Search results

Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the postwar world has produced. Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil, empathy and compassion are irrational and...

Top 5 lists Pretty simple This is going to be a recurring opportunity for people in this forum to offer a list of their Top 5 films or things related to a film within a certain genera or subject (ex. Top 5 Gangster Movies, Top 5 Performances by a Rapper, Top 5 De Niro scenes, Top 5 Space...

NBC's Thursday night lineup—Community, 30 Rock, The Office, Up All Night, and Parks and Recreation—is hilarious. Why is no one watching? Community returns to NBC's Thursday night lineup this week, and all is right again with the (TV) world. When the network unceremoniously pulled the quirky...

Some products of popular culture become unassailable parts of the canon (think Citizen Kane or The Wire); others develop more dubious reputations. In Down Is Up, The A.V. Club attempts to explain why it isn’t entirely crazy to go against conventional wisdom. Sandwiched between the...

What if democracy is just an illusion? In the US, the dominant political discourse consists of ideas put forth by the ruling class. New Haven, CT - Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he nevertheless understood the country, because he understood capitalism. As you know, there's...

Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012 The video qualifies as irresponsible advocacy by prompting militarisation and detracting from Uganda's real problems. Kampala, Uganda - From Kampala, the Kony 2012 hysteria was easy to miss. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I don't watch YouTube...

The Great 8 are embarking on an 8-city Westcoast tour starting at the end of March. Buckshot, Sean Price & Rock of Heltah Skeltah, Smif N Wessun & O.G.C. are excited to bring their high-energy set to the West. The group is also discussing a new album, that could be ready by late Fall 2012...

Cuts Of Beef Explained Beef clod: cheap cut of beef from shoulder region of the cattle Beef shank: taken from the leg or shank of the cow this meat can be tough, stringy and dry but is very lean . Used for low fat ground beef or mince . It is also common in soup stocks and can be very cheap...

0-300km/ph Bugatti Veyron = 19.7 sec Porsche Panamera = 40.7 sec Pescarolo Le Mans prototype race car = 15.9 sec Lotus Renault GP F1 = . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2KMqvxQnDA&feature=g-vrec&context=G23cf07eRVAAAAAAAAAw

Even hit the jet dryer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMYknUwHkpk&feature=youtu.be

http://wikileaks.ch/gifiles/docs/5512760_-ct-mexico-hippy-bombers-.html On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and...

Why humans are not naturally nasty and more likely to be kind than cruel By Julian Gavaghan Study 'debunks myth' that morality is modern idea It was long assumed prehistoric man was brutish and – away from this state of nature - his modern equivalent had only a veneer of morality. Yet new...

Oakland Police Shoot Oscar Grant’s Cousin http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/oakland_police_shoot_cousin_of_oscar_grant.html Over the weekend Oakland Police seriously injured 24-year-old Tony Jones after they shot him in the back. Jones’ mother says he is a cousin of Oscar Grant — the...

Oakland Police Shoot Oscar Grant’s Cousin http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/02/oakland_police_shoot_cousin_of_oscar_grant.html Over the weekend Oakland Police seriously injured 24-year-old Tony Jones after they shot him in the back. Jones’ mother says he is a cousin of Oscar Grant — the...

Cop flash bang'd Scott Olsen & rescuers IDed as Sergent who's killed 3 while on duty Cop Identified in Scott Olsen Incident? Video and police records indicate that Oakland Police Officer Robert Roche threw a stun grenade at protesters trying to help the injured Iraq War vet. By Ali Winston...

Cop flash bang'd Scott Olsen & rescuers IDed as Sergent who's killed 3 while on duty Cop Identified in Scott Olsen Incident? Video and police records indicate that Oakland Police Officer Robert Roche threw a stun grenade at protesters trying to help the injured Iraq War vet. By Ali Winston...

The Mobility Myth Why everyone overestimates American equality of opportunity. http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/100516/inequality-mobility-economy-america-recession-divergence?page=0,0&passthru=NjY1NzJmOGJhMzZlNGYxZDJkOWE0YTVkYjU4NDZjNzg When Americans express indifference about...

Vermont inmates hide pig in official police car decal Inmates working at a Vermont correctional unit's print shop managed to sneak a prank image of a pig into a state police crest that is emblazoned on police cars, and 30 cruisers sported the design for the last year, officials said on...

I don't really have any major problems with the new version. My main beef is that old content, which apparently a lot of time and resources was spent saving, is not searchable. For example, if a repost is made in a forum I moderate I commonly merge the repost with the og thread. As it stands...