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On Thursday, former reality television personality turned Family Research Council executive director Josh Duggar resigned his position at the organization after admitting to sexually molesting several underage teenage girls 12 years ago, some of whom may have been his sisters. Duggar had been previously featured on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting, about a wholesome Christian family with many children. In Touch…
“On a plate.” A short animated story. Hitting a little too close to home – Album on Imgur.
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cache hit 1364:single/related:6abeb56ae84d2f5321c752d6aa1700a7 empty On Wednesday, a Canadian 17-year-old pleaded guilty to 23 charges relating to swatting calls and other false police reports, many of which had targeted his online opponents in the video game League of Legends.According to a lengthy report by Canadian publication Tri-City News, the prosecution’s case against the Coquitlam, British Columbia teenager asserted that…
At this point, I should be used to seeing backlash against Emma Sulkowicz, but I still wasn’t fully prepared for what came this week: endless tittering of people around me in real life and in my social feeds saying they “weren’t sure” about Emma’s choice to carry her mattress to Columbia’s graduation; the insistence that…
Florida’s brilliant legislature was in such a rush to get tough on sexxxy teens sending hawt newd pix to one another that they forgot to make their law enforceable in court. Oops! Earlier this week, the Fourth District Court of Appeals told the not-so-smart smarty-pantses in Tallahassee that yup, they done wrote them a law…
NPR publishes Holy Grail of corrections by Benjamin Mullin Published May 21, 2015 3:43 pm Updated May 21, 2015 3:50 pm NPR Since I started on this beat nearly a year ago, I’ve seen a lot of corrections. Some are funny, some are morbid, and some seem obvious in retrospect. But NPR on Thursday published…
Call from Oklahoma: I don’t know what’s going on in this world right now. Obama’s a Muslim and that’s all I’ve got to say. C-SPAN’s Steve Scully: Obama is not a Muslim, but thank you for making your comment. Call from Michigan: We need to get rid of every Muslim out of the country [sic],…
Read This: An in-doof look at the man behind Mad Max’s Doof Warrior May 21, 2015 12:43 PM One of the very first clues as to what exactly you’re in for with Mad Max: Fury Road is when the camera centers on a masked man bouncing around on bungee cords shredding guitar from the top…
(Courtesy of the Gagosian) Right now, at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, you can purchase someone’s Instagram photo for around $100,000. The money won’t go to the photographer, however, it will go to “artist” Richard Prince, who has blown up and made prints of other people’s Instagram photos for his exhibit, “New Portraits.” The…