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Awful - Modeling Scouts Recruit at Eating Disorder Clinic
- Published_at:2013-04-20
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:TheYoungTurks
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- description: "Because skinny is more important than healthy, some modeling scouts in Sweden have taken to hanging around outside of eating disorder clinics to find new models. Yes, I'll say that again: modeling scouts are approaching girls — some of them too weak...
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Poodle Scam? Ferrets on Steroids Disguised as Dogs
- Published_at:2013-04-09
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "Apparently Argentinian bazaar salesmen are passing off ferrets on steroids as toy poodles -- and people believe them. A local news report out of Buenos Aires caught the attention of the Daily Mail and other sites this week, after a man took the "toy...
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Rejected College Student Blames Everyone in Ridiculous Letter
- Published_at:2013-04-06
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "Have you ever wanted to tell off the colleges that sent you rejection letters and prevented your post-high school dreams from coming true? That's exactly what Suzy Lee Weiss did... in a very public way. The senior from Taylor Allderdice High School...
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Childless Adults Aren't 'Selfish'
- Published_at:2013-03-30
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- description: "In 2008, Nebraska decriminalized child abandonment. The move was part of a "safe haven" law designed to address increased rates of infanticide in the state. Like other safe haven laws, parents in Nebraska who felt unprepared to care for their babies...
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Jim Carrey's 'Cold Dead Hand' Song Pisses Off Fox News Gun Nuts
- Published_at:2013-03-27
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "In a new video released today by FunnyorDie.com, comedian Jim Carrey appears as Charlton Heston in a parody of the country music/comedy show 'Hee Haw.' As Heston, Carrey talks about UFOs and then introduces the country act 'Lonesome Earl And The...
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'The First Tablet For Women' - As Sexist as it Sounds?
- Published_at:2013-03-24
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "Are tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire too masculine and intimidating for you? Never fear, the Dubai-based Eurostar Group has an answer to your problem: the ePad Femme, a tablet for women. Casey Johnston at ars technica reported that the tablet...
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Man Forgotten in Solitary Confinement For Years
- Published_at:2013-03-16
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "A southern New Mexico county announced Tuesday that it reached a $15.5 million settlement to end the legal battle over the case of a man who was held in solitary confinement for two years without a trial and was so neglected that he took out his own...
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Hilarious 'Anti-Gay' Parody Ad
- Published_at:2013-03-11
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "We've heard it all before: Gay marriage will ruin the institution and sanctity of marriage, right? So in an effort to "keep straight couples from getting divorced and hating their children," check out this hilarious video from "the coalition of...
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Student's 'Why I'd Hate to Be Asian' Video & Weaksauce Response
- Published_at:2013-03-08
- Category:News & Politics
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- description: "Samuel H. made a video on Facebook titled "Why I'd Hate To Be Asian (Totally Not Racist)," though it totally might be. May I begin. Ahem, "Why I'd Hate to be Asian by Samuel H.," this is totally not racist. But really, it's everything you expect it...
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Potato Parties Get Kids Kicked Out
- Published_at:2013-03-03
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- description: "Ever wonder what $250 worth of McDonald's french fries looks like? Great news. Thanks to a bunch of kids in South Korea, you can stop wondering. A sale on fries at the fast food chain inspired a group of kids to order a ridiculous amount of them,...
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Horse Meat Found in Ikea Meatballs
- Published_at:2013-02-26
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- description: "Europe's horsemeat scandal has claimed Ikea meatballs, those mysteriously cheap, lingonberry-sauced snacks that have gained something of a cult following among fans of the furniture store. On Monday, Ikea withdrew bags of the meatballs from 21...
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Michelle Obama Photoshopped in Iran
- Published_at:2013-02-26
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- description: "An Iranian news agency altered a photograph of Michelle Obama presenting an award at the Oscars Sunday night to fit the country's guidelines for showing images of women in the media. Michelle Obama surprised everyone when she appeared live from the...
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'World's Worst Portrait Tattoo' Fixed!
- Published_at:2013-02-23
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- description: "A man in search of a remedy for his horrible tattoo finally found the man for the job. The unidentified man's body art has been declared the "world's worst portrait tattoo" by the numerous people who shared the picture of the piece on the Internets...
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Do Monkeys Understand Unequal Pay? (Video)
- Published_at:2013-02-21
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- description: "We don't expect animals to understand human "inventions" like economics. Pay scale, income inequality, surely these are concepts too advanced for lower species to process. Or are they? The above video, part of a TED talk given by Emory University's...
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The Gay Minority - How Many Americans Are Gay?
- Published_at:2013-02-20
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- description: " After years of wild guess and flawed estimations, Gallup has attempted to get some hard data on just how many gay, lesbian, and bisexual people there are in America. So how good are their are numbers? The polling company took state-by-state surveys...
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Exec Slaps Toddler, 'Shut That (N-word) Baby Up'
- Published_at:2013-02-19
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- description: "A recent Delta Air Lines flight turned sour when a 60-year-old passenger allegedly struck a crying toddler, the Smoking Gun first reported. Joe Rickey Hundley, accused of slapping another passenger's 2-year-old boy, is facing federal assault...
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Russian Meteor Blast Injures Over 1,000 (Video)
- Published_at:2013-02-16
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- description: "A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1,200 people. People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard...
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Horrifying Illegal Butt Injections Lead to Arrest
- Published_at:2013-02-14
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- description: "For the second time in less than a month, a Florida man has been arrested and charged with performing illegal butt enhancements. Calvin Butler, 44, was first arrested at a West Palm Beach hotel on Jan. 18 after allegedly planning to use the room to...
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WBC Founder's Granddaughters Abandon Church
- Published_at:2013-02-08
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- description: "For all of her adult life and much of her childhood, Megan Phelps-Roper picketed funerals, condemned gays, and said she earnestly believed that most Americans were destined for hell. But on Wednesday, the 27-year-old granddaughter of Westboro...
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Disaster - Face Tattoo After First Date
- Published_at:2013-02-07
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- description: "Is this the face of true love? A Russian college graduate is drawing stares after allowing her new boyfriend to tattoo his name on her face -- the day they met in person. According to British tabloid The Sun, Lesya Toumaniantz allowed her beau,...
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Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker Saves Woman from Racist Rampage
- Published_at:2013-02-06
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- description: "So, here's the thing: A man drove down the street in Fresno the other day, declared himself to be Jesus Christ, began shouting the n-word, drove his car into a black electric company worker and pinned him against his truck, jumped out and started...
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GoDaddy's Gross Super Bowl Ad
- Published_at:2013-02-05
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- description: "GoDaddy made quite the impression during the Super Bowl. Whether that impression was good or bad, well, that's up for debate. The veteran Super Bowl advertiser provoked strong reactions with its extreme close-up of model Bar Refaeli making out with...
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Ana's Challenge - Women Can Lift Men in Combat
- Published_at:2013-02-03
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- description: "One of the recurring arguments against women serving in combat appears on its face to be just good common horse sense: women just don't have the upper body strength to carry a heavy male soldier out of combat. The thing is, you don't need much upper...
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Women's Gun Advocate's Hilariously Hypocritical Testimony
- Published_at:2013-01-31
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- description: "Gayle Trotter, the conservative activist who became the breakout star of Wednesday's gun violence hearing in the Senate with her adamant cry that women need assault rifles to defend themselves, wrote last year that she opposed the Violence Against...
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HUGE Oil Deposit In Australia?
- Published_at:2013-01-24
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- description: " Australian resources firm Linc Energy said it had uncovered a huge oil deposit in the nation's vast outback in a discovery hailed Thursday by officials as worth some Aus$20 trillion (US$21 trillion). Linc said two independent reviews of its three...
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Aaron Swartz, Wikileaks, & Senator John Cornyn
- Published_at:2013-01-23
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- description: "Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) sent a sharply worded letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday questioning the Department of Justice's prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead of a suspected suicide last week after...
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Ontario Phases Out Coal, First in North America to Do So
- Published_at:2013-01-21
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- description: "By the end of the year, Ontario will become the first jurisdiction in North America to shut down almost its entire coal fleet. Yesterday, the province announced that its last two large coal units will close before 2014, making more than 99 percent...
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Old Man O'Reilly Rages Against the Evil Machine
- Published_at:2013-01-19
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- description: "Unless you've been living under a rock or don't really pay that much attention to sports news, you may have heard about college football player Manti Te'o's brewing scandal involving a fake dead girlfriend that he may or may not have been in on. Te'o...
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NRA Targets Sasha, Malia...and Cenk!?
- Published_at:2013-01-17
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- description: "First: on the merits, the NRA's idea to place armed guards in every American school is a foolish one. Mass casualty shootings do not happen only in schools, as the phrase "going postal" should remind us. Moreoever, as Steven Strauss has argued, even...
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Deaf Twin Brothers Voluntarily Euthanized
- Published_at:2013-01-16
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- description: "Identical twins were killed by Belgian doctors last month in a unique mercy killing under Belgium's euthanasia laws. The two men, 45, from the Antwerp region were both born deaf and sought euthanasia after finding that they would also soon go blind....
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