By Josh Fatzick Amazon is joining other big retailers, like Walmart and Sears, that announced they will ban sales of the Confederate flag, and other flag-related items from their shelves, despite the fact that sales appear to be booming on the website. TIME Deputy Tech Editor Alex Fitzpatrick reported that the online retail giant will ban all…
By: Laura Meyers Skinny jeans may seem like all fun and games until they cut off your circulation. Or until your boyfriend starts wearing them. Yuck. Recently a woman in Australia had to be cut out of her skinny jeans after suffering from compartment syndrome, a painful and potentially serious condition caused by bleeding or…
By Blake Neff Published: June 23, 2015 In the past week, a Baltimore woman has captured headlines, and over $40,000 in donations, over her claim that a Christian neighbor anonymously attacked her “relentlessly gay” yard decorations. But circumstantial evidence exists that suggests the incident could be a hoax to defraud people of their money. The story,…
Editor of Rare news magazine Jack Hunter appeared on CNN this morning to argue in favor of the removal of the Confederate flag from the state grounds in South Carolina. Famous for having formerly been known as the “Southern Avenger,” Hunter issued his mea culpa initially in a column on the Daily Beast, and described…
By Josh Fatzick After a long battle with the city council over funding, The Metropolitan Police Department is now going ahead with its plan to issue body cameras to officers throughout the city. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said in an email that the department will start by deploying 400 cameras to the fifth and seventh police districts….
By: Laura Meyers In a new report released by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researches say that now more Americans are obese as opposed to simply overweight. In other words, we’re a bunch of fatties. Based on a data collection between 2007 and 2012, as part of the NAtional Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researches tallied…
Thanks to Steven Crowder for pointing this out. Our favorite TV show host and capitalist hero Mike Rowe had a quote of his posted online that caused an enormous controversy. Rowe said: “we’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means…
By Blake Neff The Islamic State (IS) has released a new video showing a series of executions aiming to reach new heights of depravity, with men drowned in a cage and and beheaded by explosive necklaces. The seven-minute video, which surfaced Tuesday, shows several different executions of men IS accuses of being spies. Most notably, one execution shows…
By: Laura Meyers On CNN, Pat Hines, the chairman of the South Carolina League of the South, defended the confederate flag, and suggested that any motive to remove it from the state’s capital grounds would be “cultural genocide.” Whoops. In his defense and judging by his neckbeard, it looks like CNN probably found their guest by checking out…
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