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Obamacare Won't Kill Your Grandpa: If SCOTUS Throws Out Health Reform, Blame the Internet
In an apparent effort to prove to the world that she still exists, Sarah Palin posted an inflammatory update to her inflammatory 2009 ‘death panels’ Facebook screed. She stands by her initial assessment, evidently, and still believes that if Obamacare...
Brian Merchant
6.27.12
World Peace Update

World Peace Update
Have those devoted to religion and football learnt how to deal with disappointment yet?
Henry Langston
6.27.12
Film

Ments Is An Audiovisual Journey Into Alien Aquatics
Strange underwater forms come rippling to life.
Kevin Holmes
6.27.12
NSFW

Indifferent Cats in Porn
Photos of cats ignoring the sex going on around them.
Indifferent Cats In Amateur Porn
6.27.12
Guide to Dubai

Ghost Lake: The Aral Sea Disaster
Uzbekistan’s former Aral Sea region is a toxically charged sand pit that once housed one of the world’s largest lakes. Once covering 26,300 square miles, the giant lake is now split into four pitiful puddles of what it used to be, having dramatically...
Ben Makuch
6.27.12
VICE News

Renegade Jewish Settlers
Meet Simcha and Yosef, a pair of teenage settlers at the Havat Gilad outpost in the West Bank doing what Israeli settlers do best: building and re-building houses without a permit.
Simon Ostrovsky
6.27.12
The Cute Show!

Sugar Gliders!
This might be the cutest Cute Show yet. We would literally punt a baby out the window if it was standing between us and these cuddly little guys.
Annette Lamothe-Ramos
6.27.12
Music

Take a Stroll... with Rob Delaney - High on Fire
Dear Matt Pike, you are a filthy animal teaching scumbags like me about NOISE. So you want to drink booze? Tough shit. We need your sonic warfare more than you need a particular beverage.
Rob Delaney
6.27.12
The Creators Project

Meet Tanlines
Brooklyn-based electronic duo Tanlines, aka Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm, believe that good music and art come out of friendship.
The Creators Project
6.27.12
Stuff

Waste Coast: The Ultimate West Coast Tribute
Cue that rap song about California that everyone likes to sing along to that I don’t know the words to.
Mish Way
6.27.12
Stuff

Naked Short Selling is Real – And It’s Fucking Up Our Economy
It’s effectively electronic counterfeiting.
Ben Makuch
6.27.12
The Fiction Issue 2012

Fan Fiction Is for Fuckfaces
Here is a sampling of my favorite top-ranked fan fiction stories, which your aunt will soon be secretly masturbating to.
Mitchell Sunderland
6.27.12
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