday that he had received yet another Wet William from a…