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Forget Gun Control, Let’s Ban the Senate

The failure of the gun control bill isn’t an example of cowardice on the part of senators who didn’t vote for it, or some fatal flaw on behalf of its sponsors. It’s just another case of the Senate being cripplingly, pathetically gridlocked and unable to do anything for anyone. Full story

What’s So Bad About Cockfighting Again?

Obviously, cockfighting is a barbaric blood sport. But is it that big of a problem compared to, say, chicken factory farms? Do we really want to send people to jail for it? And when did America start giving a shit about chickens? Full story

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Guns in the Sun

Weeks before the almost unfathomable mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro visited Florida to dive headfirst into its byzantine firearms laws and discover why his home state was the first in the nation to issue over one… Full story

Hey Justice Scalia, Are These Sex Acts OK?

Antonin Scalia told Princeton students that bans on murder were equivalent to bans on homosexuality and that laws that prohibited "immoral" activity were fine. So what other sex acts would he be OK with us banning? Would Scalia like to make it illegal to masturbate in front of a Full story

Obamacare Upheld: Everyone Start Yelling

Chief Justice Roberts's deciding vote is a guarantee that American politics will jam itself deeper into the sausage grinder of mutual hate and masturbatory anger. Full story