good-ideas
Jason Parham · 11/05/15 01:22PM
Liverpool recently introduced fast-walking pedestrian lanes in its city centre, an action supported by 69 percent of 16 to 24-year-old residents, research found. “But life is about the path, not the destination,” you say. Incorrect, sir. Now get out of my way, I’m late for an appointment.
Halloween Question: What Should We Do About All of These Corpses?
Kelly Conaboy · 10/30/15 02:51PMTom Scocca · 10/13/14 01:51PM
Should Massachusetts secede from Eastern Time to get away from its soul-killing 4:11 p.m. sunsets? Yes, of course it should. As should New York.
Social Impact Bonds: The Opposite of Private Prisons
Hamilton Nolan · 09/24/14 02:08PM
One of the reasons that the private prison industry is one of the most disgusting manifestations of capitalism is that it creates an economic incentive to imprison more people. What if we did... the opposite of that?
Recasting Gilmore Girls for the Highly Anticipated, Hypothetical Movie
Kelly Conaboy · 08/20/14 12:35PMJust Give Weird Al the Super Bowl Halftime Show Already
Jay Hathaway · 08/07/14 01:09PMThe periodic calls for a Super Bowl Halftime show featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic are louder than ever this year, with a petition picking up nearly 65,000 signatures in a day, and still rising. 65,000 Weird Al fans could be wrong, but they're not. This is a pretty good idea.
Adam Weinstein · 07/07/14 11:28AM
BBC is instructing its editors and producers to stop striving for "false balance" by booking so many anti-science and climate-denying commentators. "Audiences should be able to understand from the context and clarity of the BBC's output what weight to give to critical voices," a company report stated.
Adam Weinstein · 07/03/14 09:50AM
Germany's lower house, with support from "conservative" Chancellor Angela Merkel, has approved the nation's first-ever minimum wage. The baseline pay rate will be 8.50 Euros an hour, roughly $11.56 today, 59 percent higher than the United States' federal minimum wage.
Adam Weinstein · 06/25/14 12:36PM
Sarah Palin-endorsed candidates are losing primaries, so maybe Sarah Palin will leave the Republican Party. "If Republicans are going to act like Democrats, what's the use in getting all gung ho about getting other Republicans in there?" she tells Sean Hannity. Yes. Yes.
Newspaper Tweets Picture of Afghan Aid Worker's Fleshlight
Adam Weinstein · 06/11/14 01:47PMAmericans Are Big Believers In Science, If You Ignore the Tea Partiers
Adam Weinstein · 06/02/14 03:00PMAdam Weinstein · 05/27/14 03:15PM
Ever determined to be relevant, racist separatist cattle rancher Cliven Bundy has announced he's leaving the Republican Party to join the Independent American Party, which recently endorsed a "wackaloon" conspiracy theorist and Sandy Hook truther.
The FBI Is Desperately Looking to Hire Stoners With Hacking Skills
Adam Weinstein · 05/21/14 02:35PMAdam Weinstein · 05/16/14 02:39PM
Selected Air Force members, men and women, will be able to take three years off from the military to start families, a mirror of a recent pilot program by the Navy. It's a pretty novel idea. Almost as novel as paid parental leave, but not quite.
Cliven Bundy Wisely Decides Not to Sue the Feds for Not Arresting Him
Adam Weinstein · 05/13/14 03:03PMRacist cattle rustler, impressionist historian and de facto warlord Cliven Bundy emailed his faithful disciples this afternoon to inform them that even though the federal government is evil and terrible, they won't be suing the feds for not shooting him, because of some incoherent reasons:
Adam Weinstein · 05/05/14 12:07PM
Wisconsin Republicans voted down a proposal at their annual convention Monday that would have affirmed the state's "sovereign right" to secede from the United States. Now they can all go back to being the party of Lincoln, right?
Hog-Castrating Senate Hopeful Runs New Ad on Her Love of Guns, Leather
Adam Weinstein · 05/05/14 10:11AMThere's only one Republican candidate running for Senate in Iowa who has Sarah Palin's endorsement, and also loves to cut the testicles off of squealing pigs with her own two hands. But that doesn't seem like enough for you America, so fine, here she is shooting stuff and wearing chaps.
Adam Weinstein · 04/30/14 03:17PM
A Scientific American editor who went on Fox News and tried to discuss climate change today found the experience to be "not something that I wanted to be a part of in the future." The station also apparently tried to remove video of his appearance from its website, but thought better of it.
Adam Weinstein · 04/15/14 08:59AM
Annual nudist jamboree for Gen Y-ers. In Florida, obvs. No job? No clothes? No problem. (Video link SFW, although there is one old hippie naturist dude.)