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No Planet B, with Robert Newman - The Gas Rigs and Food Banks Are Booming

Should the government be paying for corporations to drill for gas when people are struggling to eat?
Robert Newman
9.3.12
News

Walthamstow, Where Fascists Go to Die

Watching the English Defence League grunt their last in East London.
Simon Childs, Photos and Video: Henry Langston
9.3.12
New music

Azealia Banks: "1991" Video

Azealia goes all 90s high-fashion in her new video.
Kieran Yates
9.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Electronic Cigarettes Are Screwing with Your Lungs

Clearly anything that might possibly get people to stop smoking cigarettes is a good thing. I don't think anyone disputes this fact that doesn't work for Philip Morris. Though, I personally seem to come across electronic cigarettes -- oft touted as a...
Michael Byrne
9.2.12
The Mercy Rule

Welcome to College Football

College football is, in many ways, less a sport than a bumpy mass of public discourse and stomach-aches and public spending and almost religion. The talent and competition is not as consistent as the NFL, but there are moments of awesome, or at least...
David Roth
9.2.12
Stuff

Clyde’s Corner – Do You Suffer from Bitchassness

Bitchassness is a term coined by Diddy on 'Making the Band.' It means overall stank actions towards others through words, facial expressions, and/or song. Symptoms include thinking you’re better than those around you.
Clyde Singleton
9.2.12
Stuff

Bad Tattoos of Bab Tabbaneh

After several days of street fighting in Tripoli, things cooled off a bit about a week and a half ago. A ceasefire agreement was struck, the Sunni fighters from the Bab Tabbaneh neighborhood put away their assault rifles and RPGs. I decided it was a...
Jeff Neumann
9.2.12
Music

Set List - Vic Bondi Still Thinks it’s Fucking Midnight in America

On the heels of the RNC, we had Vic Bondi choose his favorite anti-republican anthems. He also threw in five songs he wrote as well, and why the fuck not? He’s in the best scene in American Hardcore and still hates Republicans.
Vic Bondi
9.2.12
Sports

I Talked to Two Red Sox Fans at Fenway Park

Bostonians care more about their enemies losing than actually accomplishing anything themselves. No one sums up this better than the Fenway Faithful. The only constant remaining is the negativity on Yawkey Way flowing like the spoiled Schilling...
John Liam Policastro
9.2.12
Comics!

Milestones

Here they come! The bride and groom!
Ted May
9.2.12
Motherboard Blog

A New Reason To Be Irrationally Terrified of Solar Storms

It's common lore in the year 2012 that solar storms have the capability of knocking out our electrical grids and, you know, paralyzing society long enough for us to starve and/or get eaten by wolves and/or devour itself. Which isn't totally untrue...
Michael Byrne
9.1.12
Features

Why Rap Music Sucks When You Have a Broken Heart

Taking someone's woman has been seen as a display of power ever since Aphrodite decided to slut it up with all the Greek gods after Hephaestus wifed her. There was a time when black men were lynched over the mere accusation that they slept with white wome
Ernest Baker
Illustrations: Sam Taylor
9.1.12
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