DOGMAGEDDON
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Obama Governs Like Bush on Reproductive Rights
The Obama administration overturned the FDA's recommendation for women of all ages to have access to Plan B and restricted Plan B only to those at least 15 years of age with a photo ID. This is the kind of move we've come to expect from the red-staters, but not our progressive president. Full story
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Jason Collins Shook a Few Bigots Out of the Homophobe Tree
Jason Collins made his big “I'm gay” announcement last week. Big news like this can't help but be met with a vocal minority of the religious-minded seeing this as a “test” from the man upstairs, and the only way they'll pass is by letting their feelings be known to a national aud… Full story
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"Coexist" Bumper Stickers Are Actually Intolerant
On the surface, it seems like a sentiment I should agree with: “Can't we all put aside our religious differences and get along?” But what happens when you put anything on a bumper sticker is that you remove the suggestive tone and make it a command: “Get along, or else.” Full story
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Please Stop Believing
I like to think of myself as an equal-opportunity offender, that all religions are just different sides of the same million-or-so-headed coin to me. The specifics of what ancient person has what magic power according to whatever secret text is simply a distraction. Dogma, in gene… Full story
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Zealots with Nukes
While most of the recent “crazy person with nukes” talk has been focused on the husky little crackpot in North Korea, there's another bit of backyard-underground-bunker-scare inducement that deserves some notice: the nuclear proliferation going on in Iran. Full story
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Praise Kubrick Christ
The new movie 'Room 237,' which explores all the crackpot theories on what Kubrick's 'The Shining' is about, sums up just about everything in religion. In it, nuts search for a hidden message that Kubrick is trying to deliver to a small group of enlightened people. And if other p… Full story
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The Bible Is Nothing but Fan Fiction for Jesus
What doesn't make sense is that some of the accounts of Jesus are considered truth, while others are deemed apocryphal. The original gospels were written down centuries after the events described, so it's not as if one has true boots-on-the-ground reporting and the rest are just Full story
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Young People Still Suck
It isn't hard to see which way the winds are blowing regarding gay marriage. All you need is a second-grade reading comprehension and a very simple understanding of statistics. Full story
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Meet Frank
Rejoice! The new pope is a man of the people! He famously cooks his own meals, rides the bus to work, and lives in a single apartment rather than in the palace befitting an archbishop. These are all good things! But there's also this... Full story
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Religiosity Is Killing in Mississippi
Fifty-eight percent of Mississippi's residents describe themselves as “very religious.” The state also lays claim to both the highest teen birthrate and the highest HIV rate in young adults. In this experience we call life, there are plenty of coincidences. This is not one of the… Full story
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Religion Can Ruin Your Heroes
The problem with Jim Miller's comment about gays never being accepted in NFL locker rooms pisses me off not just because it's an asinine way of thinking, but because he's ruined any goodwill I felt about the 2001 Chicago Bears. Full story
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Whoever Wins, We Lose
Being deep enough into Catholicism to the point where you can be considered to lead the church means not being too forward-thinking. In fact, let's take a gander at the top five candidates—according to, of course, a betting website—and see what they might bring to the table. Full story
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Papal Infallibility Is a Problem for the Catholic Church
Among the many beliefs that members of the Catholic Church hold is “papal infallibility.” Benedict's resignation is the first instance the Church has had to deal with two people holding infallibility at the same time, which is troublesome. Full story
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Art Imitates Life, Then Gets You Killed by Fanatics
There is a scene in 'Zero Dark Thirty' that is pretty unspectacular, one that in a vacuum would be forgotten as soon as the end credits roll. But there's a good chance this little scene will lead to people getting killed. Full story
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The Ravens Are God's Favorites
Fifty-three percent of Americans think God rewards athletes who believe in Him with good health and great success. In other words, yesterday, God chose his most-loved, and by default his most-hated, Harbaugh brother. Full story
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A Catholic Hospital Is Arguing That a Fetus Is Not a Person
Legally, the argument is sound. Colorado, the state, does not define a fetus as a person. But what kind of blatant hypocrisy would motivate a Catholic hospital to argue in court that only individuals born alive are people? Full story
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Adios, Choice
Remove the clinics, put insurmountable obstacles in the way, and Roe v. Wade will soon hold as much power as the now-hilariously-shortsighted Third Amendment. The fight for abortion is almost over, and pro-lifers are nearly the victors. Full story
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Too Much Jesus in the Locker Room
The religiosity of sports is ignored when we question why a gay athlete playing one of the major American sports has yet to come out of the closet. We should be turning our attention to the clubhouse preachers leading teams in pre-game prayers. Full story
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Subtle Forces
The crazies of Hinduism aren't as in-your-face as, say, a suicide bomber or a Baptist minister calling for the end of Planned Parenthood. But they can certainly hold their own when it comes to mistreating women. Full story
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Bah Humbug!
The actual holiday of Christmas isn't really, and never has been, a celebration specifically about Christ's birth. People have been celebrating the middle-of-winter holiday—with gifts and massive consumption of booze—way before Jesus. Full story
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The Great Paradox
The biggest hypocrisy is the mind-fuck of fighting to save the lives of unborn children, while defending the right to possess a device thats sole purpose is taking the life of someone who was once an unborn child. Full story
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History Lesson
Last Wednesday was the 79th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition in the US. Thanks a lot, Bible, for inspiring the temperance movement that nearly broke this nation through class divisions and gave birth to the modern Mafia. Full story
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The Half-Man's Dilemma
Consider the plight of Angus T. Jones of 'Two and a Half Men.' A true God-fearing individual could not knowingly produce such scum and lead a show that Satan is so deeply embedded in. He had to take a stand. Full story
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Balls and Chains
When you believe you're rooting for the “right team,” whether that's due to you being born in a certain sports franchise's media market or because your parents believe in a specific invisible higher power, you're allowed to trade away facts for unprovable opinion. Full story
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The Collection Plate
Catholics, keep in mind the next time the collection plate get passed, your money may not go towards buying the clergy new robes or building a soup kitchen. It could go towards anti-gay marriage bills. Full story
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The Longest Horoscope Ever
The Bible has been able to spoil so much of human history because it is just is so fucking vague. Want to sleep with your little cousin? Surely there's something in there that'd give you the thumbs up. Full story
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The Case for Voting
It's so easy to feel jaded at the American political system. The problem is, not everyone feels that way. Most religious believers think they can make a change. And, really, they're right, because no one's playing defense. Full story
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Happy JesusWeen, Everyone!
Imagine kids with close-cropped hair and conservative clothes coming to the door, the homeowners offering candy, and the children pushing that aside and instead offering up a stack of Bibles. Full story
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Watch This Hero
When you first start listening to Preacher Phil Snider's speech on gay marriage, you'll probably want to duck out because he sounds like a hateful lunatic who thinks that gays and pedophiles are cut from the same cloth. But stick it out, it's worth it. Full story
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God Vs. The Ladies
The original scriptures—the template which has led to today's incarnation of religion—were written by men during a time when women were property and mystical beasts who occasionally farted out children. This factoid explains the troubling inherent sexism of organized religions… Full story
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A God-Awful Small Affair
One of these days, we're going to find evidence of life on another planet. When that happens, how will the world's religions react? Will they rethink the theory that humans are “God's chosen people”? Or will they try to discredit the discovery as evidence of a Satan-led conspirac… Full story
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Take Jesus's Wife, Please
The tale of finding the ancient papyrus at Smithsonian is window-dressing to the actual narrative embedded throughout: the sexism of Christianity. Full story
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Powder Keg
Was the film's trailer an inciting event, a match to throw on the bundle of twigs? Sure. Maybe. But those twigs were just sticks of dynamite painted brown (inherent xenophobia that strong religious beliefs create). Any little spark would've done it. Full story
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Party Time!
For progressives, there was plenty to love about the Democratic National Convention. There was gay rightsing, shaming Republicans for failure with women, and Bill Clinton flamethrowing statistics like he was at Burning Man. But there was one troubling bit. Full story
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Religious Medical Folks
You'd think that "pro-life" would actually mean just that, but sometimes cell clusters win out over the actual living, breathing human that created them. Makes sense, seeing as they have yet to develop the brain function to question the legitimacy or call out the hypocrisy of it Full story
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Cold Politics
Russia really pushed for their new trend against tolerance last week, racking up offenses against freedom of expression, feminism, and gay rights. Allow me to parse what all this bullshit means. Full story
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Personal Protest
There's been no area more affected by religion and religious ideas throughout history than that of the genitals. Not only are the men of God obsessed with secular privates, they've historically also been extremely interested in the protection of their own. Full story
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No Joke
Al Qaeda sympathizers killed a comedian for making hilarious jokes about God. Religion has such a touchy sense of humor. Full story
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A Hero in Someone's Mind
By using the ol' “Bible/Koran/Torah/whatever-the-fuck says so” get-away-with-anything card, people have justified doing some terrible shit; this column's basically a weekly list of that kind of activity. Full story
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Abortionland
Inadvertent Christian Situationism, death, bloody Mary, crab Jesus, hate sandwiches, and more, courtesy of religion. Full story
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The Gods Walking Earth's Sidelines
The halo removal service pays a visit to the football field. Full story
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Heroic Chances
That golden opportunity to completely take down the Church of Scientology has passed. For now. Full story
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Natural Disasters
The Evangelical Vatican is on fire. Does God want to evict the religious assholes? Full story
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Vagina Vagina Vagina
Decorum violation by disgusting women who carry around one of those gross hoo-has in her genital region will not be tolerated. Full story
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Yogi Wants to Bang
Grisly deaths aside, how about these yogis and their unimpeachable sex pedestals? Full story
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A Rare Appearance
Man, you had a shit week, Israel. Full story
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Gotta Serve Nobody
Doesn't matter if you found Jesus if your music's still shit, and more on religion's annihilating ways. Full story
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Throw the Gays in a Corral
Using extinction to treat the gay outbreak and more in this week's roundup of how religion ruins everything. Full story
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God Hates Your Team
If God's so into sports, granting athletes with all their talent, what's His problem with Seattle? Full story
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One or the Other
Ken Hutcherson is a douchebag, more in the current Jersey Shore bar-scene vernacular than the classic drugstore definition. Full story
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Who Is Watching?
What happens when the fear that a bearded man in the sky is watching your every move disappears? Full story
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Math Is Not Right
If you get this equation wrong, you probably love Jesus. Full story
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Horror Screenplay
It involves breaking and entering, cannibalism, name-calling, and lesbian witch-hunting—all in the name of God. Full story
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Froth
It is a mistake to confuse the high volume of a single crazy person for a chorus from the masses. Full story
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Careful Construction
Born-again dickhead Kirk Cameron is reason enough to hate religion this week. Full story
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Come On Out
It's not as scary as staying in the church. Full story
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What You Pay For
It's all part of my extremely small-range, highly focused, and not super difficult—self-immolation, it is not—one-man protest. Full story
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Inform a Rep About the Vag
It's time to take it to the next level. Full story
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Religion Hearts Newborn Penii
It's time to stop giving babies blow jobs, you guys. Full story
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A Distant Star in the Darkness
People slowly are losing their religion. There's a poll that proves it. Full story
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Burning for You
Why not incite religious-fueled rage just for the hell of it? Lots of reasons. Full story
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Abortion a-Go-Go
Religion, you did some really obviously terrible and despicable things this week. Full story
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Your Pocket Guide to Morality
As a service to all, I've decided to make this easy-to-follow pocket flowchart. Full story
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God (Still) Hates Boobs
Religion almost wrecked the most important thing in life: boobs. Score one for humanity! But there's still plenty that got ruined in the name of God. Full story
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Going Viral
Science has proven you lose one IQ point for every 10 comments you read. Full story
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Nothing for Money
No one's quite sure how much Harold Camping made off of last year's end of the world prophecy, but everyone agrees it was a shit-ton. Full story
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Tebow 3:16
Here's what athletes (and other religious folk) ruined for us lately. Full story
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Welcome to 2012 A.D.
What did religion wreck this week? Full story
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Rob Ford, the World's Greatest Mayor, Smokes Crack
What's the big deal? Everyone finds themselves in this position once in a while.
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Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?
A rundown of some of America's incarceration investors.
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Dodging Water Cannons and Sound Bombs at Israel's Catastrophe Day
The Israeli police force still isn't warming to Palestinian protesters.
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Tubesteak: How to Hone Your Gaydar to Perfection
First and foremost, let me say that butch gay guys are the hottest men on Earth. Period.
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Kai, the Hatchet-Wielding Hobo Wanted for Murder, Says He Was Drugged and Raped
A truly bizarre and tragic twist to the "homefree" tale.
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Horrible People Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Unlicensed orphanages are stealing donations and trafficking children.
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Bob Odenkirk’s Page: VICE Endorses Jipson Talmadge
Jipson Talmadge is VICE's choice for the next mayor of New York City.
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Austerity's Drug of Choice
Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is meth mixed with filler ingredients like battery acid.
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“Fitch the Homeless” Is Backwards-Ass Activism
"Fitch the Homeless" is a great idea, until you think about it.
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VICE News: This Is What Winning Looks Like
A documentary about the ineptitude and corruption of the Afghan security forces.
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Hearing from Three Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Who've Been on Hunger Strike for 100 Days
What life is like inside the prison camp.
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The People VS Flatbush Zombies
It's Flatbush Zombies turn to wade through comments.
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Noel Rodo-Vankeulen's Photography Is from Another Dimension
It appears that some of these shots were taken on the moon.
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Thought and Memory
Back in 2008, when my first novel came out, my publisher sent me on a West Coast tour.
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Ethical Hackers Talk Internet Terrorism, Anonymous, and DDoS Attacks
So I spoke to a couple of guys who helped me understand it a little better.
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Rev. James Logsdon Doesn’t Know Art, but He Knows He Likes Racist Art
If You’re a Big Racist, This is Your Kind of Art
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Rachel Wotton Screws Disabled People Literally, but not Figuratively
Sex Workers and the Disabled Have a Lot in Common
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Love Marcus: Big Dogs and Hot Tubs
Marcus Picks Up Right Where he Left off: Detroit.
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We Went to Wee Waa
The local paper read 'Dog Jumping and Daft Punk'.
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I Went Snooping Around Nicolas Cage's House
And it was kind of upsetting.
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Weirdo Club
Things get weird when somebody breaks out the unholy fermented ichor.
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Rat Tail: The Debut Single
Here is an excerpt from the liner notes of Rat Tail’s only album.
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Some Photographs from the All About Pets Show
Canada's largest pet convention has a lot to see, apparently.
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Meet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
They realise that Nazis generally don't like Asian people, but apparently that doesn't matter.
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A Few Impressions: 'Gatsby'
In the end, Luhrmann made it work, and that’s all that matters.
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The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The KKK protested renaming a park that memorialized one of the most infamous racists ever.
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VICE News: This Is What Winning Looks Like
A documentary about the ineptitude and corruption of the Afghan security forces.
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VICE on HBO Extended: Egypt on the Brink - Women Under Assault
VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi meets with some local activists around Tahrir Square.
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The Creators Project: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Collaborators: Paul Williams
As well as winning an Academy Award he was also nominated a number of times, most notably for his song from 'The Muppet Movie,' "The Rainbow Connection."
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Art Talk: Matt Mignanelli
A chat about his work, life, and strong American work ethic.
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VICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor
A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor.
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Truckers in the Wild: Philadelphia
The brothers look for some uniquely Philly customs that have shaped the city’s character.
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Bob Odenkirk’s Page: VICE Endorses Jipson Talmadge
Jipson Talmadge is VICE's choice for the next mayor of New York City.
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Munchies: Hatos Bar
We all got suitably wasted before cooking up some barbecue.
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Late Drone Age Civilization: The Fossil Record
Everyone wishes it would all be something else, but exactly what, nobody can say.
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The Noisey Guide to French Rap
In America, we don’t pay attention to French rap.
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If Julia Gillard is Such an Atheist, Where’s All the Gay Marriage?
Australians are Proud of Separating Church and State, but Don't go Far Enough.
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Cry-Baby of the Week
This week: a guy who destroyed his neighborhood versus some guys who arrested a kid for mooning.
The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The Dark Specter of History in Memphis 
Hung Like a Gastropod
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator 
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa Is Nasty Shit 
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and Corruption in Afghanistan 
The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Pack on Those Pounds, Ladies 
Jerks Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Get It Together, People 
