Chairman Mao rolls in his grave
150 computer factory workers had to be talked down from a “suicide jump” in protest of lousy working conditions at the infamous Foxconn. This would not have made the news…
Sabina Becker
Stupid Sex Tricks: Where NOT to get a tattoo, and why
Um, if you’re a dude…how about your genitalia? As for why, read on: You’d think somebody repeatedly sticking a needle in your penis would be a little off-putting, but the…
Music for a Sunday: Till the fearless come…
Still relevant, and still cool. How about that?
Wankers of the Week: Wronging in the New Year
Crappy New Year, everyone! How’s yer hangover? All gone? Slept it off, you say? Good. Because, as we all know, wank never sleeps. Especially if it’s got a buzz on;…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito’s back, Cristina’s on the mend
Good news from Venezuela… The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, will return on Sunday with his well-known TV program, Aló Presidente, which has been on hiatus for seven months. This will…
Your bathroom has a tooth fairy problem
What was Harpo really saying? Whatever it was, this is WAY more entertaining.
Stupid Sex Tricks: Because stupid hat tricks are so passé
Hockey normally gets very short shrift here, unless I’m wank-listing Don Fucking Cherry for his latest rockum-sockum case of Teh Stoopid. But this time, the tacky thing at the rink…
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
A documentary made a few years back, but still broadly relevant today. It’s all about how corporate lobbyists control government, and how corporate interests control media, and the dangers to…
Cops Behaving Badly: Fuck the Police (Before They Fuck You)
(Logo from the infamous Dave Rabbit sweatshirt, a limited-edition Vietnam War pirate radio joke product. Back story, in case you’re interested, here.) Pardon my Anglo-Saxon and the explicit artwork, but…
Big news in Bogotá
Well, who’d of thunk it? Looks like the capital of Colombia has a cool new (progressive) mayor! Gustavo Petro was sworn in as mayor of Bogotá and presented his plan…
Music for a Sunday: I will be with you again…
Back before the Berlin Wall fell, there used to be this really cool band from Ireland. Whatever happened to them?
Wankers of the Week: Year-End Yahoos
Crappy weekend everyone! It’s New Year’s Eve, but even so, the wanks just keep on coming. Guess some people just gotta see the old year out with a bang…and a…
Some call them drones…
…others call them Job Creators: America’s growing drone operations rely on hundreds of civilian contractors, including some, such as the SAIC employee, who work in the so-called kill chain before…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: The kids are all right…or should I say LEFT?
Who says so? No less an authority than The Pew: Young people — the collegiate and post-college crowd, who have served as the most visible face of the Occupy Wall…
Cops Behaving Badly: Death by pepper spray
Florida police bound, gagged and pepper-sprayed a mentally ill man until he died. Interestingly, this was reported by FUX Snooze, in a non-snoozing mode for a change. Let’s hear Megyn…
The Perfect Vagina
The perfect vagina from heather leach on Vimeo. A hard-hitting documentary on an extreme form of plastic surgery and the physical and emotional damage it is doing to women and…
Cristina gets cancer, Chavecito gets topical, Jezebel gets Teh Stoopid
Dear lord, what is it with progressive LatAm leaders getting the fucking C-word? First it was Dilma, then Lugo, then Chavecito, then Lula, and now Cristina? President Cristina Kirchner is…
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
I happened by chance on this sad item today in the Huffington Post. A familiar picture caught my eye: It only took me a moment to realize where I’d seen…