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Crazy Conservatives Are Sure a Gitmo Detainee Killed James Foley
Adam Weinstein · 08/22/14 09:42AMJames Foley was courageous, and his murder by an apparently English-accented zealot of the Syria-based Islamic State was so horrific that no simple narrative can do it justice. Unless, that is, you're a conservative political opportunist of a special sort, eager to pin the crime on liberal policies.
This Israeli Government Account Is Tweeting Out Bullshit Graphic Pics
Adam Weinstein · 07/31/14 03:05PMIs Israel Really as Good at Shooting Down Rockets as it Claims?
Adam Weinstein · 07/21/14 12:50PMNo, Creatine Did Not Make Elliot Rodger Kill People
Hamilton Nolan · 05/28/14 08:19AMThe Famous Pro-Gun "Quotes" the Founding Fathers Never Actually Said
Adam Weinstein · 04/28/14 10:20AMThis Chart of U.S. Vets' Postwar Killings Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
Adam Weinstein · 04/08/14 02:46PMRon Paulies Are Batshit Conspiracy Theorists, Chapter 794
Adam Weinstein · 03/26/14 01:44PMRon Paul and his think tank don't want the U.S. to get embroiled in an overseas war with Russia over its recent annexation of Crimea. That's reasonable. Ron Paul and his think tank suggest that Russia didn't even invade Crimea, really. That's self-blindered hysterical conspiracy theorizin' bull semen.
New Awesome Conspiracy Theory: Obama Giving Away the Internet to China
Adam Weinstein · 03/18/14 10:15AMDid the "Craigslist Murderers" Kill 22 People for a Satanic Cult?
Adam Weinstein · 02/17/14 04:41PMJFK’s Grandson Is, Unfortunately, Not Gay
J.K. Trotter · 02/13/14 03:50PMGay-themed website Queerty reports that Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of President John F. Kennedy and a junior at Yale, came out as gay in an essay for the Yale Herald before the paper’s editors mysteriously deleted his column and his Twitter account disappeared. Unfortunately for Camelot, the essay—and the Twitter account—are fake.
The Whole Bible Thing Is B.S. Because of Camel Bones, Says Science
Adam Weinstein · 02/06/14 05:04PMFive More Myths About Jesus
Hamilton Nolan · 09/27/13 12:44PMCould the U.S. Have Assassinated Hugo Chavez Using Cancer?
Hamilton Nolan · 03/08/13 10:10AMVenezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who for many years took great glee in voicing anti-American sentiments, died this week at the age of 58, following a long battle with "an unspecified cancer in the pelvic region." Just before he died, Venezuelan vice president Nicholas Maduro ejected two U.S. diplomats from the country and vaguely charged them with infecting Chavez with cancer, saying he was "attacked with this illness."
Unionmade: Retailer of Expensive Fashions That Are Not Union Made
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/12 11:50AMUnionmade is an upscale men's clothing store, based in San Francisco and celebrated by GQ, that sells $258 "Vintage Styled Work Shirts" and $68 Cow Horn Combs and $565 "Vintage" Levi Jeans, and things of that nature. The company says that it "aims to improve the lives of our customers, community and suppliers by offering fairly priced products made from the best available materials." You might want to know, however, that Unionmade's products are not union made.
Yes, Women Can Do Pull-Ups
Hamilton Nolan · 10/25/12 03:15PMNutella Is Not a Real Breakfast
Hamilton Nolan · 10/08/12 08:56AMResidents of America: have you been approached by a friendly-looking man offering you free sweets from the back of a truck? Beware! This is not just any garden variety perv; it is a European perv, trying to corrupt our youth—by convincing them that "Nutella" is an acceptable breakfast item. It is not.
Bane Creator Chuck Dixon: Limbaugh's Batman Conspiracy Theory 'Ridiculous' — I'm a Staunch Conservative
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/18/12 01:48PMMaking an unplanned phone call into the nationally syndicated radio program Schnitt Show yesterday, comic book writer Chuck Dixon, co-creator of the character Bane, refuted claims made by Rush Limbaugh that the homophonic similarities between the Batman villain and Mitt Romney's financial services company Bain suggest a liberal conspiracy to smear the presidential candidate.
Relax, They're Still Making Typewriters
Seth Abramovitch · 04/26/11 01:37AM'What's the Single Best Exercise?': A Retort
Hamilton Nolan · 04/15/11 10:41AMNever, ever, take fitness advice from the New York Times. We've made this point before. They're always spouting off about getting "thin" with some sort of limp-wristed jogging workout. In neon shorts. In Central Park. When you're not skiing, in Aspen, and then reading the New York Times by a roaring fire, in a resort, sipping on probably some nice Earl Grey, not even thinking about Muscle Milk at all.