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Real Cadavers Used as Crash Test Dummies
Image by Flickr user Scribbling of Night Crash test dummies are an almost ubiquitous part of the films that various consumer safety institutes like to show us in order to briefly inspire panic and safe driving before we all remember that “The Fast and The Furious” was so [...]
Continue reading...13. May 2008
China Earthquake: News Gets Grimmer by the Hour
Image via bbc One has to wonder what exactly Asia has done to anger the violent Old Testament God recently, as the damage from Cyclone Nargis and now the 7.8 magnitude earthquake striking China have left the continent stretched to the breaking point.
Continue reading...12. May 2008
The 2008 Olympic Legacy. Blackouts and $5 Gas
Image from Fuseman There’s been “much ado” about China this year: the Beijing torch has been met with protests nearly everywhere it toured, and politicians have toyed with the idea of treating the games as a referendum on the human rights violations within the emerging superpower.
Continue reading...12. May 2008
Is Kansas The New Saudi Arabia?
Image from Peter Pi No we don’t mean that the citizens of the state will be under the rule of princes and will take camels to work. That would be hilarious, but no. Our comparison is of utilities and in particular, energy.
Continue reading...8. May 2008
Hypocrisy 101: A Brief Review Of Hurricane Katrina
Image from josh Miller As the death toll from the terrible cyclone that struck Myanmar climbs past 100,000, I keep thinking of the press conference that was held at the White House on Monday. First Lady Laura Bush, who from what we can tell is a fairly [...]
Continue reading...7. May 2008
Beslan About to Plunge Into Darkness Again
Image by Michael Mistretta Some people just can’t catch a break in life. Beslan, a city in North Ossetia, was the victim of the worst terrorist incident in Russian history in 2004 when Chechen separatists attacked the city’s largest school. Now though, it’s facing an entirely different challenge, [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2008
USA’s Secret Ivory Black Market Second Largest in the World
Crisis of conscience may be closer than it appears. Image from exfordy
Continue reading...6. May 2008
The Ozone Hole Is On Ebay?
Image from Ebay Ebay has had a lot of strange items on it over the years–I’ve seen a man’s soul in a jar, the rights to tattoo an ad on somebody’s forehead, even a creepily nondescript posting labeled “my virginity.” This however, might be both the strangest abstract [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2008
Myanmar Gets Leveled By Cyclone
Images of Myanmar before (above) and after (below) (modified from Wikimedia Commons and AFP) Environmental Graffiti is, of course, the site for environmentalists who don’t take themselves too seriously. Aside from going on at PETA every once in a while, we’re happy to spread urban legends and make [...]
Continue reading...5. May 2008
PETA Says Horseracing = Dog Fighting. They’re Wrong.
Image from Wikimedia Commons Anybody that saw the Kentucky Derby Saturday was treated to a spectacular race, and then immediately robbed of that memory with one of the most heartbreaking sights in racing. Eight Belles, the first filly running in the race since 1996, which having just turned [...]
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14. May 2008
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