The Teetering on the Brink Issue
Bud Diamonds
The first thing you notice about Sierra Leone is that everything swarms you: the heat, the beggars, the officials (who are basically beggars with titles), and the particulate filth that comes in a country where they dispose of their trash by burning it...
La Frontera
I’m at the busiest land border in the world. I get across quickly because I’m headed in the right direction, which is to say the wrong direction. I’m going where no one wants to stay.
Interview with a Ketamine Chemist
There are medicinal chemists who work to synthesize drugs they hope will produce therapeutic effects in their users.
Making Me Feel Like I’ve Never Been Born
Like most people, I have deep-seated psychological problems that make me depressed, misanthropic, noncommittal, and filled with self-loathing. My normal therapeutic regimen involves lots of alcohol and emotional suppression.
The Cute Show Page!
This month’s dose of adorability features Epicly Later’d creator Patrick O’Dell and his tongue-waggy old-man dog, Edgar. It also guest-stars Mimi, Patrick’s ex-girlfriend’s little minidog. Edgar and Mimi still like to hang out.
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Larry Arnold is the author of "Ablaze! The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion<" and the world's foremost expert on exploding people.
The Lady Mules of Morocco
By six each morning, Malika and thousands of other lady smugglers known as porteadoras gather at the foot of an immense metal corral that connects Morocco and Spain.
Animals Vs. Us
Not content with destroying half the world via floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, Katy Perry, snowstorms, riots, and halfwits who won't stop talking about 2012, God is making all the animals go totally crazy.