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In Retaliation for Map of Gun Permit Holders, Blogger Lists Names and...
In response to the controversy surrounding the interactive map of local gun permit holders published by a Lower Hudson Valley newspaper, one blogger decided to punish the paper's staff members by...
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Nobody Can Time the Stock Market, Vol. 220
Ever since the New York Stock Exchange was founded in 1792 amid the horse poop and scurvy of lower Manhattan, Ye Olde Stocke Prognosticationists have stood ready to predict how stocks would to in each...
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New Year's Absolutions: An Exercise in Unburdening Guilt Before 2013
All of us have had moments in our lives that we wish we could do over, incidents from our past that gnaw at us in spite of our best attempts at repressing them - or sometimes, erasing them altogether -...
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Dear Uncle Jimmy, We Will Never Ever Know I Love You
This is the first installment of New Year's Absolutions, an exercise in unburdening guilt before 2013. Dear Uncle Jimmy, As a black boy growing up in Mississippi, I learned that there was a rickety...
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Those We Lost in 2012: the Beached Whale
In August, a finback whale that curled up to die on a shore in the Hamptons was buried in the sand; in 1964, a whale found in the Hudson, off of 79th street, was towed out to sea and detonated with 500...
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Helicopter Parents from Hell Ordered by Court to Quit Stalking Their Daughter
A 21-year-old college student has convinced a Cincinnati court to grant her a stalking order against her parents whom she claims have been following her around and monitoring her every move since she...
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The Story Behind the Stories You Loved This Year: Rev. Snider's Speech on...
What happens behind the scenes at Gawker? We know you ask yourselves this question every single hour of every single day, and we don't blame you. We are fascinating. Sometimes we order sandwiches for...
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Sister of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Has Hard Time Convincing Reddit of...
A person claiming to be the sister of slain Sandy Hook shooting victim Rachel D'Avino posted a photo to Reddit this morning of what she said was "[Rachel's] seat at the table for Christmas dinner."...
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George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care, 'Surrounded By Family,' Doctors...
George H.W. Bush is in intensive care at a Houston hospital thanks to a lingering fever relating to bronchitis. He's been there since before Christmas, and the fever has gotten worse, but he's "alert...
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The Django Moment; or, When Should White People Laugh in Django Unchained?
Beware some SPOILERS in this piece. To paraphrase Oprah, call it a "Django Moment." This is the moment when, while watching Quentin Tarantino's campy new slave-revenge movie, a person of color begins...
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Are You an Above-Average Book Reader?
When there's nothing else to feel proud of, at least you can tell yourself, "Hey, I am an above-average American book reader, god damn it." Are you? Here are the latest stats, from the Pew Research...
View Article2012: Bad Year for News, Great Year for Local News Bloopers
Boy oh boy, what a crummy year, huh? A quick glance at the Wikipedia rundown of all the biggest news events of the year confirms that absolutely nothing good came of 2012. That's not to say the news...
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The Story Behind the Stories You Loved This Year: Unmasking Reddit’s...
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Letter Allegedly Penned by Chinese Labor Camp Prisoner Found Inside Box of...
After a year in storage, Portland resident Julie Keith unpacked a box of Halloween decorations she bought at Kmart only to find what she claims is an authentic letter penned by a Chinese labor camp...
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The Grierson & Leitch Best Films of 2012: Nos. 10-6
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Yesterday, we each gave our five worst movies of 2012. Today, we each count down...
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Racist Homeowner Claims His Effigy of President Obama Eating Watermelon Isn't...
Confronted about his life-size statue of President Obama eating a watermelon, Danny Hafley of Kentucky denied any racial motivation. "The way I look at it, it's freedom of speech," the Casey County...
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Aside From Dating Lots of Boys, What Did Taylor Swift Do in 2012?: The Year...
It's strange that in a year when the two biggest pop music stories dealt with the renaissances that R&B and dance music are undergoing, we lost icons from those respective genres: Whitney Houston...
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Indian Teen Who Was Gang-Raped Commits Suicide After Police Refuse to...
In mid-November in India, an unnamed 17-year-old girl was gang-raped in the Patiala region in the Punjab. She had reportedly spent much of December begging and badgering the police to take the case...
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Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, American Military Legend, Dies at 78
Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, pictured above with George H.W. Bush, died on Thursday in Tampa, according to the AP. Schwarzkopf is one of the major American military figures of the 20th century,...
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LAPD Gun Buyback Nets 1,962 Guns (Oh, and TWO ROCKET LAUNCHERS)
Here's a general idea of how many weapons are just floating around this country right now. The LAPD held a gun buyback in Los Angeles on Wednesday (the image above is from a buyback in Bridgeport,...
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