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Texas Is About to Let College Students Carry Guns on Campus
Because letting coeds loose on college campuses with hidden firearms is the obvious way to stop assault.
Boobs, Skulls and Mickey Mouse: The Naive Art of Hardened Mexican Prisoners
Paños basically show that even the most hardened criminals make their mother a hand-drawn card on Mother's day.
How an Aryan Brotherhood Prison-Gang General Became a Snitch
The rules for prison gangs are clear, and "no snitching" is at the top of the list. So why did Lil' Wood turn on his former brothers?
Shoes, Books, Bullets and Backpacks – Every Found Object On the Mexican Border Represents a Tragedy
Photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo are turning human trash found on the US-Mexico border into instruments, giving a new identity to fragments of lost lives.
Learning to Read Corpses at the Texas State Body Farm
I talked with Dr. Daniel Wescott, director of the Texas State Forensic Anthropology Centre, about how bodies decompose in the wild and what our bones say about us.
Cry-Baby of the Week: Some Guys Allegedly Shot a Woman Because They Lost at Beer Pong
Also this week: A Muslim woman was ejected from the opera because she refused to remove her veil.
Hospital Regulations Are Forcing Women to Steal Their Own Placentas
Women are turning their placentas into little capsules and swallowing them after birth.
Mexican Drug Cartels Are Using Social Media Apps to Commit Virtual Kidnappings
Facebook and WhatsApp are being used to trick people into ponying up cash for safe relatives.
Cry-Baby of the Week: A Babysitter Allegedly Set Fire to a House Because She Didn't Like Some Kids
This week: A woman allegedly set fire to a house because she didn't like the kids she was babysitting and a got sent to prison for pirating a movie.
CHRISTEENE's 'Drag Terrorism' Is Creating a Cult Following
With a high-octane mixture of rap, rimming, and all your childhood nightmares.