Ukraine
The Perils of Staging a Gay Pride March in Ukraine
Ukraine was the first post-Soviet country to legalize homosexuality, which is obviously commendable, but difficult to understand given recent history. Last year, Kiev's first-ever gay pride parade was called off half an hour before it was supposed to...
Central Asia Rally Was the Worst Journey of My Life
I'm standing on the side of a busy road in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, about 50 miles from the Georgia-Russia border, because our route on the inaugural Central Asia Rally (a 5,000-mile car rally from Budapest to Tajikistan) had to take a massive...
World Peace Update
How exactly is the planet preparing for the rapture? Some people are buying tons of non-perishable food and hiding in underground bunkers. Others, however, are far too busy rioting at wheelchair basketball matches, brawling with their fellow members of...
TorrentFreak Is Full of Shit, According to a Demonoid Admin
I've been covering the rise of Demonoid since 2009, so when TorrentFreak reported that they were forcibly kicked off the internet, possibly courtesy of the US government, I reached out to one of their admins. I was told that anything TorrentFreak...
World Peace Update
It's not gonna happen while Vitali Klitschko is walking the streets firing tear gas at cops.
Good Living
Andres Gonzalez lives in L.A. but spends a lot of time traveling to places way shittier to take pictures of such pristine composition you'd swear they were set pieces. He recently did a spell in the Ukrainian resort town of Truskavets putting together...
